[OSList] Designing an OS way

douglas germann 76066.515 at compuserve.com
Thu Sep 15 19:26:31 PDT 2011


Barry--

Great twist.

I worry about the immediacy effect: with OST, you get what is on
people's minds and hearts that instant. If they name the topic 5 weeks
ahead, or even 2, that is lost. How do you deal with that, Barry?

			:- Doug.




On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 21:12 -0500, Barry Owen wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>  
> I've been doing something similar, but with different students.
>  
> I began with a 3 hour session to do a full OST meeting opening,
> posting topics and opening the marketplace . . . Followed by two 45
> minute sessions . . . and ending with "Evening News"
>  
> The Time/place matrix was the same as if the event were to be @ a 5
> day event.
>  
> We had 5 "break-out spaces" identified . . . and the times were the
> "Regular meeting times for the class" In my case, we had 2 hours to
> work with each week, so we had two 45 minute sessions each day (Making
> it possible to have 10 sessions in 2 hours each meeting)
>  
> This was a total of 6 weeks - 
>  
> 1st week was opening and 1 session (5 break-out spaces) + Evening news
> 2nd- 5th weeks were "Morning Announcements" and 2 sessions + Evening
> News
> 6th week was delivery of the proceedings and closing.
>  
> This was as "normal" an OST meeting as we could do given the time
> constraints . . . and it worked/
>  
> I'm doing this again now without the opening (odd, but true) . . . It
> just happened.
>  
> When the first set was completed, the space apparently never really
> closed and I was asked to continue the weekly meetings . . . So we are
> doing that with the topics being emailed to me, and I am sending a
> weekly email to the whole group. We are not breaking into 5 groups
> each week . . . It's morphed into handling @ 4 topics each time.
>  
> All in all . . . If you were to delete the days in-between the meeting
> day, this would be one "normal OST meeting"
>  
> Still playing with it and thinking that 6 weeks is about the longest
> for this cycle . . . Then it's time for a break . . . then another
> opening.
>  
> Good luck,
>  
> Best,
>  
> b 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:18 PM, douglas germann
> <76066.515 at compuserve.com> wrote:
>         Friends--
>         
>         An opportunity has been dropped in my lap, and I need your
>         help to
>         noodle it through, please:
>         
>         A local college created a program for beginning entrepreneurs.
>         They now
>         have a dozen graduates of this continuing education program,
>         and they
>         are doing follow-on sessions: once a month, from 9 to 10 am,
>         local
>         experts present and consult with them. For those who pay the
>         fee for
>         this continuing portion, this session is mandatory.
>         
>         Now they want to do something at these monthly meetings which
>         will
>         encourage them to consult and conspire with one another on the
>         challenges they are facing as they start their businesses.
>         This is
>         voluntary.
>         
>         The sessions would run from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm. Many people
>         may have to
>         get back to work by 1:00 so may leave early.
>         
>         They had a 3-hour OS session half way through their program
>         before they
>         graduated, so most of them have had some experience with OS.
>         
>         My sense of what they need is to be sounding boards for each
>         other, to
>         engage one another in deep and meaningful conversation, to
>         have some
>         bonding or cohesiveness time.
>         
>         I would like to design some way that uses OS principles that
>         becomes
>         their way of being together. They would like me to help some
>         of them
>         learn how to do OST, and that might be part of it.
>         
>         How would you design an OS way of life for these women for
>         their once a
>         month meeting?
>         
>         Thanks!
>         
>                                :- Doug.
>         
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