[OSList] Ending a one day OST with 775?

Fri Sep 21 22:56:03 PDT 2012

you mean - without taking the top 5 issues? just give them the dots?

Meike

Am 22.09.2012 um 01:20 schrieb Harrison Owen:

> A quick and dirty way -- and also probably effective -- would be the old
> stand-by "Sticky Dots" Give 5 to each student and let them stick at will.
> Guaranteed to be fun with not a few "stickies" going on the foreheads of
> various people. Definitely not a precise measure -- But it will surely
> indicate where the strong feeling are. And best of all the labor (yours)
> involved is minimal. Just stand back and let them GO!
> 
> Harrison
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> [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Pernilla
> Luttropp
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 2:13 PM
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> Subject: [OSList] Ending a one day OST with 775?
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> Dear collegues!
> I very much enjoy the conversations on this list. But I haven¹t used it for
> getting input myself until now. I'm looking forward to your wise thoughts on
> my question.
> 
> I¹ve been doing Open Space for over 10 years, some big and some small but
> most of them for only one day. Right now I¹m planning a one day Open Space
> at a school with 775 students, 16-18 years, teachers and politicians. The
> pre-group, with mostly students, decided on the theme ³What do you want to
> change in our municipality?² (I tried to argue for develop/expand instead of
> change, but they didn¹t want to develop all the bad things...).
> I might add that the politicians are really excited about this and they have
> decided to return to the school within 2 months with feedback on the issues
> that involves their work.
> 
> My question is how to end this Open Space the best way. I haven¹t done a big
> group like this for a few years and since then I¹ve changed some things -
> ³one less thing to do². I used to do prioritizing with dots in big groups
> but lately I just give space for reflections or invite for action planning,
> depending on the group.
> 
> The pre-group was worried that the 1st-graders would be too shy to announce
> their issue in the microphone. I¹m not too worried about that, but I¹m not
> sure that inviting for action planning is a good idea. It might just be the
> ³known voices² of the school that steps up (that would probably change if
> the Open Space went on for two days).
> 
> My gut feeling now is to do prioritizing, call out the top 5 issues, let
> everybody say one word each in the microphone and then end it with the
> turn-around-and-take-thenext-step. That will probably only take one hour
> (young people are usually fast). What do you think?
> 
> This is the schedule for now:
> 8:30 Introduction and creating the wall
> 9:30 Session 1
> 10.40 Session 2
> 11:45-13.15 Lunch (not negotiable time)
> 13:15 Session 3
> 14:20 Coffee break, time for finishing report and getting back in the circle
> 14:45  ???
> 16.15 Ending time
> 
> Rainy greetings from Sweden and Stockholm!
> Pernilla Luttropp
> 
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