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<DIV><SPAN class=062040423-25012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Dear
Chris</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062040423-25012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks
for sharing your thoughts. I´ve used a similair approach on occasions lately.
But I´ve used flipcharts with headers (Issue I will move forward. Name. Who will
join?) actually learnt this from Birgitt years ago but didn´t use it so much
until recently. Lately I put these flipcharts up at the start so whenever an
action item appears is the right time and action-space is ready. Your email
sparked an idea that I may try soon. First to make it more like a market place
and to put a small table at the action market place with papers and different
coloured pens and maybe prepare the space in some more creative way to look
really inviting.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062040423-25012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062040423-25012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Anyway
it´s time to sleep, tomorrow I will go skiing in the morning - we have great
winter days with lots of snow over here in west Sweden which is not that
usual.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062040423-25012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>But
Frölunda Indians are a disaster right now, although still in second place;-)
(hockey talk)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062040423-25012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Warmest regards</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=062040423-25012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Thomas</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----<BR><B>Från:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>För </B>Chris
Corrigan<BR><B>Skickat:</B> den 25 januari 2006 21:41<BR><B>Till:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Ämne:</B> Action
marketplace<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>In my continuing quest to find ways to support
action coming out of OST events, I put together a little thought for a client
today which I thought I'd share with you folks...<BR><BR>The conference we are
doing is two days of talk and networking on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. A
couple of hundred people will be coming together to discuss what they are
doing and to find others interested in their work. It is a learning
conference with no expectation for anything concrete, like a strategy opr a
statement, but rather the importance is on maximizing face time between
practitioners. Something like an OSonOS.<BR><BR>Some of the folks on the
planning committee though want to support action that does flow from the
conference and they have asked for the container to hold some energy and
intention for this without the conference becoming about 200 people trying to
come up with one action plan. No need for prioritising or even a
non-convergence type reopening of the space. I think this is a very real
need and a very realistic expectation.<BR><BR>So today we started playing with
two ideas, one new and one old. The old one is to simply add to the
small group summaries form a place for people to record next steps. The
new idea is to create an action market place next to the news wall. This
is no more complicated than a community bulletin board, in that people can
feel free to post any bits and pieces of action that they want to invite
others to join. The advantage of this system is that it allows a finer
grain of action to come forward, so for example, while there may be some
conversations that emerge in the event about what to do next, the action
market place could hold much smaller pieces that would otherwise be
lost. Action around a follow up conference would stand alongside an
invitation to join one or two people in writing a new brochure, or meeting for
coffee next week to continue a conversation. <BR><BR>I think this
approach could work in all OST gatherings, and might even be especially useful
in gatherings where action planning is a part of the process. Then you
end up with action planning taking the group in one large general direction,
but the individual passion and responsibility for little things also in
play.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>Chris<BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR><BR>CHRIS
CORRIGAN<BR>Consultation - Facilitation<BR>Open Space
Technology<BR><BR>Weblog: <A
href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot">http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot</A><BR>Site:
<A href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com">http://www.chriscorrigan.com</A> * *
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