Design question for an OS-meeting

[Chris Corrigan]

Hiya:

I see...

In my experience 3 1.5 hour sessions back to back is a heavy load for
attention.  I would stay at four total, which should be fine for a group of
100.  I don't work much with same day storytelling, and I might be tempted
to add a session to the morning of day one if I needed another.

It seems like you have a good opportunity to deepen comittment to action if
you start the action planning conversations on day two and then invite the
groups to "park downhill" by leaving with a clear sense of the work to
continue on Monday.  Then come back Monday and continue the conversations
then with the benefit of a couple of sleeps under their belts.

I'd be interested to see how that goes actually, to have two formal action
planning meeting scheduled within the context of an event.

Hope this helps...interested to see how it goes.

Chris

On 6/28/06, Thomas Herrmann <thomas at openspaceconsulting.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi Chris
> What I was thinking about more particularily was:
> 1. Maybe include another session in the morning day 2. I´ve planned to
> start at 8.00. That would mean lunch at 12 or 12.30 and less time in the
> afternoon for activities such as actionplanning.
> 2. Spending less time working on actionplans, instead give time to let
> people give each other feedback to bring to the action planning sessions
> coming monday.
>
> Regarding the voting and grouping of topics I still often do that. My
> experience is that sponsors in organizations like to have this information
> and it gives a good structure, common picture to the participants. I AM VERY
> CLEAR that this is not a process to exclude any topics, that´s why I also
> use re-opening (guess it is what you call non-convergence) to identify
> topics for action planning. The voting/grouping does take some time and I
> agree a "clean" re-opening is nice too...
> Cheers
> Thomas
>
>
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> *Ämne:* Re: Design question for an OS-meeting
>
> I canlt see anything wrong with your design here Thomas.  I would opt for
> "non-convergence" on day two, or more precisely "non-prioritization" by
> simply re-opening the space for those that are willing to take
> responsibility for convening the action teams they want to see happen.
>
> Other than that, it looks perfectly workable to me...or am I missing
> something in your question?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
> (Frolunda Fan in passing!)
>
> On 6/28/06, Thomas Herrmann <thomas at openspaceconsulting.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear friends in Open Space
> > I am planning a two day OS-meeting and would like to ask for any ideas
> > from
> > you.
> > My sponsor is a headmaster. Two schools are being merged into one unit
> > and
> > the start will be a 2-day OS-meeting in August. About 100 participants
> > both
> > teachers and other employees.
> >
> > The OS-meeting is Thursday-friday and on Monday there will be time for
> > action teams to meet to work more on the action plans. So my question is
> > around how to get the most out of the afternoon day 2, having in mind
> > there
> > will be a few hours to work further on Monday. We have to be finished by
> > 15.30. Any sharing of experiences, suggestions and ideas welcome!
> >
> > Yesterday we had our pre-meeting and the design we discussed goes like
> > this:
> > ---DAY 1---
> > Storytelling in the morning
> > LUNCH
> > Opening
> > 2 sessions (1,5 hours)
> > Evening news
> > Dinner
> >
> > ---DAY 2---
> > Morning news
> > 2 sessions (1,5 hours)
> > LUNCH (printing reports)
> > Reading all the reports
> > Prioritization/grouping of topics (to get a structure of the material
> > and
> > info about where the energy is in the groups as a whole)
> > Re-opening
> > Next step action meeting
> > Closing
> > ---
> > Hugs
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