A million thanks to you all for sharing your experience with me!
I had a big surprise from my sponsor this morning, and I now have to realign this project a bit. But I see more clearly how OS can work with small groups and how I can support their success. I feel honored to have received such help, and I will honor it by going there when the time comes with confidence in your advice, my heart, the group and the process.
Thanks again, and cheers! Esther At 01:52 2006-09-20, you wrote:
Dear Esther! I have several times conducted OS with small groups, one of them was only with three persons. Two of them had earlier OS experience, so they just used the co-created space as usually - posted their topics about what they really cared about and then started to write down to flip charts their thoughts about it. When the first outburst of inspiration was over, the time was right to look around, what others had done and written down. They walked from one topic to another and got wonderful additions to their original ideas. Third day was, as usally, for action planning, at it worked the same way. Just be relaxed and encourage people to select topics they really care about. Then remind them, that they have wonderful and rare opportunity to be with something, that they really care about, for 90 minutes and possibly they can get some enriching comments and additions. Go and do it! With best greetings, Mikk Sarv Estonia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Communications Esther Matte" <ema...@excellence.ca> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:29 PM Subject: opening space with very small groups > Hello everyone! > > First, let me say thank you for the wonderful learning I found in the > OSList. I'm new to Open Space, and even though I have yet to make my > "first big circle" as Ted put it recently, I feel more confident thanks to > you all. > > I may have two possible projects with very small groups (5-7 people) > which is what worries me. I have participated to one OST in my > experiential training with Diane Gibeault (fantastic!), and co-facilitated > one with 45 people. But I simply cannot visualize how it works with as few > as 5 people. How do you do this? Do you have several rounds of discussions? > In separate rooms? Do people actually work by themselves and team up? Can > you do it in approximately 3 hours ? (Maybe 20-30 minutes opening, 2 X > 40-minutes rounds of discussion or 3 X 30-minutes, action planning and > closing). > > I'm sure some of you have done this. I'll be meeting with the first > possible group next week, and nothing is set in stone yet for the other. > Any comments, suggestions, ideas or warnings will be very much appreciated. > > Thank you very much in advance for your time! > > Esther Matte > Communications Esther Matte > 1011, Marie-Victorin > Verchères (Québec) J0L 2R0 > www.excellence.ca > > "L'art de dire" > > Tél. : (450) 583-5849 > Téléc. : (450) 583-3513 > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
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