Bonjour Esther,<br> <br> My expericence with very small groups is very much the same as Tres. My worry is that the agenda seems crowded. In my experience, a conversation takes its time which is around 90 minutes to get to the heart of it. I understand that your group wants to have a action plan in the same meeting. I personnaly prefer that they sleep and dream on the conversation before they commit to a plan. It has a better chance to stick.<br> <br> Good Luck ! <br> <br> If you want, need, wish, you may contact me since we are neighbours<br> <br> Louise Brissette<br> Ipsé, <span style="font-style: italic;">soi-même en latin</span><br> +514.271.0318<br> leadershipcreateur.wordpress.com<br> un leadership créateur pour une écologie du travail<br><br><b><i>Communications Esther Matte <ematte@excellence.ca></i></b> a écrit :<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Date :
Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:29:27 -0400<br>De : Communications Esther Matte <ematte@excellence.ca><br>Objet: opening space with very small groups<br>À : OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br><br> Hello everyone!<br><br>First, let me say thank you for the wonderful learning I found in the <br>OSList. I’m new to Open Space, and even though I have yet to make my <br>“first big circle” as Ted put it recently, I feel more confident thanks to <br>you all.<br><br>I may have two possible projects with very small groups (5-7 people) <br>which is what worries me. I have participated to one OST in my <br>experiential training with Diane Gibeault (fantastic!), and co-facilitated <br>one with 45 people. But I simply cannot visualize how it works with as few <br>as 5 people. How do you do this? Do you have several rounds of discussions? <br>In separate rooms? Do people actually work by themselves and team up? Can <br>you do it in approximately 3 hours ? (Maybe 20-30 minutes opening, 2
X <br>40-minutes rounds of discussion or 3 X 30-minutes, action planning and <br>closing).<br><br>I'm sure some of you have done this. I'll be meeting with the first <br>possible group next week, and nothing is set in stone yet for the other. <br>Any comments, suggestions, ideas or warnings will be very much appreciated.<br><br>Thank you very much in advance for your time!<br><br>Esther Matte<br>Communications Esther Matte<br>1011, Marie-Victorin<br>Verchères (Québec) J0L 2R0<br>www.excellence.ca<br><br>"L'art de dire"<br><br>Tél. : (450) 583-5849<br>Téléc. : (450) 583-3513<br><br>*<br>*<br>==========================================================<br>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>------------------------------<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,<br>view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu:<br>http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html<br><br>To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST
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