What to do with 1.5 to 2 hours

[Erich Kolenaty]

Sounds like "Open Space light". Very interesting.
Erich
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Peggy Holman
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
  Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:00 PM
  Subject: Re: [OSLIST] What to do with 1.5 to 2 hours


  Larry,

  You said:
  We closed the session with a half-hour fishbowl conversation of initiators 
and reporters that did transcend reporting back and got into good 
conversation (not presentation) with new insights.


  I'm intrigued with this approach as a very creative way of handling the 
desire that often exists to hear what happened in the room.

  Would you say more about this - what sparked the idea, how many were in 
the fishbowl (half hour isn't a lot of time and with 200 people, I'm 
imagining there were a fair number of sessions), what question did you use 
to launch the fishbowl?

  appreciatively,
  Peggy

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Larry Peterson
    To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
    Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:49 AM
    Subject: [OSLIST] What to do with 1.5 to 2 hours


    This week, I worked with a client, as many before, who wanted an event 
that began with substantial sharing of new ideas and information about 
telemedicine.  Few of the close to 200 participants really knew what the 
possibilities were and so telling that story was key and it took a couple of 
hours in the morning.  There was not sufficient time nor was there 
willingness on the part of the sponsor and his board to use OST for the 
afternoon - the board members believed it was too open.  There was 
willingness to have an hour or more of  "self-organizing discussion".  I 
have encountered this before with Canadians frightened of the openness of 
OST.  So, I do not call it open space and we are not sitting in a circle. 
However, I asked emergent leadership with regard to the theme question to 
identify a topic of interest (passion) and to ensure a report is written up. 
I didn't invoke the principles and law but encouraged people to go where 
they had some interest.  Flip charts with letters were around the room. It 
took 20 minutes to get the leadership and topics out (on flip chart and 
projection on the screen) and then folks went to discussion for a bit less 
than an hour.  Good discussions, good energy.  We closed the session with a 
half-hour fishbowl conversation of initiators and reporters that did 
transcend reporting back and got into good conversation (not presentation) 
with new insights.   I do not call that OST, even thought I learned if from 
OST practice.  For me, two rounds and more "space" are important for the 
synergy and depth of OST to emerge - its much better in a day.  However, it 
worked really well for this kind of discussion in a short time frame.



    Thought I'd share the story.



    Larry Peterson

    Associates in Transformation

    Toronto, ON, Canada

    416.653.4829



    larry at spiritedorg.com

    www.spiritedorg.com



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