<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Great job!<div>Donnan<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; ">****************************************</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; ">Donnan M. 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Be Green!</span></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Apr 28, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Bui Petersen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I did it.<br><br>I facilitated my first Open Space on Saturday. As expected, it was small (only 7 people including myself). We only had 3 hours for discussions and action planning. Thanks to the great suggestions on this forum, I created the following schedule:<br><br>9-9:30 Opening (agenda creation)<br>9:30-10:10 Session I<br>10:10-10:50 Session II<br>10:50-11:30 Session III<br>11:30-12:00 Opening for Action<br><br>I did as brief an introduction as I could while still covering all the points. 11 topics were posted. Several were combined. It was interesting that the most central topic happened to be posted first and that everyone joined that discussion. I think that probably everyone needed to part of that discussion. This session also went way over time compromising the time left for other topics. However, I don't think this was a problem because the other topics didn't need as much discussion once the first one had been thoroughly dealt with. I kept reminding myself of, "Whatever happens is the only thing that could have."<br><br>As I am an integral member of the group, it was interesting staying out of the discussion. I had told the group that I for the most part would play a butterfly role. Someone suggested that I participate more actively but I don't think there was any need since everything I thought of saying, was said by someone else.<br><br>When it came to the Action Planning, things did not work quite that well. I think there was to little time for reopening the space and people generally got confused about what to do. It would have been better if there had been a substantial break before that. When I noticed the confusion setting in, I decided to facilitate more actively by helping to identifying action items and people responsible for them (actually all I did was write on a flip chart what people were saying). If there had been more time, someone else might had figured out to do this.<br><br>Overall it was a great experience. Not all the topics were "officially" discussed but they were touched on enough for everyone to be happy.<br><br>Being my first time facilitating OST, I was surprised by the the amount of preparation needed with signs, schedule etc. For such a small group and only 3 hours, it seemed to be overkill. I think I will simplify it next time. Ideally we should be able to open space every time we meet, without having to be so regimented about it.<br><br>Thanks you all for your wonderful suggestions and support.<br><br>Bui<br><br>*<br>*<br>==========================================================<br><a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><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 FAQs:<br>http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>*
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