[OSList] Hong Kong June 13 or 14: who likes to meet?
Michael M Pannwitz
mmpannwitz at gmail.com
Tue Jun 4 08:23:01 PDT 2013
Dear Gail,
will not be in HongKong or in Taipei
but
I am always interested in Great Surprises!
Greetings from Berlin where we will have our next Stammtisch on July
1... so drop by if in town!!
mmp
On 04.06.2013 15:27, Gail West wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <http://www.megainternational.com.hk>
>
>
> On Jun 2, 2013, at 1:15 AM, Hege Steinsland
> <steinslandhege at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <tel:31.05.2013%2014>: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>
> >>> [mailto: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>
> >>> <mailto: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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