[OSList] The Breakout Rooms in the River and the Park

Julie Stuart Julie at MakingIdeasVisible.com
Wed Oct 9 06:23:10 PDT 2013


Lovely work. Deeply appreciative for the love given to the river.

On Wednesday, October 9, 2013, paul levy wrote:

> The invitation is to improve the parkland and the river running through it.
>
> A hundred people from the local community come - from park rangers to girl
> scouts, from local residents to environmentalists.
>
> The Open Space runs from 9am Monday until 7pm Friday.
>
> The facilitator opens the circle and refers to the agenda on the wall. The
> breakout areas are not defined - just the times, and these only are
> suggested, running from 7am to 7pm each day.
>
> The market place opens. Someone gets up to offer a session. The park
> ranger.
>
> I'm going to be dredging the river for rubbish on Tuesday for three hours
> at 2pm
>
> Someone else gets up. A local resident. I'm going to do some clearing of
> the bushes near the playground. General tidying up, some pruning. The
> gardener will be coming along to to help. It's tomorrow from 9am until
> lunchtime.
>
> Someone else gets up. The head of the Neighbourhood Watch scheme. I'd like
> to lead a discussion on local security and then go knocking on doors with
> leaflets about it. Thursday all day.
>
> Someone else gets up. A local resident. Who wants to learn to fish? I can
> take up to seven in my boat on Thursday from 3pm.
>
> Soon there follow other sessions. Someone offers a talk on local wildlife
> and identifying edible plants in the wood. Someone else wants to start a
> petition for some new climbing equipment in the park. Someone wants to lead
> a discussion about river safety at night. Someone else, a gardener,  wants
> to repaint the tool sheds in the gardens and calls for help.
>
> The programme fills up. The group breaks out.
>
> We go to work.
>
> The closing circle is on Friday. There space in the venue remains open and
> there's a catch up circle on Wednesday for those who want to come.
>
> On Friday, the closing circle takes the form of stories told of successes,
> frustrations and there are a few slide shows of what we have all achieved.
>
> All in all, more has been achieved in a week, on less budget. All of this
> work would normally have taken a year to plan and carry out. The community
> decide to meet again in three months time.
>
>

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