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

[Harold Shinsato]

Thank you Paul - your experience report opened some major doors of 
possibility for me!

I'd love to hear more. So you didn't need a morning news every day. Did 
new sessions appear each day, did sessions get moved around, or was it 
mostly settled after the first marketplace on Monday?

Was there documentation beyond just people sharing stories? How did the 
thinking and ideas (and powerful success) of this event get moved 
forward in time?

     Thanks!
     Harold

On 10/9/13 1:59 AM, 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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