Convergence for Group Consensu

[Christy Lee-Engel]

Hi dear Avner and all,

A "door prize drawing" is when everyone who comes to an event is given a
ticket, or something with a number on it, when they come in the door. Later
during the event a number is drawn, or picked, randomly and the person who
has that number gets a gift! Printed tickets often come in sets so that you
can give people a ticket or bunch of tickets, and retain a matching set with
the same numbers printed on them to draw from.

Thanks to all as always for these very useful and thoughtful responses.

from a very sunny Seattle,
Christy
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On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:59 AM, avner <avnerh at zahav.net.il> wrote:

>  Chris, what is a `door prize drawing`?, for us the non english speakers?
>
> Avner
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>  *From:* Diane Gibeault <diane.gibeault at rogers.com>
> *To:* OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:43 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Convergence for Group Consensu
>
>  Hadn't thought of that Chris. The door prize is a fun way to reconnect
> with the more free and playful part of OS and might take the edge off this
> more structured part of OS.
>
> Diane
>
>
>
> *From:* OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Chris
> Corrigan
> *Sent:* 4 mars 2008 21:12
> *To:* OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: Convergence for Group Consensu
>
>
>
> That's a very cool way to do it Diane.  could combine it with a door prize
> drawing as well (also very common in Aboriginal community meetings ...:-)  )
>
> Thanks for this.
>
> chris
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Diane Gibeault <diane.gibeault at rogers.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Kim,
>
>
>
> When looking for the general directions the majority of a group wishes to
> take after discussions in Open Space, here is an option similar to dot
> voting but with less peer influence on the results. That may not always be
> important but when it is, the following alternative helps.
>
>
>
> Canadian aboriginal people shared with us this technique for compiling
> votes - or points of the survey as I now call it (Vote would imply decision
> making by participants when often, it is the leadership group that decides
> and confirms after the survey, that priorities proposed by participants are
> effectively a go for action planning given resources, context etc.).
>
>
>
> Their way is very quick and simple: tickets in envelopes attached to each
> report on the wall. They prefer this method since the individual choices are
> less influenced by the number of points (or votes) others have given to a
> topic report for the simple reason that the points are not visible.
>
>
>
> Participants read the Book of Reports identifying at the same time their
> top priorities and combining identical topics with the initiators' consent.
> After the combinations have been announced by the facilitation team, as
> people walk out through each of the aisles in the circle, they are handed a
> strip of tickets (e.g. 5 tickets).  They place their tickets in envelopes
> attached under each report on the wall.
>
>
>
> Then, participants are invited to go to a report - not their own - count
> results, mark the total on the envelope attached to the report. One
> volunteer per report remains at the wall for the announcement of results.
> When counting is all done, the facilitator asks if any report has the
> maximum number of points a report could receive (e.g., same number as the
> number of participants when it's one vote per person per report), and then
> goes down by 10 until someone shouts that their report is in that range. As
> report numbers and titles are announced volunteers note them on flip charts
> to capture the priorities of the group.
>
>
>
> This approach was used with several OS events of 450 people and it works
> wonderfully.
>
>
>
> Diane
>
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