SV: [OSLIST] My first OS

[Michael M Pannwitz]

Dear Bui,
Lise has offered a good plan!
Regarding your role, here my observation from experience with the boscop 
retreats, where we are 6 to 9 people (a three day event, however, twice 
a year):
-The first several times we made sure that one of us took on the role of 
facilitator and stick to it
-After a while we had the facilitator tend mostly to the initiation with 
the task of "holding time and space" shifting to the entire group
-Presently, we all participate in the initiation (its done in silence 
with all the things typical for an os set up: Principles visible, 
Law...)and in the holding of time and space and all the technical stuff.
My suggestion is that you focus on being the facilitator. Of course, the 
sponsor of the event which I suppose is the whole group, needs to be 
happy with it.
Getting into the mode of "holding time and space" and "not being 
attached to outcome" is a difficult act even for some of us that are 
more experienced...you will be busy sticking to the role and it would 
not surprise me if it were to be of great benefit to the event!
Chances, that doing it this way will also help the participants see more 
of the "full potential" of open space and its applicability for larger 
and public events should be increased.
Lets hear on how it went!
Greetings from Berlin
mmp

Lise Damkjær wrote:
> Hi Bui,
> Congratulations, you have a lot of fun coming right up ;-)
> 
> I think that the challenge in your situation could be to get the small
> amount of people to actually divide into sessions and for real use their
> "law of two feet". They might believe that they can have a good discussion
> all together with all themes. 
> To get them to "flow" more - individuals walking from one session to another
> and concentrating on one theme at a time - I would emphasize the law of two
> feet in my opening - and make time for 3 sessions of 40 minutes - If there
> are few people 45 min will get them into deep discussion and if they have
> the possibility of participating in 3 different themes, they will easier
> accept that they cannot participate in everything - I hope! 
> And since they are volunteers, they probably have lots of themes, they want
> to discuss.
> My timetable would be: 
> 15 min opening, 15 min agenda creation
> 3 sessions of 40 min
> 30 min actionplanning like this: 
> 	5 min individual reflection: From what you know right now, what
> seems 	to you to be the action plan? 
> 	5 min individual reflection: For what are you willing and eager to
> take responsibility?
> 	20 min: marketplace - present your action-plan ideas and network to
> get somebody to help you to do your responsibility-work! 
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Lise, Copenhagen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Lise Damkjær
> Engineer and FLOWhost
> T: +45 2949 9636 (Denmark)
> 
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> Fra: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] På vegne af Bui Petersen
> Sendt: 16. april 2009 04:04
> Til: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Emne: [OSLIST] My first OS
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> It looks like I finally will be facilitating my first ever OS a week and 
> a half from now. It is for a recently formed (actually still forming) 
> volunteer group I'm a member of and we want to meet to sort out the 
> direction we want to go in. Since we're all volunteers, time is limited 
> and we've only been able to set aside 3 hours. Obviously we want to 
> cover as many issues as possible, so the question is how much time to 
> schedule for each session. With this group I don't think I need to spend 
> too much time in the opening explaining the process and since we are 
> very small (10 or less), I don't expect the agenda creation to take long 
> either.
> 
> The group would like to leave with some clear action plans but I'm not 
> sure how to do that with the limited time we've got. I like people 
> having time to sleep on things, but that obviously won't happen unless 
> we all manage to have a 5 minute nap. I have thought of ways to leave 
> the action planning for later, but I haven't found a good way to do that 
> either. Either it will be too long before we meet again, or we have to 
> do it electronically.
> I should mention that since I am an integral member of the group the 
> others don't want me to stay completely out of the discussions. I think 
> I have found a way to deal with this. I will just have to see what 
> happens. While I don't expect us to see the full potential of OST with 
> time we've got, I am hoping the group will see it's usefulness for other 
> larger and public events.
> 
> So if anyone has any suggestions on how to deal with the time 
> challenges, I would be forever grateful.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bui Petersen
> 
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