co-located open space events

Mon Mar 13 06:50:06 PST 2006

Thank you, Gerard, this is fantstic!

On 3/13/06, Gerard Muller <gm at openspace.dk> wrote:
> Dear Ted,
>
> Thanks for your question. The case where two dissimilar events were
> co-located,
> the sponsor was a conference centre organisation using a series of Open
> Space events
> in different content areas to find out what future trends there would
> be and how to cooperate
> with different stakeholders within that particular area. There was a
> series of 8 or 10 events
> and two of these happened to be on the same day.
>
> In the second case, the two paralel sessions were related, and taking
> place within an international conference.
> However my sponsor had hired me to do the one session, the other one
> had been organised separately.
> Although the two issues were related, I felt that by combining them
> there was a risk of having a great session
> which my sponsor would feel had not addressed their issue enough. By
> the way there was a interesting observation:
> in the one group issues were posted all over the place, in the other,
> mainly consisting of economists, the agenda was
> filled in like an excel spreadsheet, starting at the top left hand
> corner, and proceeding to the second discussion round
> after the first seemed complete.
>
> As it happened, talking to the collegues facilitating the other session
> we decided that there would be a likely
> overlap and that during the course of the event we would discuss having
> a joint closing circle, which we did.
>
> In the last case, the issue was - given the fact that part of the
> younger generation (according to some) lives unhealthily -
> what could be done to change that. Discussing who to invite with the
> sponsor we easily made a list of stakeholders.
> It became more difficult when I raised the point that actually these
> young people were the key stakeholder.
> As my sponsor was concerned this would work, I proposed having two
> paralel events with a glass wall between
> and a shared coffee etc. area. Also here we had a joint closing circle.
> Some of the main conclusions were that
> (a) the other stakeholders had little or no idea of how young people
> look at healthy, (b) crossing the boundary had been
> the most important experience
>
> Greetings from Denmark
>
>
>
>
> Gerard Muller
> Open Space Institute Denmark
> Phone: (+45) 21269621           Skype: openspace1
> Mail: gm at openspace.dk
>
>
>
> On Mar 10, 2006, at 4:40 PM, Ted Ernst wrote:
>
> > Gerard,
> >
> > I'm very curious why you choose seperate circles in the times when the
> > issues were related, and why you co-located dis-similer events in that
> > instance.  Thanks much for sharing!
> >
> > peace,
> > ted
> >
> > On 3/10/06, Gerard Muller <gm at openspace.dk> wrote:
> >> Hello Ted,
> >>
> >> I have tried that three times.
> >>
> >> The first were two events where the two groups had little to do with
> >> eachother,
> >> two facilitators.
> >>
> >> The second was two paralel sessions (though the only two at that
> >> point)
> >> in an international
> >> conference. two facilitators, but ............. one closing circle.
> >>
> >> The last, last month, two sessions which I both facilitated, starting
> >> the one half an hour before the other,
> >> having a wall largely made of doors and glass, and ending with a joint
> >> closing circle.
> >> In this last case the two issues were related, but the solution which
> >> emerged from my conversations with the sponsor was to have two paralel
> >> sessions, but to have a joint closing.
> >> In both openings I told the group there was another going on at the
> >> other side of the wall, and
> >> - that they were welcome to open the door and look at the other
> >> agenda;
> >> - and join a discussion there, too.
> >>
> >> In the two events which were connected we had one set of computers,
> >> and
> >> one coffee/tea/lunch area.
> >>
> >> Greetings from the snow,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Gerard Muller
> >> Open Space Institute Denmark
> >> Phone: (+45) 21269621
> >> mail: gm at openspace.dk
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mar 9, 2006, at 7:45 AM, Ted Ernst wrote:
> >>
> >>> Traditional conferences somtimes co-locate because of their
> >>> overlapping communities or for various other reasons.  Sometimes an
> >>> OS
> >>> event is co-located with a traditional event, maybe calling them
> >>> tracks or whatever.
> >>>
> >>> What about two OS events, co-located?  I've got a brainstorm cooking
> >>> here, with the omidyar.net members conference in July and the first
> >>> Chicago Planetwork conference.  Two facilitators.  Two opening
> >>> circles.  Two agenda walls.  One hotel.
> >>>
> >>> The alternative, of course, is to try to craft a single invitation
> >>> that serves both groups.  Maybe that's still possible.
> >>>
> >>> Thoughts?
> >>>
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