Convergence for Group Consensu

avner avnerh at zahav.net.il
Wed Mar 5 11:13:19 PST 2008


How didn`t I think about it Michael?

Avner

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael M Pannwitz" <mmpanne at boscop.org>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: Convergence for Group Consensu


> come on avner, thats simple:
> you look in the catalogue of doors and find out how much that door costs, 
> that is the door prize,
> then you draw (write) the prize of the door on the door
> got it?
> mmp
>
> avner wrote:
>> Chris, what is a `door prize drawing`?, for us the non english speakers?
>>
>> Avner
>>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>>   From: Diane Gibeault 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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