Action marketplace

[Nancy McPhee]

Yup, Chris, this is very creative and much appreciated! Thanks for sharing
it with us. Getting to concrete and specific action was something my last
group wanted more of. and this will help!

 

Nancy 

 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris
Corrigan
Sent: 25 January 2006 12:41
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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