Continuity of week-apart sessions?

[Fr Brian S Bainbridge]

For Doug German:
It was a school staff, starting up a new elementary school.
They wanted to check on how they were going and what matters they needed to be
giving priority.
They decided to use Open Space and this person to open the space.
Day one - about an hour and a half - ran well and, as Michael Pannwitz would
say, used straight Open Space.
Day two - I just put on the wall the material they had put on the wall,
exactly as it had been when we finished last week, including the topics that
had been dealt with.  The knew exactly where they were up to, and just went on
with it
Day three - exactly the same. Then we did a closing circle at the end of Day
three it was a Wednesday, too), and all were delighted.
We did the report as we went and they put those papers on the wall as well.
And that became the agenda for what the staff and the school worked on for the
following months.
A little later in the year, there was some difficulty with the Grade 5 kids,
and they used Open Space with the two classes and the children sorted out the
difficulties most easily and happily, to the amazement of the staff.  But
that's another story.
Maybe that will help your thinking a little, Doug.
Cheers and blessings,   BRIAN.


"Douglas D. Germann, Sr." wrote:

> To my good friends--
>
> Upcoming in about 3 weeks is a series of 3 public OSTs on the topic,
> "Influencing Senior Healthcare and Well-Being."
>
> The sessions will be on 3 consecutive Wednesdays.
>
> We are hoping for 40 or so people--seniors, care-givers (such as adult
> children of the seniors), physicians, nurses, technicians, nursing home
> people, senior apartment providers, pastors and others.
>
> Each session will be 3 hours, which will be two meeting periods for the
> individual groups.
>
> It is possible that we will have new people at each session.
>
> How would you establish continuity from one Wednesday's session to the
> next? Would you walk the circle each time, and explain the guidelines, law
> of two feet, butterflies and bumblebees, or do something different? Would
> you sub-theme each of the three days? Who has done something like this?
> Dave Koehler? Michael Herman? Others?
>
> Help!
>
>                               :-Doug. Germann
>
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