Nice Larry....really sweet. I love the way you bring the energy and the generative nature of the conversation to another level with this. Thanks for the inspiration.<br><br>Chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/19/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Larry Peterson</b> <<a href="mailto:larry@spiritedorg.com">larry@spiritedorg.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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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">Peggy you asked:</span></font></p><span class="q">
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<p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I'm intrigued with
this approach as a very creative way of handling the desire that often exists
to hear what happened in the room.</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Would you say more
about this - what sparked the idea, how many were in the fishbowl (half hour
isn't a lot of time and with 200 people, I'm imagining there were a fair number
of sessions), what question did you use to launch the fishbowl?</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">I'll
describe the fishbowl process I used in a bit more detail.<span> </span>As suggested, this event was more "guided"
than OST and this was also true of the fishbowl.<span> </span>It was not the Open Space Fishbowl that
I described earlier based on Andrew's and my experience in </span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">Australia</span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">
.<span> </span>The original
design included the fishbowl as one option but I thought it unlikely.<span> </span>But given there were only 11 topic
groups because some folks had left after lunch and maybe 100 – 125 were
left in the room.<span> </span>Given the nature
of the meeting (information) and health care professionals in </span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">Ontario</span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">
(overwhelmed) this was not a surprise.<span> </span>It did make it possible to quickly put
12 chairs on risers (not in the centre of the room as I would <span>preferred</span>).<span> </span>I
did create an empty chair, but it was soon filled.<span> </span><span>Not at all ideal in
terms of set up.</span><span> </span></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">I was in the
fishbowl to initiate, model and guide some aspects of the conversation –
it was not completely self-organized.<span>
</span>The initial question was, "What did you learn about telemedicine
in your topic group discussion?"<span>
</span>The first person to start speaking was an academic, who initially "presented"
to the room rather than engage others in the circle. His body language was to
orient toward the "audience".<span>
</span><span> </span>After he spoke I then asked
if any others had discussions that related to the ideas just presented.<span> </span>That immediately got them telling about
a point or idea from their topic group and soon others picked up and a
conversation was happening.<span> </span>The
fishbowl participants looked at me or each other and not the larger group and I
modeled this with my body language.<span>
</span>My back was to the larger group.<span>
</span>I said very little, occasionally asked about a connection between ideas
to keep the conversation aspect going.<span>
</span>New ideas beyond just reporting emerged.<span> </span>The larger group (according to my
colleague Sharon King) was very much engaged because it was not the usual "report
back".<span> </span>The CEO of the sponsor
organization said that when I announced what was coming he and his VP exchanged
looks.<span> </span>However, he was surprised at
what he learned when the report led to some synthesis and new higher level
questions.<span> </span>Yes all of this happened
in about a half-hour and when it was over, it was over.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">Hope this helps.</span></font></p><span class="sg">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">Larry</span></font></p></span><span class="q">
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