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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=785422216-16121999>Peg,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=785422216-16121999>the
question you are bringing up is busying us at the moment. We try to do some
experimental work with "micro-spaces" at the moment, meetings were you run one,
may be two working sessions, maybe in a conitinuing process. By doing "short
stories" in my opinion it is not unsolusable to open the space in brief, to
bring up the themes and to make the people work. The main question is who
to arrange both: the connection off the people at the end and the fusion of the
outcomes.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=785422216-16121999>What
we tried so far:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=785422216-16121999>1
Closing the meeting with a talkingstickround, no reports, no immediate
documentation. workshop-inviters use visualizations to make a report after. The
participants get the collection as soon as possible. This works, but is not very
satisfying. People don't get an instant feeling of the "whole elephant" and
after three weeks you sufffer a bad loss of energy.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=785422216-16121999>2 In a break bitween workshops and closing round
the invitors write one-page-reports by hand. We copy immediately
and give it out to the participants at the end. This works, especially in
not very specified enviroments e.g. with voluntary participants, where you
cannot use the official communication base of an organization. It is not
very satisfying, because it is producing, like we say "Zettelwirtschaft" - piles
of papers - and leaves a lack of connection. Fully reports can follow
if possible..</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=785422216-16121999>3 .We
tried reports of three minutes each, which is working splendid in a
RTSC-setting, .but in an OS-seeting it is terrible boring. (ok ok, there
has not really been a need to try it by working on OS-rules). Anyway:
hypothesis: folks cannot integrate so many (even 10-20 ) different workouts in a
short time, when they are still hanging on there own. Written reports like
above. Summary: It is nice to hear, but you don't understand a
lot.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=785422216-16121999>4.
What is working best with a limited number of people (let's say up to 10, max.
15 working groups a round) is to generate a new social structure for 30 -45
minutes: The working groups are still sitting together in circles like leaves of
a flower and in the inner circle the facilitator is sitting with the workshop
invitors and talks about what they feel about the work in the groups and
what they think the main results have been. After this: talking stick round or
next working round. Theres is less focus on the contents and more attention to
the links bitween. For some reasons the "inner space intervention" gathers more
attention and satisfaction as any other way handling with "micro-spaces".
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=785422216-16121999>I
would like to share your experiences by doing short (and continuing)
meetings using OS</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=785422216-16121999></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=785422216-16121999>best
wishes to you all for christmas and the Y2K</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=785422216-16121999>from
Vienna</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=785422216-16121999>Erich</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>--------------------------------</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>Erich Kolenaty</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>TRAIN
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<DIV>Also, there's a practical side to this question: what is the best way to
capture the documentation from the 3.5 hour community sessions?</DIV>
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<DIV>Any thoughts would be appreciated!</DIV>
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<DIV>Peg Holman</DIV>
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