[OSList] closing circle with lots of participants was: how to find resources?
Peggy Holman
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Fri Oct 28 09:36:09 PDT 2011
Thanks for your question, Birgitt. There is something that I have done at times when time is short and the group is large that I didn't know to do in 2004. Invite people to take 5 minutes to reflect in pairs or triads, then open the circle any reflections to be spoken to the whole. That gives every voice a chance to be heard by someone.
appreciatively,
Peggy
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On Oct 27, 2011, at 6:33 PM, Birgitt Williams wrote:
> I think that this approach will get the job done at one level of consciousness. I would not do it this way in terms of my honor of circle work…when a circle is opened, there is also a closing of the actual circle that brings about completion. I wonder if there is a way to do the closing practiced by those of you with really large groups, and also do something to include each and every person to close the circle? I look forward to reading your creativity about this…if you care to add.
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> Birgitt Williams
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> From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Peggy Holman
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 7:44 PM
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> The OS with 2,100 street kids followed the same pattern as Christine and Harrison described. Hope u can go for it!
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> Peggy
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> On Oct 27, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Christine Whitney Sanchez <cwhitneysanchez at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Eva, similar to Harrison, at the 2005 Girl Scout Convention with 1700, we put microphone stands in 4 of the "fire marshall aisles" and invited people to share what had heart and meaning, what got you moving, what touched you, etc. We only had 10 minutes to do the closing and this worked wonderfully well.
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> If you would like to see how this worked, some of the closing comments can be found at the end of CONNECTED: Transforming the Conversation at the 2005 Convention : Thousands of Girl Scouts use Open Space Technology and World Cafe to focus on the Core Business Strategy at the 2005 Girl Scout National Convention.
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> May this dream of you and your friend come true so that you can build on the best of the past and perhaps innovate new closing circle process.
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> Love from a brilliant afternoon in Bisbee, Arizona, a few miles from the border with Mexico,
> Christine
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> On Oct 27, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Harrison Owen wrote:
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> Eva – when you have a bunch (2108J) a workable approach is to say something like “We have XX minutes and if anybody cares to share their experience, their hopes or dreams – raise your hand and I will give you the mike. Just remember that we have to be out of here by ??:?? o’clock.” When we reach the magic moment I take back the mike, pass it to the sponsor for a final farewell. Always seems to work.
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> From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Eva P Svensson
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 11:53 AM
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> OK,
> I give up :-) Sorry but it's faster this way - to ask you guys directly. My question that I was looking for the answer in the archives was and is - How do you do/ how to handle a closing circle when there is thousands of participants in an OS meeting. I mean it could take very loooooooooong.......
> I tried to remember the name for the 2108 participants OS but don't remember...
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> How did you do that?
> All the best
> :o)
> Eva
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> 26 okt 2011 kl. 21.17 skrev Eva P Svensson:
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> Thanks Michael!!
> I will check it out - what I am looking for is how did you do closing circle in a huge OS meeting - for example yours with 2108 participants :-)
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> Eva P Svensson
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> Member of Beyond Performance Group
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> "Verksamhetsutveckling genom människor skapar långsiktigt välmående företag och organisationer"
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> Anåsbergsvägen 22, 439 34 ONSALA
> Besöksadress; Norra Allégatan 8, Göteborg
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> 26 okt 2011 kl. 16.53 skrev Michael M Pannwitz:
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> Dear Eva,
> go here
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> http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/
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> If you enter for instance "circle" in the search window you get
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> **** Calling the Circle
> **** Calling the Circle
> **** Expanding the circle
> **** Expanding the circle
> **** the dark side of circle practices
> **** the dark side of circle practices -- and related themes
> **** talking circle reflections
> **** Help! -- The Circle
> *** the dark side of circle practices
> *** the dark side of circle practices -- and related themes
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> Any help?
> cheers
> mmp
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> On 26.10.2011 15:55, Eva P Svensson wrote:
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> Hi dear list-members!
> How do I do when I want to search in the files - the OS-list files that is?
> Anyone out there to help?
> All the best from a autumn-like rainy Sweden
> :o)
> Eva
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