[OSList] Government community engagement

Sun Jun 9 13:10:52 PDT 2019

Hi Eric,
It seems that you have a longer term consulting assignment with
pre-determined outcomes asked of you.
The County Recovery Manager probably reports to some type of Council, and
thus has a particular mandate and pre-determined outcomes.
During the year, meetings have taken place. The meetings have engaged
people, data has been generated and collected.
Within a community, various community agencies including non-profit
organizations and private businesses have been following their own mandates
and carrying on with the work regardless of what is happening with this
process.
Extra relief money is soon to happen and to handle money there must be
mechanisms in place that will have their own parameters and expected
outcomes.

Is that about right?
Have people felt any value from the meetings to date?
Has the great effort by people and agencies in the community been
acknowledged and appreciated?

And now, for some reason, there is a desire of a multi-sector meeting for
the purpose of encouraging community based activities.

Emerging from all of the above is the need for well done planning to get at
the right theme for a multi-sector meeting, with the right people. As well
as this, in our Genuine Contact way of working with OST, we would help the
client to discern the many implicit givens that are in place (the list
above conveys many of these to me) and make them explicit. By making them
explicit, a clearer picture emerges of how much space is truly being
opened, whether it is a big space or a teeny tiny space. Regardless of its
scope, the size of the space being opened needs to be authentic.
Incorrectly convey that the space is bigger than it is, and you will run
into problems. Incorrectly convey that the space is smaller than it is and
you will run into problems. Getting the amount of space just right, with
clarity in the invitation including what the givens are, and you have your
best chance for a positive experience for having used OST. I measure the
positive experience as what one experiences as results after the OST
meeting.

I feel a bit like being in the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story.

I would certainly go ahead and propose OST as the best meeting format to
use for what you are wanting to accomplish. A true, well done OST meeting,
not an OST with a twist or what I laughingly think of as a twisted Open
Space. When you propose OST, hold steady with using it in its intended form
and essence.

in genuine contact,
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On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 10:53 PM Eric M. Kapono via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Aloha all,
>
> I’m looking for references to a similar situation (more below) where OS
> was the contributing factor of success, in particular to communicate to
> government and community leaders here why OS will get the results they need.
>
>
>
> The context is the community engagement piece of recovery efforts from the
> 2018 volcano eruption in Hawaii. I’m consulting with the County Recovery
> Manager, who has been convening other types of gatherings much of this
> year. Now that disaster relief funding is closer to being on the ground,
> the County wants to convene a larger, multi-sector event, to encourage
> development of community-based recovery actions. The County is also
> planning to have a Disaster Recovery Fund setup, which would field a
> competitive process for proposed projects, some of which may have convened
> in the larger event and decided there to collaborate on a proposal.
>
>
>
> As with other parts of the recovery effort, this event would be under
> public scrutiny. It may be the largest event they’ve held, and County
> leadership is worried of perceptions and actual results coming from the
> event. In other words, there may be tendencies to have more control over
> the design/outcome of the day, in which case OS wouldn’t be the chosen
> organizing framework, but something else they’re more at ease with or
> accustomed to. I do believe, however, those community-based recovery
> actions are what they want most.
>
>
>
> Do you have links or references to similar public sector gatherings using
> OS, under scrutiny, and producing anticipated results satisfactory to
> government and community, that I might share with County leadership?
>
>
>
> Mahalo!
>
> ~Eric
>
>
>
> Eric M. Kapono, CPF
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