[OSList] a fresh look at the meeting "agenda"

[Kári Gunnarsson]

I was talking with a client one time, and he suggested that we open
the marketplace in the morning for discussion that were to happen only
the first half of that morning, then after lunch we open the
marketplace again and then only for the discussion that were to happen
for the rest of that day, this repeated for the following day as well.

I talked him out of it, and we did one marketplace
event at the start of day one for all the time we ad and little to
none new material was added in the morning of the second day.
Now in retrospect I would like to experience the energy of having a
new marketplace after lunch, opening the time after lunch for that
market only.

with love from Iceland,
Kári

On 21 February 2013 11:51, paul levy <paul at cats3000.net> wrote:
> This also brings to mind one aspect of Open Space that might be worth
> reflecting on.
>
> Open Space Events begin with a marketplace - a wonderful rush of
> self-organising energy that results in a "programme" - often a packed one,
> set up for the whole day ahead (if it is a one-dayer). Often this programme
> remains fairly fixed and little if any new sessions are added to it over the
> day(even when there is a coming back together, say after lunch to re-open
> the market place).
>
> Yet what happens over the day is that the sessions evolve. The day emerges.
> The process develops. The content morphs.
>
> So, why not keep the market place open all day? (It often kind of is at some
> of the OS events I have participated in though often there is a feeling in
> the room that the programme bit was done at the start and there it is ). Why
> not allow that flow to flow wherever it does? Why Open and Close the
> marketplace at all? One less thing to do? - keep it open! I'm sure the
> self-organising spirit will find good ways to announce new and emerging
> sessions throughout the day without too much tinkering from the facilitator.
> Many of these new sessions will evolve out of earlier ones, many may start
> to focus on action, and some may be magically tangential.
>
> I've seen it done well and facilitated it a few times.
>
> Then we get to this magical place called END where we find out what the
> agenda WAS! That agenda then tends to feel more alive, still living, and can
> often have a "what next" feel about it.
>
> That, for me, is the perfect Open Space agenda - the one that only reveals
> itself at the end - as the thing that happened out of opening the space for
> self-organisation.
>
> warm wishes
>
> Paul Levy
>
>
> On 21 February 2013 05:12, Raffi Aftandelian <raffi_1970 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dearest Open Space and Genuine Contact friends-
>>
>> I wanted to share a blog post written by Rosa Zubizarreta. It is a fresh
>> take- to me, at least- at the idea of a meeting agenda. I believe the post
>> has interesting implications and sparks new questions whatever our practice
>> is as a facilitator.
>>
>> I really enjoy Rosa's take on process arts. As a longtime practitioner of
>> Focusing and Dynamic Facilitation (along with being a psychotherapist), she
>> has brought together both theory and practice in her writing on group
>
>
>>
>> dynamics. I also admire that she explores the intersections- the space
>> between- the different process arts communities of practice.
>>
>>  (interestingly her last name means "House on a Bridge")
>>
>> here is the post:
>>
>>
>> http://rosaz.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/easing-shifts-in-group-dynamics-with-a-new-twist-on-the-conventional-agenda
>>
>> much warmth,
>> raffi
>>
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Kári Gunnarsson
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