Hiya:<br><br>I see...<br><br>In my experience 3 1.5 hour sessions back to back is a heavy load for attention. I would stay at four total, which should be fine for a group of 100. I don't work much with same day storytelling, and I might be tempted to add a session to the morning of day one if I needed another.
<br><br>It seems like you have a good opportunity to deepen comittment to action if you start the action planning conversations on day two and then invite the groups to "park downhill" by leaving with a clear sense of the work to continue on Monday. Then come back Monday and continue the conversations then with the benefit of a couple of sleeps under their belts.
<br><br>I'd be interested to see how that goes actually, to have two formal action planning meeting scheduled within the context of an event. <br><br>Hope this helps...interested to see how it goes.<br><br>Chris<br><br><div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 6/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Thomas Herrmann</b> <<a href="mailto:thomas@openspaceconsulting.com">thomas@openspaceconsulting.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Hi
Chris</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">What I
was thinking about more particularily was:</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">1.
Maybe include another session in the morning day 2. I´ve planned to start at
8.00. That would mean lunch at 12 or 12.30 and less time in the afternoon for
activities such as actionplanning.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">2.
Spending less time working on actionplans, instead give time to let people give
each other feedback to bring to the action planning sessions coming
monday.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Regarding the voting and grouping of topics I still often do that. My
experience is that sponsors in organizations like to have this information and
it gives a good structure, common picture to the participants. I AM VERY CLEAR
that this is not a process to exclude any topics, that´s why I also use
re-opening (guess it is what you call non-convergence) to identify topics for
action planning. The voting/grouping does take some time and I agree a "clean"
re-opening is nice too...</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Cheers</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Thomas</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----<br><b>Från:</b> OSLIST
[mailto:<a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a>]<b>För </b>Chris
Corrigan<br><b>Skickat:</b> den 28 juni 2006 10:37<br><b>Till:</b>
<a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br><b>Ämne:</b> Re: Design question for an
OS-meeting<br><br></font></div></blockquote></div><div><span class="e" id="q_10c19eac10bd33a3_1">I canlt see anything wrong with your design
here Thomas. I would opt for "non-convergence" on day two, or more
precisely "non-prioritization" by simply re-opening the space for those that
are willing to take responsibility for convening the action teams they want to
see happen. <br><br>Other than that, it looks perfectly workable to me...or am
I missing something in your question?<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Chris<br>(Frolunda
Fan in passing!)<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Thomas
Herrmann</b> <<a href="mailto:thomas@openspaceconsulting.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">thomas@openspaceconsulting.com</a>>
wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dear
friends in Open Space<br>I am planning a two day OS-meeting and would like
to ask for any ideas from<br>you.<br>My sponsor is a headmaster. Two schools
are being merged into one unit and<br>the start will be a 2-day OS-meeting
in August. About 100 participants both <br>teachers and other
employees.<br><br>The OS-meeting is Thursday-friday and on Monday there will
be time for<br>action teams to meet to work more on the action plans. So my
question is<br>around how to get the most out of the afternoon day 2, having
in mind there <br>will be a few hours to work further on Monday. We have to
be finished by<br>15.30. Any sharing of experiences, suggestions and ideas
welcome!<br><br>Yesterday we had our pre-meeting and the design we discussed
goes like this: <br>---DAY 1---<br>Storytelling in the
morning<br>LUNCH<br>Opening<br>2 sessions (1,5 hours)<br>Evening
news<br>Dinner<br><br>---DAY 2---<br>Morning news<br>2 sessions (1,5
hours)<br>LUNCH (printing reports)<br>Reading all the reports
<br>Prioritization/grouping of topics (to get a structure of the material
and<br>info about where the energy is in the groups as a
whole)<br>Re-opening<br>Next step action
meeting<br>Closing<br>---<br>Hugs<br>Thomas
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