[OSList] Hong Kong June 13 or 14: who likes to meet?

Gail West icataiw at gmail.com
Tue Jun 4 06:27:21 PDT 2013


Hi Gijs,

Sorry I won't be in Hong Kong.  Would love to see you and have a good visit
and catch up!

We're having our monthly OS Learning Exchange on this Saturday in Taipei.
 Why not drop by here before your Hong Kong committments ?  We have great
surprises here as well  [?]

Gail



On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Gijs Mega <gijs at megainternational.com.hk>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am planning to be in Hong Kong next week Thursday/Friday and "prepared
> to be surprised".
> Is anyone around for a casual talk or does anyone have a suggestion .....?
>
> Hope you are all well,
>
> Best wishes,
> Gijs
>
>
>                                     Gijs van Wezel, Facilitator
> Inspirational Business Group Meetings at lake side, 1 hr from shanghai city
>                                    www.megainternational.com.hk
>
>
> On Jun 2, 2013, at 1:15 AM, Hege Steinsland <steinslandhege at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Michael - I would love to see how you design the mindmap?
> > Do you just write the question in the middel and let people write out
> from that, or do you do something more than that?
> >
> > Hege
> >
> > 31. mai 2013 kl. 18:16 skrev Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Dear Patricio,
> >> the "Day after" contributions are collected by the participants
> themselves on a poster-sized (A1) mind map... everyone who wants to add
> something to the mindmap gets up, walks to the poster and puts it there in
> his/her own writing or expands on a strand of the mind map... pretty
> independent of the size of the group this takes 12 to 18 minutes. This
> happens very close after the beginning of the Planning Meeting and is the
> first "self-organized" step (I just stand next to the mind map holding a
> felt tipped marker... if no body steps up the Planning Meeting shuts down,
> well, to tell the truth, this has never happened).
> >>
> >> The neat thing about this mind map is that the sponsor or whoever is in
> charge for documentation rolls up the mind map (and the other documents
> that are created) and posts it again at the review meeting of the Planning
> Group shortly after the event. On the average, somewhat rough, 85% of the
> stuff that went onto the mind map (aspirations, descriptions of the future,
> perspectives...) are considered by the Planning Group to have actually been
> actualized. Not any other approach I know of that has such a record.
> >>
> >> Aside from it being used for "evaluation", the mind map is also posted
> again at the "Next Meetings" of which there is at least one about 10 weeks
> after the event (this Next Meeting is already announced with date and time
> and place in the initial invitation to the event that the Planning Group
> created). Its a very quick way to find ones way back to the event... all
> that is required is that it is posted at the Next Meeting(s), no need to
> comment or speak on it.
> >>
> >> On another level, the mind map action leaves a deep imprint (not that I
> had envisioned this but it showed up in working with it): members of the
> group wanting to contribute to the mind map STAND UP... WALK FROM THEIR
> CHAIR TO THE MIND MAP... TOUCH IT AND WRITE ON IT PERSONALLY... AND WALK
> BACK TO THEIR CHAIR (sometimes taking a little detour via the buffet to get
> coffee or an apple, after all, this was exhausting).
> >> In other words, its the first step in taking physical ownership of
> whats happening... a foretaste of open space (mind you, the Planning
> Meeting is not an os event, its a step by step structured and guided event
> with the "little" difference that nothing happens at the Planning Meeting
> that the participants dont do themselves... this has its dark side: They
> actually are planning their own event and if the sponsor is not properly
> briefed that they WILL do this and assume leadership and that he needs to
> understand this, big problems might appear).
> >>
> >> Have a great day
> >> mmp
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 31.05.2013 14:27, Patricio Bastian wrote:
> >>> Dear Elder,
> >>>
> >>> to helpanswer yourconcern.............“I specially like your starting
> >>> looking to the Day After....What is happening the day after the event?
> >>> Which perspectives do I see now? What has changed? This, I´ll try next
> >>> time, yes! “
> >>>
> >>> I mentionthat I'm developing my dissertation with that question.
> >>>
> >>> I enclose the approach:
> >>>
> >>> *Problem Formulation*
> >>>
> >>> The general question asks whether the Open Space is an effective
> >>> technique to produce sustainable organizational change and if it is
> >>> superior to other organizational intervention techniques, which are
> >>> based on smaller groups and a highly structured setting with a view of
> >>> the objectives. This question can generally be divided into the
> >>> following questions:
> >>>
> >>> • Are individuals able to self-organize when subjected to an
> >>> unstructured context?
> >>> • Open Space Is capable of producing organizational responses that the
> >>> Organization needs?
> >>> • Do organizational change (to have occurred) sustainable over time?
> >>> • Do on these indicators than traditional techniques in terms of
> >>> efficiency and effectiveness?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> *Research Objectives
> >>>
> >>> General Purpose*
> >>>
> >>> Evaluate the effectiveness of the technique of Open Space, representing
> >>> intervention techniques in large groups, to produce an organizational
> >>> change that accounts for internal and external demands of the
> Organization.
> >>>
> >>> *Specific Objectives*
> >>>
> >>> • Analyze the operation of the Open Space and organizational skill.
> >>> • Measure and analyze the impact that technology has on the
> organization.
> >>> • Compare the Open Space with other organizational intervention
> technique.
> >>> • Contribute empirical and theoretical analysis of intervention
> >>> techniques in large groups.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Of course, I appreciate your comments to the discussion in my thesis.
> >>> Your input is a valuable aid.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you, thank you very much.
> >>>
> >>> Sincerely,
> >>>
> >>> *Patricio Bastian Duarte*
> >>>
> >>> **
> >>>
> >>> *Note: *Mynative language isSpanish. Pleaseexcusetypos
> >>>
> >>> *De:*oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org
> >>> [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] *En nombre de
> *Eleder_BuM
> >>> *Enviado el:* viernes, 31 de mayo de 2013 5:50
> >>> *Para:* Michael M Pannwitz; World wide Open Space Technology email list
> >>> *Asunto:* Re: [OSList] What to do when a conflicted and important part
> >>> is missing?
> >>>
> >>> Hi Michael!
> >>>
> >>> I´ll say that till now, I used to hold much less detailed preparation
> >>> meetings.
> >>>
> >>> I would just come, say hello, and, more or less,...
> >>>
> >>> 1. explain briefly OST for the ones that don´t know it: best
> conditions,
> >>> how the event will go on, what the resulsts are,...
> >>>
> >>> 2. open a wide conversation to get to the core of their invitation.
> Then
> >>> I would write a draft and fix it with the core group during the days
> after.
> >>>
> >>> 3. Spend dome time thinking on the invitation process: who&hows,...
> >>>
> >>> 4. speak about all the logistics, place, food, materials, helped by a
> >>> mind-map in which I have organized all this info
> >>>
> >>> And it has worked ok so far.
> >>>
> >>> Knowing that your more detailed and paused focus worked hundred of
> times
> >>> makes me open to try (some part of) it next time.
> >>>
> >>> I specially like your starting looking to the Day After....What is
> >>> happening the day after the event? Which perspectives do I see now?
> What
> >>> has changed? This, I´ll try next time, yes!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> It´s weird for me, anyway, to spend a 10:00-16:00 time slot in the
> >>> preparation,... and it really makes sense, the sponsors and the
> >>> facilitator start opening space in a calm and passionate way from the
> >>> preparation meeting!
> >>>
> >>> Thanks so much for your wise advice and rich information pieces,
> >>>
> >>> best,
> >>>
> >>> Eleder
> >>>
> >>> 2013/5/30 Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com
> >>> <mailto:mmpannwitz at gmail.com>>
> >>>
> >>> Dear Eleder,
> >>> the core idea of the planning meeting is that its not me as facilitator
> >>> to do stuff that the sponsor of the event (and his planning group) can
> >>> do themselves.
> >>> So the first step is to find out who the sponsor is. This might sound
> >>> silly, but in real life it is often surprising that it is not clear at
> all.
> >>> If you find, that you yourself are the sponsor you can stop worrying
> and
> >>> find a facilitator for your event.
> >>> If you know you are not the sponsor and know who the sponsor is, tell
> >>> him/her that, after it is clear it is going to be an event using OST
> >>> (which means the prerequisites are in place, this must not be clear to
> >>> you but the sponsor needs to find out), that a planning group needs to
> >>> gather.
> >>> This group should in some way mirror the organisation/community/group
> >>> that is expected to gather in the open space event. Usually, the
> >>> planning group consists of 5 to 20 people.
> >>> They need to be invited by the sponsor to the planning meeting.
> >>>
> >>> Ok, here is the design of the planning meeting which takes 3,5 hours
> >>> either before lunch or later in the morning with lunch as a break or in
> >>> the afternoon or early evening... preferrably in the space in which the
> >>> os also is planned
> >>>
> >>> 10:00   Break, Arriving, Coffee …..
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 10:30   Welcome by the sponsor who introduces the facilitator for the
> >>> following steps
> >>>
> >>>        Introducing ourselves   All
> >>>        Introducing the agenda  Facilitator
> >>>
> >>> 10:45   The Day After
> >>>        What is happening on "Monday, June 17, 2013, the day after the
> >>> event? Which perspectives do I see now? What has changed?
> >>>
> >>> The group itself creates a Mindmap with their thoughts/inputs
> >>>
> >>> 11:15   My Theme for the Open Space event
> >>>        Individually                            3 minutes,
> >>>        All announce their themes               2 minutes,
> >>>        Work in subgroups                       15 minutes
> >>>        Reporting to the whole group            5 minutes
> >>>        Weighing the Themes                     10 minutes
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Break beginning at noon
> >>> Time for a look at the large meeting room and lunch
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 2:00    Our Theme / provisional
> >>>        Characteristics of an action-orienting theme….
> >>>        A small group (3 to 5) of volunteers sit in front of the entire
> >>> group and designs the theme for the meeting,  provide an extra chair
> for
> >>> inputs from the large group, fish-bowl style.
> >>>
> >>> 2:45    Who all needs to be at the conference?
> >>>        So that the expectations expressed for the day after under the
> >>> chosen theme will actually be met
> >>>        Brainstorm, identify participants essential for the process
> >>>        Check the Theme, still ok?
> >>>
> >>> 3:15 Nuts and Bolts
> >>>        Collect things to do
> >>>        Who will take care of what?
> >>>
> >>> 3:45 How was it today
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 4:00 End
> >>>
> >>> This design has been used hundreds of times and works with any group,
> >>> even teachers, lawyers, scientists and mixtures of them and especially
> >>> well with children and in neighborhood groups in all cultures around
> the
> >>> globe.
> >>>
> >>> I will seperately send you a pdf documentation with pictures of a
> >>> planning meeting.
> >>>
> >>> Greetings from Berlin
> >>> mmp
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 30.05.2013 16:56, Eleder_BuM wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Michael, you say,...
> >>> /"if they in fact meet and follow the simple design I have described on
> >>> this list."/
> >>> /
> >>> /could you tell us more about  this design?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks so much for your attention,
> >>>
> >>> Eleder
> >>>
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