[OSList] Re : OSt in 75 mins is it possible?

[Mary O'Connor]

Hi Lori,
Just to feed back, I opened the space and it did what it does, it gave the
people a chance to discuss what they had to discuss, I had to let go and
trust the process.... It was so positive and received so well. I know we
will use it again, I hope for a two day event.
Thank you for all your advice which I took on board.
all the best
Mary.

On 14 March 2012 13:14, Lori Palano <lpalano at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello Mary
>
> I run annually an open space-inspired assembly for my choir, and we manage
> to get some interesting work done within one hour. I believe Michael's
> cautions about ensuring that the open space is more than just a fancy
> brainstorm, that it promotes responsibility and self-organising initiative
> are very important to keeping the flavour of open space. Once the aspect of
> framing the work is taken care of, I believe interesting surprises can
> happen.
>
> In my particular context, obviously choices have to be made to allow for
> discussion time. We are a group of around 55 people who know each other
> relatively well, and that helps, and we have already a system for internal
> communication, and that helps too. We manage to skip the opening circle,
> and head straight for the crunchy bits. The theme and the principles and
> laws are stated, and then agenda creation begins. As we do not have
> multiple time slots, the people who suggest topics write them on a paper
> that is simply posted beside where they host their conversation (agenda
> wall, one less thing!). Obviously this works because we are all in one big
> auditorium and anyone can find the conversation they want just by looking
> around. The open space does its magic for about 45 minutes.
>
> Every year at the end I play it by ear. If conversations are still going
> strong, we simply de-camp to our local pub and keep going until it is over.
> However, if there is a chance, I like to bring everyone back together for a
> closing for 5 minutes. Reports are simply hand-written notes at this point,
> but it gives us a chance to state that we feel we have moved forward on
> certain questions. What works really well for us is that the reports are
> entered directly into the forum on our internal website, groups form around
> these conversations and the follow-up work is self-organised that way. I
> usually set a date a couple of week from the assembly to say that at that
> point I will collate the reports as they are on the forum so that we have a
> trace of what came out of the assembly. In our context we do not require
> voting.
>
> Even in this short example of what OS can do, the participants tend to
> leave energised (this is 10PM on a weekday too!) and motivated to improve
> our choir experience. If your theme is crunchy enough (hmmmm, I think I am
> craving cookies or something, I've used that image twice in this one short
> e-mail!) I believe the interest in doing a longer term open space could be
> piqued. Here I'll include a quote from Michael Herman's website
> *
> *
> *"Open Space works best when the work do be done is complex, the people
> and ideas involved are diverse, the passion for resolution are high, and
> the time to get it done was yesterday."  *
> http://www.michaelherman.com/cgi/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceTechnology/ExecutiveSummary
>
> If that is not your situation, is this really the best use of Open Space?
> If that is the situation, something marvellous can happen in 75 minutes
> (but not everything!), and most everyone will be calling out for more.
>
> Bonne Chance!
> Lori
>
>
>   ------------------------------
> *De :* Mary O'Connor <mary.hippychick at gmail.com>
> *À :* oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> *Envoyé le :* lundi 12 mars 2012 18h52
> *Objet :* [OSList] OSt in 75 mins is it possible?
>
> Dear All, I have a question.
> I have attended several OST events and co-run a couple. I am part of an
> organisation  that is interested in using OST to brainstorm for a centenary
> event.
> This would be part of an AGM and there is 75 mins allocated to work out
> the best way to celebrate a centenary. has anyone successfully used OST in
> this way in such a small window of time?
>
> It would also serve to open up for the organisation  some experience of
> OST which I know would truly benefit from a 2 day event to sort out it's
> future direction, the people involved are very passionate about it (it is a
> creative/educational organisation) . Any thoughts appreciated thank you,
> Mary.
>
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