Action marketplace

[Karen Sella]

Love it!  Thanks Chris.
 
 
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Karen Sella
Managing Partner
www.luminacoaching.com
206.780.2998
 
lumina fr. L., light, air, opening
 
 
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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris
Corrigan
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:41 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Action marketplace
 
In my continuing quest to find ways to support action coming out of OST
events, I put together a little thought for a client today which I
thought I'd share with you folks...

The conference we are doing is two days of talk and networking on Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome.  A couple of hundred people will be coming together to
discuss what they are doing and to find others interested in their work.
It is a learning conference with no expectation for anything concrete,
like a strategy opr a statement, but rather the importance is on
maximizing face time between practitioners.  Something like an OSonOS.

Some of the folks on the planning committee though want to support
action that does flow from the conference and they have asked for the
container to hold some energy and intention for this without the
conference becoming about 200 people trying to come up with one action
plan.  No need for prioritising or even a non-convergence type reopening
of the space.  I think this is a very real need and a very realistic
expectation.

So today we started playing with two ideas, one new and one old.  The
old one is to simply add to the small group summaries form a place for
people to record next steps.  The new idea is to create an action market
place next to the news wall.  This is no more complicated than a
community bulletin board, in that people can feel free to post any bits
and pieces of action that they want to invite others to join.  The
advantage of this system is that it allows a finer grain of action to
come forward, so for example, while there may be some conversations that
emerge in the event about what to do next, the action market place could
hold much smaller pieces that would otherwise be lost.  Action around a
follow up conference would stand alongside an invitation to join one or
two people in writing a new brochure, or meeting for coffee next week to
continue a conversation.  

I think this approach could work in all OST gatherings, and might even
be especially useful in gatherings where action planning is a part of
the process.  Then you end up with action planning taking the group in
one large general direction, but the individual passion and
responsibility for little things also in play.

Cheers,

Chris

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CHRIS CORRIGAN
Consultation - Facilitation
Open Space Technology

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