Hi Michael,
I'd likely just re-open the space same as for action planning, but
instead the invitation is to a second round of deepening conversation
on emergent themes and issues from the previous day's proceedings.
Folks will pop up and post the themes and issues that have had all
night and morning reading to percolate. One of the benefits for the
sponsor with this approach is that it identifies who in the system
cares about the issue and is willing to take leadership around it.
Very useful for implementing change down the road--and in looking for
further input as the policy process unfolds.
Cheers,
Wendy
On 8-Apr-09, at 6:52 PM, Michael Wood wrote:
I am doing an Open Space in a couple of weeks for about a hundred
people in Health Care around the issues of workforce flexibility and
structuring.
The output will not so much be action plans as the raising of key
themes and issues which need to be taken into account by policy
makers within the Health Department. This has been communicated in
the invitation and will be highlighted again in the Sponsor's
introduction/welcome. We have also discussed feedback-loop
communications after the event so that people can see how their
input was used to shape policy.
The sponsor believes (as do I) that it could be useful to invite the
group into some preliminary `first cut' analysis of emerging themes
as a 'convergence' activity. I am wondering how to do this is way
which is somewhat more conversational than the "red dot" system.
I quite like the World Cafe convergence question "what do you see as
being patterns, themes and emerging questions?", and was thinking of
a convergence process which would involve some individual reading
time of group reports, then asking people to self organise into
groups/circles of 4 people to discuss that question for half an hour
or so, then pass the indian talking stick/microphone around to
invite reflections from each group.
Could this `mixing' of processes (OST and World Cafe) have any
downsides I am not seeing? Any thoughts on this idea or alternative
ways of converging where it's themes rather than action that need
converging?
Michael Wood
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