[OSList] How the invitation and question should be?

Thu Jun 28 05:50:16 PDT 2012

Dear Eleder,
great you asked, I did not report on my procedere clear enough.
Here it goes:
For the contact meeting where you assist the sponsor in finding out 
whether prerequisites for Open Space are met it is important to have the 
sponsor(s) (decider(s)) present (all the people that have a say in 
whether this approach should be followed)...
When it is clear that OST is the way to go the sponsor installs a 
Planning Group which decides on Theme, Invitation etc. and it should be 
composed of people that the sponsor is interested in having at the event 
(this in a way will represent the system but only at that point in time, 
the Planning Group will come up with a more complete picture of the 
whole system which is important for the invitation). For healthcare you 
might try to have people from hospitals, the insurance business, 
patients, doctors, nurses, midwives, outreach people, people from local 
government, scientists, pharmacies,... the list can become very 
long...in my experience there have been Planning Groups of 6 all the way 
up to 35.
At the contact meeting there might be 3 to 8 people, usually around 5... 
this is not a contract meeting just a service for the sponsor to find 
out (and for me as facilitator also to find out) whether he wants to go 
with ost. Even if I am approached by a sponsor with the clear message 
that he wants OST, I suggest/insists on a contact meeting (usually 1,5 
hours) to get the prerequisites discussion (in a way the sponsor has to 
convince me that the prerequisites are in place or how they can be met).
I charge no fee for the contact meeting (just reimbursment for travel 
etc.) and suggest that no decision is taken at the meeting itself but 
that both sponsor and I sleep twice and then have the next contact...

Good luck with the healthcare project!

Cheers

mmp

On 28.06.2012 14:23, Eleder_BuM wrote:
> Hi, I´m liking to follow this conversation. Thanks all!
>
> I share Robyn´s concern with /Under-representation of women/ (and
> probably other collectives if we refine our observation)...
>
> Another issue: I just received an invitation to facilitate an Open Space
> on healthcare and this conversation makes me doubt..
>
> ...do we really need to meet a "small group that would represent the
> whole system" for the first meeting or
>
> ...would the meeting with the sponsor(s)/the one(s) who cares be enough
> to decide if Open Space suits, fix the theme and draft the invitation
> (and sure, then try through the invitation process to attract the
> participation of the whole system)?
> *
> *Eleder
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>
>
>
> 2012/6/27 Michael M Pannwitz <mmpanne at boscop.org
> <mailto:mmpanne at boscop.org>>
>
>     I would ask that powerful sponsor to invite me to a contact meeting
>     with a small group that would represent the whole system he is
>     inviting (an actress, a statesman, an artist, a criminal, someone
>     dead for a long time, someone recently died, a scientist...) to see
>     whether the 5 preconditions for an open space are in place.
>
>     Once that were clear and they still want me as facilitator, I would
>     ask the sponsor to convene a planning meeting to come to an
>     agreement on such important matters as the "theme" (I certainly
>     would not propose one as I never do) and to draft an invitation
>     (which I certainly would not offer to draft myself as I never do).
>
>     About my fee? 0,0001% of the damage or good the participants were
>     responsible for in their lives.
>
>     cheers
>     mmp
>
>
>     On 26.06.2012 21:51, JL Walker wrote:
>
>         And since I have been taking flight with my participation in
>         this list,
>         let me now invite everyone to participate in the following playful
>         exercise (which I think could be interesting).
>
>         First of all please go to the following page:
>         http://cliptank.com/ab/__PeoplePainting2.htm
>         <http://cliptank.com/ab/PeoplePainting2.htm>
>
>         (Take note that you can place the cursor on each person for
>         knowing who
>         is, and that if you want you can make click on it for being
>         redirected
>         to its biography in Wikipedia).
>
>         Imagine now that you are contacted by a magical and powerful sponsor
>         that can makes all these people to be alive again and that ask
>         it to you
>         to facilitate an open space with all them.
>
>         First, you would accept to do it?
>
>         Second, how do you think the invitation and the theme (or
>         question) for
>         this incredible event should be?
>
>         I'm eager to hear your responses.
>
>         Juan Luis
>
>         www.cdic.cl <http://www.cdic.cl> <http://www.cdic.cl>
>
>
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