Michael -- I love you! Recovering Control Freak that you are!! And (for whatever it is worth) your suggestions to Thomas are right on, I believe. And...I do think he (Thomas) may be working a little too hard. Get the space, bring food/drink. The rest WILL happen ... Always does.
ho Winter Address 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-2093 Summer Address 189 Beaucauire Ave Camden, ME 04843 207 763-3261 Websites www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com -----Original Message----- From: OSList [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael M Pannwitz via OSList Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 6:01 AM To: Bhavesh Patel; World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] Time challenge - multiple short OSTs? (x-posted OS/GC-lists) Dear Thomas, there have been some situations similar in some ways to yours. This is what I experienced: --- the sponsor needs to do the inviting and be at the "Action Planning" or whatever it is called --- the invitation goes out to everyone but in the text it addresses especially those that have a "project" in mind --- the word "converge" is not helpful, it suffices to focus on the "projects" who might be anything but converging but maybe also a territory wide project --- projects go forward because someone or a group is simply hot on this (passions and responsibility), in other words there is not much benefit to get everyone to somehow participate in a "strategy" --- people will ask about a next meeting after the action planning and even suggest a space of time between the action planning and the next gathering to see how far things have gone and what is the next step --- of course, the sponsor should not create unnecessary barriers for the "Action Planning" session or whatever it is called, he/she/them is the best person/group on thinking up favorable conditions for meetings, good food should always be there (in German the invitation usually contains something like "für leckeres Essen und Trinken ist gesorgt") And I also observed, being a control freak such as you have never seen, that I need to focus on my "facilitation" role, primarily doing nothing and not thinking for the sponsor... The project you are on will be a huge success and go into the annals of Open Space Technology... you could also deposit it here > http://www.openspaceworldscape.org/ and add to the 787 events already documented there. Greetings from Berlin mmp On 25.09.2016 10:59, Bhavesh Patel via OSList wrote: > How long does it take " > > to travel across the community"? What supports the " > unwillingness"? If the fourth event was geographically in the middle of > the other three, and transport was provided, would that help, and maybe > dinner as well? > > If it is clear that the data from the first three OSTs will be carried > forward to the fourth, and that the fourth is more a sense-making > next-steps-making, would that support people to decide what they want to > do with the " > > unwillingness"? > > OR maybe the fourth meeting where " > > all are invited for convergence/action planning" is an assumption that > can be dropped? What if each OST was for the people who attend to take > action locally and that's it? Why does there need to be convergence and > some kind of meta-plan or central strategy? It is a usual myth we hold > about doing things here and there and then bringing them together! > > What if the fourth meeting is in 6 months or one year for the three > other OSTs to come together and share what happened? > > Just playing with ideas and it might be a bit late for that... > > > > > > On 24 September 2016 at 21:53, Thomas Herrmann > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > Thanks Bhavesh, I like your idea to keep it open to adjustments > depending on what happens in the meetings and also inbetween. ____ > > One small challenge is also that the reason for having three > occasions is that there is an > > > unwillingness > > > to travel across the community. So where are we going to have the > fourth?____ > > Cheers____ > > Thomas (doing some final preps for an OST training, starting on > Monday morning)____ > > __ __ > > *Från:*Bhavesh Patel [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] > *Skickat:* den 24 september 2016 18:56 > *Till:* Thomas Herrmann <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>; World wide Open Space > Technology email list <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > *Kopia:* GC list <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > *Ämne:* Re: [OSList] Time challenge - multiple short OSTs? (x-posted > OS/GC-lists)____ > > __ __ > > Hey Thomas,____ > > I like the 3 'openings' and my only suggestion would be to hold off > on the shape of the fourth meeting. It is definitely about > converging, but exactly how might reveal itself along the way.____ > > I love the idea that all the meetings are open and some may even > come only to the fourth meeting.____ > > __ __ > > Smiles Bhav... > > ____ > > __ __ > > On 16 September 2016 at 10:36, Thomas Herrmann via OSList > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:____ > > Dear friends in Open Space____ > > I write to share about an exciting project and to ask to have > feedback/ideas/experiences assisting me to refine/decide on the > design I am working on.____ > > ____ > > The project is in a neighbouring town of about 35 000 > inhabitants. They are inviting everyone living there to explore > ways to contribute to enhance the learning amongst > children/youth complementing/supporting what is happening in the > school. The top politician in the town, responsible for > education/schools is my sponsor. During the spring I had a > couple of meetings with the top politicians and managers for the > school system. Then we widened the circles and had some meetings > with other interest parties , to invite more engagement for this > idea. ____ > > ____ > > We have a plan that includes follow up, to support what is > emerging, decide on next steps and make sure there is report > back to what is happening and not.____ > > ____ > > A couple of days ago we had our “final” planning meeting > getting the theme etc. Still working on wording but something > like “For the future of our children. How do we create > conditions for enhanced learning for pupils in our community?” > Of practical reasons evenings are considered the best options. > Parents, pupils, teachers, business people, public workers etc > etc are all busy daytime and weekends are not considered a good > option. “Everyone” will be invited but it’s hard to say how many > will come to each meeting. I guess between 10-200 J____ > > Now the plan is to have three 3-hour meetings in three different > parts of the small community. I have suggested a fourth meeting > where > > > all are invited for convergence/action planning. There are of > course several challenges. I am not even sure I will suggest we > use OST even though I’d love to. I think a 3-hour meeting is the > bare minimum for the simplest form of an OST meeting. On the > other hand I see possibilities for this to be looked at like an > OST meeting consisting of three occasions á 3 hours + > convergence in a fourth meeting for another 3 hours… That looks > better, ey?____ > > ____ > > There are some opportunities with this:____ > > 1. More time for the divergent process before converging.____ > > 2. People can choose to join several meetings, deepening > their thinking____ > > 3. People can get access to more ideas/material from the 3 > meetings.____ > > 4. There can be continued conversations online in between > meetings and approaching meeting nbr 4.____ > > 5. There will be opportunities for people to create joint > projects over “boundaries” in the community (meeting nbr 4 and > online)____ > > ____ > > There are several challenges with this too. ____ > > 1. There will be different people in all of the meetings____ > > a. There needs to be a proper opening each time____ > > 2. 3 hours is very short. My plan: Opening/agenda 45 mts. > Session 1 (45 mts). Session 2 (45 mts). Individual > reflection/personal commitment (15 mts). Closing 30 mts.____ > > a. For the actionplanning meeting (meeting nbr 4) I will > probably use re-opening, after a brief opening and reading > reports/reflecting. A couple of action planning sessions, 1 > minute reportback/group and then closing.____ > > 3. How to bind everything together to one whole____ > > ____ > > So far I lean towards this plan but I would love to hear to your > ideas, thoughts, experiences and/or suggestions!____ > > All the best____ > > ____ > > Thomas Herrmann____ > > Open Space Consulting AB____ > > www.openspaceconsulting.com > <http://www.openspaceconsulting.com/>____ > > You reach us via phone: +46 (0)709 98 97 81 or email: > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> ____ > > ____ > > Open Space Consulting is a small company with BIG ambitions to > assist leaders and organizations as well as local communities to > tap into their full power to achieve their dreams. 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