OST 1,5 day: Any suggestion?

Tue Oct 20 23:37:21 PDT 2009

Hi Koos,

Thank you so much for your answer!

Regarding the time, the participants are part of a group of people  
who come every tuesday night (from 18:00 to 21:00) to listen ton  
conference about "transition town, energy, climat change, new  
currencies...".
Each tuesday there is one conference, than a break with food, then a  
second conference and food again.

That's why we had the idea to do the first half day until 21:00 with  
food supply during the 2 last discusisons.

I think your right that it is strange to have a session in the second  
morning. It would be better to make them happen all in the same period.

I am curious about what you call storytelling? How do you facilitate  
that? Wouldn't the participants be surprise and maybe not so happy  
just to tell or listen to stories?

Can you tell me more about that?

Best regards,

Déborah Maarek

Awareness Consulting

Rue de Toulouse, 15 - 1040 Brussels, Belgique

T: +32 (0) 2 219 33 35 - Gsm: +32 (0) 495 38 98 88

deborahmaarek at awareness-consulting.net

www.awarenessconsulting.com

Skype: deborahmaarek

Le 20-oct.-09 à 22:37, Koos de Heer a écrit :

> Hi Deborah,
>
> Looking at your program, the first thing that comes to mind is that  
> it will work, as Open Space always works when done with good  
> intentions. The second thing is that it feels a little strange to  
> have three sessions on one side of the night and the fourth session  
> on the other side. For me, the night is a boundary and I usually  
> use it in that way. Usually when I do a 1,5 day Open Space event, I  
> have a full day first with all the sessions and then the morning of  
> the second day for convergence and action planning. The night is  
> the time when everything from the sessions can settle down and boil  
> and simmer and stew.
>
> In your time frame, with a night and a full day, I would consider  
> doing just storytelling and sharing on the first day, and sessions  
> as well as convergence on the second day (sessions in the morning,  
> convergence in the afternoon, that gives you the lunch break for  
> printing reports).
>
> My third thougt looking at your program is that folks will get very  
> hungry when dinner is at 21:00, but maybe that is normal in France.
>
> By the way, I have abandoned the priority voting. I find it sort of  
> messy and clumsy. I simply open the space again, with a new agenda  
> for action planning. Very elegant and powerful.
>
> Good luck
>
> Koos
>
>
> At 19:17 20-10-2009, Déborah Maarek wrote:
>> Hello again,
>>
>> Working on a OST for Rennes City in France, I would like to have  
>> you experience about the timing to propose for a 1,5 day event!
>>
>> One of the pb is that the host is afraid that many people will  
>> come only the first day or only the second day.
>> How can we manage this kind of situation?
>>
>> Just to give you the context: The OST is about Rennes, post carbon  
>> city. They have to reach -20% CO2 in 2020 and they want to consult  
>> the citizen (around 100 to 160 participants: inhabitants,  
>> companies, politics...)
>>
>> My idea is to do most of the emergence part during the first day:
>>
>> Day 1
>> 16:00Opening
>> 17:00Discussion 1
>> 18:00Discussion 2
>> 19:00Discussion 3
>> 20:00News of the day
>> 20:45End of the day
>>
>> Day 2
>>
>> 9:00Morning news*
>> 9:30Discussion 4
>> 10:30End of writting the reports
>> 11:00Reading
>> 12:30Vote of priorities
>> 13:00Lunch
>> 14:00Action Plan
>> 15:30Action Plan presentation
>> 16:15Personal Action Plan
>> 17:00Final cercle
>> 18:00End of the day
>>
>> My idea is that after the morning news, I will explain to the  
>> "new" participants the process so that they are not lost and they  
>> can do the 4th discussion.
>> Would it be strange?
>>
>> I imagine that it is very short for printing 100 or 160 reports  
>> after the 4th discussion...
>> But also if I take more time, what would the participants do  
>> during this "off" time?
>>
>> If you have any suggestion, ideas or experience, I would love to  
>> hear them!!
>>
>> Thank you for your help and support
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Déborah
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Déborah Maarek
>>
>> Awareness Consulting
>>
>> Rue de Toulouse, 15 - 1040 Brussels, Belgique
>>
>> T: +32 (0) 2 219 33 35 - Gsm: +32 (0) 495 38 98 88
>>
>> deborahmaarek at awareness-consulting.net
>>
>> www.awarenessconsulting.com
>>
>> Skype: deborahmaarek
>>
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