"Be prepared to be surprised" may not be as widely shared as the other famous OST phrases - but it sure helps facilitators as well as participants!
Jeff San Francisco On Thu, Jun 6, 2019, 9:37 AM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Christian, > > yes, it depends on many factors. You identified a number of them. > For those really interested in this aspect and passionate about > developing a tool, have a look at the list so far: > > 1--- number of participants > 2--- length of event > 3--- number of "planned" opportunities (evening announcements, morning news > 4--- degree of urgency (decision time of yesterday) > 5--- degree of complexity of the challenge > 6--- degree of confusion (degree of unknowing in regard to answers) > 7--- level of potential conflict > 8--- level of diversity among the participants > 9--- age of participants > 10-- productive framework (daylight, fresh and healthy food, fresh air, > a wonderful view into the surroundings, participants staying on-site > during the entire event... ) > --- > --- > --- > Some of these parameters can be arrived at in the registration process > (1, 8, 9) > Some are part of the design and overall site planning (2, 3, 10) > Some are part of the planning process (going through the prerequisites > for an OST event in the contact meeting with the sponsor... such as 4, > 5, 6, 7, 8). > > I know how to do a graph with 2 parameters... but there must be ways > with more parameters. A computer program, an algorithm. This might be > something an agile-ost-worker could work out. > > A few times I have also seen participants that would not post issues and > would not go to breakout session but just hung around and did the > butterfly. Dont we think that, systemically speaking, butterflies are > important "centers of inactivity" providing spaces for the unexpected. > Ok, how would that fit into a "formula"? > > Greetings from Berlin > mmp > > > > > > Am 06.06.2019 um 12:02 schrieb Dr. Christian Kemper: > > Am 06.06.19 um 01:10 schrieb Michael M Pannwitz via OSList: > > > >> I wonder what additional parameters other than than number of > >> participants and length of the event would have to be considered for a > >> more reliable tool to predict the number of issues to be expected at > >> an OST event. > > > > Hihi, Michael:-) > > > > As far as I experienced there is no rule or reliable answer to this > > question - it depends on so many factors (e.g. how urgent is the os, how > > complex the question, how unknown the answer, how conflictual the > > problem, how diverse the group and so on). > > > > But one thing I was able to see so often is that the younger the people > > are the more issues they raise. In open spaces with children there are > > sometimes as many issues as people participate, the maximum I saw was > > 1.3 issues per person (in a 1.5 day os with around 100 people). > > > > I also remember one girl who raised eleven issues in a three-day open > > space with six starting times. > > > > And i remember the boy, who negotiated his issue in the same open space > > over the whole time, again and again and supplemented and expanded it > > and finally probably negotiated with all 250 people right up to the > > action planning. It was: "Cocoa instead of milk in the breaks". At the > > next meeting he reported and justified with a broad chest and proudly > > that it was not implemented after he had gone through all school > > instances (and democracy learned from it). > > > > Sunny greetings to all of you! > > > > Christian > > > > -- > Michael M Pannwitz > Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany > ++49 - 30-772 8000 > [email protected] > > > Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 483 resident Open > Space Workers in 76 countries working in a total of 141 countries worldwide > www.openspaceworldmap.org > > At my publisher you find books and task cards on open space, most in > German, some in English, some as ebooks, some multilingual > https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Kommunikation > > -- > Michael M Pannwitz > Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany > ++49 - 30-772 8000 > [email protected] > > > Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 483 resident Open > Space Workers in 76 countries working in a total of 141 countries worldwide > www.openspaceworldmap.org > > At my publisher you find books and task cards on open space, most in > German, some in English, some as ebooks, some multilingual > https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Kommunikation > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >
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