[OSList] Ending a one day OST with 775?

Sat Sep 22 12:43:00 PDT 2012

Thank you for detailed definition, Harrison. I just had in mind  'on the forehead of various people'  -
: )

Am 22.09.2012 um 15:39 schrieb Harrison Owen:

> If you leave all the posted issue papers on the wall then just ask the participants to place the sticky dots on the issues they like best (feel are the more important). They can place all the dots on one issue or spread them out any way they want to. Once done, just look at the wall/issue papers, and wherever you find an issue paper covered with sticky dots you have(obviously) a hot issue. Usually somewhere between 2 and 6 issues stand out. Forget about “top 5.” If you are really industrious, you could count the dots – but frankly that is a real pain, and I don’t think you will learn anything (useful) you didn’t already know.
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> Harrison
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> From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of"Meike Hübel | erziehungsweise e. V."
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> you mean - without taking the top 5 issues? just give them the dots?
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> Meike
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> 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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> Harrison Owen
> 7808 River Falls Dr.
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> Camden, Maine 20854
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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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> 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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