[OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 96, Issue 12

Gray Miller gray at graymillercreative.com
Fri Apr 12 14:18:24 PDT 2019


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Today's Topics:

1. Re: How long for opening for smaller group?
(Juliane Martina Roell (Structure & Process))
2. Re: How long for opening for smaller group?
(Juliane Martina Roell (Structure & Process))
3. Re: How long for opening for smaller group? (Michael M Pannwitz)
4. Re: How long for opening for smaller group? (Michael M Pannwitz)


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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:45:52 +0200
From: "Juliane Martina Roell (Structure & Process)"
<juliane at structureprocess.com>
To: oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
Subject: Re: [OSList] How long for opening for smaller group?
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Jake Yeager via OSList schrieb am 11.04.19 um 01:49:
> I am intrigued by the fact that you do not use pre-determined
> session slots. (...)
> What do you find to be the pros and cons of having the participants
> handle time and, I assume, space management?

One less thing to do for me. :o)


By _not_ predefining "slots", I show people directly that *they can
decide how to spend their time - freely*. In the moment. change their
idea about what is important spontaneously. and so on. Pre-defined slots
often create a "program" for the day whereas an open schedule creates
much more flow, spontaneous changes, interesting conflicts and solutions
about space-usage... and most of all: more *initiative*. With open
schedule I see much more of "Oh, I have a new idea now; I will call for
a session immediately!" (goes to board, rings a bell) and much less of
"oh that was interesting, but the marketplace is already full and all
these other sessions are scheduled so I might wait and see and distract
myself..."

(And some people dislike these conflicts and the creativity and the
intensity that comes with that and go for more ease and efficiency, and
that may be perfectly valid depending on context.)

Another advantage is that people can create very tiny sessions to fix
problems. "I have this thing and I need ten minutes to..." And then
people show up and BOOM it's done, one problem solved, and more capacity
created to now work on other things. This never happens if all the
"slots" are 45, 60, 90 minutes long.

Love,
Juliane.



Yes, this! For my open spaces since 2007 (at least in one particular
flavor) we never break up the day - not even for lunch (“At a certain time,
Lunch will magically appear! If you are hungry then, feel free to partake.
If not, feel free to keep doing what you’re doing.”) My experience has been
that I often have to reassure certain people that it will be alright - the
lack of pre-determined slots makes them nervous. By the end of the day,
they are almost always happy with it - and meanwhile we have sessions
(which is what I call them) ranging from 5 minutes to four and half hours,
however much it truly needs.

Juliane, thank you for being the first OS practitioner I’ve ever known who
also practices this way. I feel less lonely.

:-)

Gray
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