Convergence for Group Consensu
Michael M Pannwitz
mmpanne at boscop.org
Thu Mar 6 14:39:12 PST 2008
Seems like convergence, action planning and carrying out the action was
all wrapped up into 3 nanoseconds.
Way cool!
Greetings from Berlin
mmp
Harrison Owen wrote:
> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> 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
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> 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
>
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> ----- 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
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>> 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
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>>>
>>> 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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