Story of a 2.5 day Open Space with an Aboriginal Organization

[Chris Corrigan]

Neat idea.....I'm a compulsive mind mapper myself.  I will think about that for
next time.

By the way, with respect to the report forms and "one less thing" I am
increasingly finding that the report forms that I provide are generally ignored
or used differently, or abused or generally not put to use for their intended
purpose.  Certainly the little boxes rarely get filled out.  All of this is an
absolute delight to me, as I love watching the "wall of scrawl" emerge if I'm
not using laptops.  There is somthing to be said for the neatness and
readability of typed reports, but nothing can replace the personaility of hand
written reports.

I think the "form" part is important because it helps to guide people's
discussions towards whatever we need from them, whether it is actions,
commitments, thoughts, recommendation, discussion or whatever.  But I love
seeing the way the report form gets stretched, coffee stained and crumpled.  It
LOOKS like work has been happening...!

"Doersam, Laurel" wrote:

> Hi Chris - wonderful story, as always!  I wanted to respond to your question
> about the reports not capturing the essence of the discussions, or being
> rather flat.  We've been fooling around with using mind-maps for the
> discussion summaries, and often these accompany the report.  The mind-maps
> are often pictorial and seem to resonate better than the very linear,
> sequential reports - often the groups use lots of colour and cool symbolism.
> In the opening circle, I generally invite the discussion groups to capture
> their discussion in whatever way seems best to represent what they talked
> about, and I do mention mind maps as an option to accompany their written
> report.  (We've done some work with this in our organization, so the concept
> is usually pretty familiar to people - of course, many people have young
> children who use this method all the time!)
>
> Laurel.
> Laurel Doersam
> Human Resource Consultant (Employee Wellness)
> Capital Health Region
>

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