[OSList] Fwd: Re: number of breakout groups
Michael M Pannwitz
mmpannwitz at gmail.com
Thu Jun 6 15:11:05 PDT 2019
Dear Jeff,
what I usually see in ost events in these parts and what I encourage to
show is a big sign shortly before your reach the space saying "Welcome"
(Herzlich willkommen), just as you enter the space a big sign saying "Be
prepared to be surprised" (Augen auf! Mit Überraschungen ist zu
rechnen.), a big sign stating the Theme that you see as you step into
the space, 4 (or 5) big signs posted in the space with the principles
(Tatsachen des Lebens), two big signs with a butterfly and a bumblebee,
The Law, and the agenda for the event... and a huge empty wall, the
bulletin board.
If all that is in place and spaced around the room and in plain sight
and in big letters so that it can be seen and read from any place in the
space it is an OST event, of course. Anything less or more is nothing
but a vain attempt to have "OST with a twist".
When I think of this setting or visualize it I am instantly in the mood
to post issues and quickly get into breakout groups.
And now I wonder if this simple stuff, visualized, without a spoken word
is not one of the main parameter for the event to fly.
Have a great day in San Francisco
mmp
Am 06.06.2019 um 18:52 schrieb Jeff Aitken via OSList:
> "Be prepared to be surprised" may not be as widely shared as the other
> famous OST phrases - but it sure helps facilitators as well as
> participants!
>
> Jeff
> San Francisco
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019, 9:37 AM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList
> <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Christian,
>
> yes, it depends on many factors. You identified a number of them.
> For those really interested in this aspect and passionate about
> developing a tool, have a look at the list so far:
>
> 1--- number of participants
> 2--- length of event
> 3--- number of "planned" opportunities (evening announcements,
> morning news
> 4--- degree of urgency (decision time of yesterday)
> 5--- degree of complexity of the challenge
> 6--- degree of confusion (degree of unknowing in regard to answers)
> 7--- level of potential conflict
> 8--- level of diversity among the participants
> 9--- age of participants
> 10-- productive framework (daylight, fresh and healthy food, fresh air,
> a wonderful view into the surroundings, participants staying on-site
> during the entire event... )
> ---
> ---
> ---
> Some of these parameters can be arrived at in the registration process
> (1, 8, 9)
> Some are part of the design and overall site planning (2, 3, 10)
> Some are part of the planning process (going through the prerequisites
> for an OST event in the contact meeting with the sponsor... such as 4,
> 5, 6, 7, 8).
>
> I know how to do a graph with 2 parameters... but there must be ways
> with more parameters. A computer program, an algorithm. This might be
> something an agile-ost-worker could work out.
>
> A few times I have also seen participants that would not post issues
> and
> would not go to breakout session but just hung around and did the
> butterfly. Dont we think that, systemically speaking, butterflies are
> important "centers of inactivity" providing spaces for the unexpected.
> Ok, how would that fit into a "formula"?
>
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp
>
>
>
>
>
> Am 06.06.2019 um 12:02 schrieb Dr. Christian Kemper:
> > Am 06.06.19 um 01:10 schrieb Michael M Pannwitz via OSList:
> >
> >> I wonder what additional parameters other than than number of
> >> participants and length of the event would have to be considered
> for a
> >> more reliable tool to predict the number of issues to be
> expected at
> >> an OST event.
> >
> > Hihi, Michael:-)
> >
> > As far as I experienced there is no rule or reliable answer to this
> > question - it depends on so many factors (e.g. how urgent is the
> os, how
> > complex the question, how unknown the answer, how conflictual the
> > problem, how diverse the group and so on).
> >
> > But one thing I was able to see so often is that the younger the
> people
> > are the more issues they raise. In open spaces with children
> there are
> > sometimes as many issues as people participate, the maximum I saw
> was
> > 1.3 issues per person (in a 1.5 day os with around 100 people).
> >
> > I also remember one girl who raised eleven issues in a three-day
> open
> > space with six starting times.
> >
> > And i remember the boy, who negotiated his issue in the same open
> space
> > over the whole time, again and again and supplemented and
> expanded it
> > and finally probably negotiated with all 250 people right up to the
> > action planning. It was: "Cocoa instead of milk in the breaks".
> At the
> > next meeting he reported and justified with a broad chest and
> proudly
> > that it was not implemented after he had gone through all school
> > instances (and democracy learned from it).
> >
> > Sunny greetings to all of you!
> >
> > Christian
> >
>
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Space Workers in 76 countries working in a total of 141 countries worldwide
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