Convergence for Group Consensu

Wed Mar 5 11:11:47 PST 2008

Thank you dear Christee, great to hear from you

We will try it in Israel

Avner
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  From: Christy Lee-Engel 
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  Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 8:58 PM
  Subject: Re: Convergence for Group Consensu

  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
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      From: Diane Gibeault 
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      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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