ireland - friend seeking counsel on first open space

[john engle]

colleagues on OSLIST,

yesterday i received a message from a friend who plans to do an open space
meeting for the first time.

i got permission from him to put his questions and background info on this
list. he has joined the list in the event that there are among you people
willing to help him. i also will be responding to his invitation but am
clearly aware both the wisdom and experience of this group and the
limitations of my wisdom and experience.

patrick wrote:

John,

Greetings from Ireland. Just a note to say a quick hello and ask for
some advice.

Guess what- I am thinking of facilitating a one day meeting using open
space technology-  just to dive in and swim around in it and see what
happens. I know  very little to be honest but I am very open to its
spirit. I remember a workshop you did in Haiti and have got some
material from the  Openspaceworld web site.

The group is a group of community arts people in Northern Ireland and
the theme is to be ; Towards the sustainable development of Community
Arts in Northern Ireland;. Do you think a theme like this can work? A
few questions about the initial agenda setting. When you first ask
people to step forward and suggest a sub theme and write it down and
declare it to the group- is this put directly onto the space-time
matrix? Or onto another space until everyone has signed up to the
different workshops.

How do the convenors of each workshop decide/allocate how much time they
should book on the matrix? Should all the matrix spaces be filled
initially. Is it OK to pre-suggest  a few sub themes(in case no-one
steps forward !!)

Reporting etc: should the content of each  group session be written
completely up or just summarised ( on flip chart paper for example) as
each session progresses and then placed on a reporting/news wall?

Is a day normally long enough to do something meaningful?


patrick mcmanus

patrick.mcmanus at ireland.com




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