[OSList] Ending a one day OST with 775?

[Kári Gunnarsson]

What is the three minute raindrop ceremony?

On 22 September 2012 07:29, Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Pernilla,
> here is something I tried several times. Its borrowed from the
> "Differentiation/Integration" approach and allows the "whole system present"
> to get a deeper understanding of its parts and of itself as a "whole" which
> is helpful especially if you have a "municipality" with many different
> players to go into action over a longer period:
>
> ---You/the Planning Group identify "subgroups". From your note I see there
> will be teachers, politicians and students. The students might be
> differentiated in subgroups by what grade they are in, the school
> administration might be a seperate group, the politicians ... your customer
> will know best
> ---You/the Planning Group identify ONE question for the subgroups, something
> like: The most important thing we learned today or The most urgent thing we
> should do in our municipality or ....
> ---When everyone returns to the circle, according to your schedule at 14:45,
> you ask people to group (perhaps at predetermined places in the large
> room)themselves, have an exchange on the question and formulate "The
> most..." and come back to the circle at 15:20
> ---Each group has 2 Minutes to report (if there are lets say 8 groups this
> will go on until 15:45)
> ---Now there are about 20 minutes for last things to say (not everyone will
> be able to speak, so I dont let the talking stick go around but people have
> to come to a mike and say their piece)
> ---finish off the way you indicated but if you have a very large group (too
> big for one circle) you might also have people stand up and do the raindrop
> ceremony, takes three minutes.
>
> What I have also done a few times when the os itself was just for one day,
> is to convene a couple of weeks after the event for action planning. This
> works well when you have an "organisation" such as a school, a church
> parish, a company, a policy body in a municipality... One advantage is that
> in this way new people turn up (they heard about it after the event, they
> wanted to come to the event but could not make it, they were "recruited" by
> participants of the event because those participant felt they are needed for
> the action part) and another that the exuberant "high" which os events tend
> to create has been mellowed by a couple of weeks of being back in "regular"
> life.
>
> Have a great day
> mmp
>
>
> On 21.09.2012 20:13, Pernilla Luttropp wrote:
>>
>> 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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