Getting all the qustions out :-)

[Diane Gibeault]

Hi Deborah,

Congratulations for your OS event.

Your reminder for topics is a good one. In the same line, I invite people to visualize themselves leaving the room at the end of the event and thinking "I wish I would have posted the topic about...." .  I get the same reaction . It may not have been a question they came with at the meeting. It may have just emerged from hearing the other topics and from the incubation. 

Like you I've also observed that it is often people who have been holding back who will decide to post then. The trigger is so significant that in the closing circle they often do talk about that moment as it was special for them - I think it feels special because they are proud and happy of having taken leadership, of having taken their space. 

When topics are mostly all up, I do say that this is a dynamic agenda to which they can add topics at any time during the discussion phase. The incubation continues to do it's work and new topics do appear at times.

A few words can make a difference on how people will show up.

Diane
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Deborah Hartmann 
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  Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:38 AM
  Subject: [Bulk] Getting all the qustions out :-)


  I just ran another open space for techies on the weekend, at XPday Manhattan. It was a amall and lively event, lots of fun.
  Results here: http://xpdayna.stikipad.com/manhattan2007/ 

  I was today reflecting on something I noticed there and at other XPday events: when people are posting sessions and things slow down, I use reminders like: "What question did you come in with, that you'd be disappointed to leave without an answer?" This usually brings up someone right away (often a woman, who are in the minority in this crowd). They've been holding back asking a "silly question" that isn't silly at all, and they are relieved to get it out there! There is always spirited discussion about this question, when the time comes. I love it!

  This is an element of "invitation" that is missing in some of the BarCamps I've attended: I was so sad to hear someone say at TorCamp "I guess I'll propose a topoic next time, when I'm better prepared" :-(

  deb

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