Mixing action planning and

[Gerard Muller]

Hello Beverly,

Could you say a bit how you intend to do your action planning ?

Reading your story I thought about a pattern I have observed in quite a 
number of Open Space meetings,
which is that a limited number of topics seems to be discussed in many 
groups, no matter the topics these groups
"officially" have on the agenda.  And these recurring topics often are 
not mentioned as such on the agenda at all.

If I have a day and a half, as the first step on the second day I often 
ask whether there are any really important topics which we have 
forgotten on the first day, or which have been discussed but are not 
mentioned as such on the first day's agenda.
These are then added.

The alternative I sometimes use is to simply reopen for action planning.

In both cases new topics may be put up that people feel like 
discussing, even though the invitation is to move
towards action planning - and the new ones may never reach the stage of 
becoming an action plan - but then,
that's the only thing that could happen.

Greetings from a snowstorm in Svenmark,




Gerard Muller
Open Space Institute Denmark
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Mail: gm at openspace.dk









On Feb 23, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Beverley Neff wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> With the help of a good team, I am hosting and facilitating a day and 
> a half OS next weekend here in my own community. (Send your prayers!) 
> The theme is "Living Together on Saturna Island: Issues and 
> Opportunities". I am expecting about 40-50 people. Saturna has about 
> 300 residents, even more part time residents.
>
> Saturday is a full day with three breakout session. Sunday is a half 
> day, with distribution of the Book of Proceedings, reopening for 
> action planning (one session) and then a closing circle.
>
> Sunday we meet from 9 AM to 2 PM. And here is my dilemma: I love the 
> idea of the Book of Proceedings on each chair when people come in 
> early for coffee. And yet I still want to ask if there are any other 
> topics that have come up after a night's sleep. If so, we could have 
> one more time slot for breakout sessions before we reopen for action 
> planning and one shorter session for immediate next steps, followed by 
> a half-hour lunch break and closing circle.
>
> If there are no further topics, then we'd have the option of going 
> right into non-convergence and finishing early. Nobody would mind 
> that!
>
> What do you think? Should I include that first Sunday time-slot in the 
> time/space matrix on Saturday or just offer it on Sunday? Should I 
> drop the whole idea?
>
> Any feedback will be deeply appreciated by this relative newbie to 
> facilitating OS.
>
> Many thanks for being there!
>
> Beverley Neff
> Saturna Island, BC Canada
>
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