Convergence for Group Consensu

Thu Mar 6 14:18:07 PST 2008

On the subject of Door Prizes - my very favorite happened when I was an
early teenager. Thirteen to be exact, and for all you parents out there --
that is just the beginning of The Trouble! 

I had a birthday party to celebrate my 13th and I thought a Door Prize
sounded cool. We didn't use that word, "cool," that way in those days long
ago, but you get the picture. You also need to know that I loved animals of
all varieties, and usually had a small collection, much to my mother's
dismay. 

My pride and joy was Sniffy - a cute little Skunk**. You guessed it. Sniffy
was the Door Prize, all wrapped up in a cozy box. The winner turned out to
be a precocious young lady (you know the kind -- 13 going on 25 - Way
Cool!). She got the box and squealed with delight - a scream that went up
several octaves when she opened it to reveal. . . SNIFFY, in all of his
radiant glory! Actually it was just the usual black and white Skunk, as he
had been "de-odorized." But when he appeared nobody knew his true status
(except for my very best friends who were sworn to secrecy). 

Well - That Door Prize cleared the house. Everybody, I mean
e-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y, - out the door.  Talk about building community. Loving
your neighbor, Caring for the down trodden. I have been trying to reform
ever since. But one thing for sure -- I, with the help of Sniffy, created a
lot of Open Space! But when it comes to convergence, I don't think I had the
proper instructions.  

Harrison

** For those of you who do not live on the North American continent, and may
not be familiar with Skunks. . . They are very cute, very stupid, and VERY
SMELLY! One shot from that Skunk (they have a musk gland) will totally
destroy (not kill, but he wished he were dead) a very large dog. And that
dog, once sprayed is not allowed in the house for weeks. There is nothing
you can do. Washing just makes it worse. 

Harrison Owen

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris
Corrigan
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:41 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Convergence for Group Consensu

My gosh...what a thing it would be to win a door in a door prize drawing.

Sorry.

Yes, a door prize is a common incentive at conferences and such.  Basically
anyone who comes through the door at an event is issued a ticket and at the
end of an event, a draw is held for small prizes.  It results in a peculiar
dynamic whereby a number is read out, one person cheers, 160 people groan
and everyone makes a quick recovery and congratulates the victor on their
skillful acquisition of a T-shirt that is too big for them.

You might not be aware of it, but we North Americans have some peculiar
customs.

:-)

Chris

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:13 AM, avner <avnerh at zahav.net.il> wrote:

How didn`t I think about it Michael?

Avner

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael M Pannwitz" <mmpanne at boscop.org>
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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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