Hi Deborah,
Looking at your program, the first thing that
comes to mind is that it will work, as Open Space
always works when done with good intentions. The
second thing is that it feels a little strange to
have three sessions on one side of the night and
the fourth session on the other side. For me, the
night is a boundary and I usually use it in that
way. Usually when I do a 1,5 day Open Space
event, I have a full day first with all the
sessions and then the morning of the second day
for convergence and action planning. The night is
the time when everything from the sessions can
settle down and boil and simmer and stew.
In your time frame, with a night and a full day,
I would consider doing just storytelling and
sharing on the first day, and sessions as well as
convergence on the second day (sessions in the
morning, convergence in the afternoon, that gives
you the lunch break for printing reports).
My third thougt looking at your program is that
folks will get very hungry when dinner is at
21:00, but maybe that is normal in France.
By the way, I have abandoned the priority voting.
I find it sort of messy and clumsy. I simply open
the space again, with a new agenda for action
planning. Very elegant and powerful.
Good luck
Koos
At 19:17 20-10-2009, Déborah Maarek wrote:
Hello again,
Working on a OST for Rennes City in France, I
would like to have you experience about the
timing to propose for a 1,5 day event!
One of the pb is that the host is afraid that
many people will come only the first day or only the second day.
How can we manage this kind of situation?
Just to give you the context: The OST is about
Rennes, post carbon city. They have to reach
-20% CO2 in 2020 and they want to consult the
citizen (around 100 to 160 participants: inhabitants, companies, politics...)
My idea is to do most of the emergence part during the first day:
Day 1
16:00Opening
17:00Discussion 1
18:00Discussion 2
19:00Discussion 3
20:00News of the day
20:45End of the day
Day 2
9:00Morning news*
9:30Discussion 4
10:30End of writting the reports
11:00Reading
12:30Vote of priorities
13:00Lunch
14:00Action Plan
15:30Action Plan presentation
16:15Personal Action Plan
17:00Final cercle
18:00End of the day
My idea is that after the morning news, I will
explain to the "new" participants the process so
that they are not lost and they can do the 4th discussion.
Would it be strange?
I imagine that it is very short for printing 100
or 160 reports after the 4th discussion...
But also if I take more time, what would the
participants do during this "off" time?
If you have any suggestion, ideas or experience, I would love to hear them!!
Thank you for your help and support
Best regards,
Déborah
Déborah Maarek
Awareness Consulting
Rue de Toulouse, 15 - 1040 Brussels, Belgique
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