On April 12, 2019 at 3:24:23 PM, oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org ( oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org) wrote:
Send OSList mailing list submissions to oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org You can reach the person managing the list at oslist-ow...@lists.openspacetech.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of OSList digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: How long for opening for smaller group? (Juliane Martina Roell (Structure & Process)) 2. Re: How long for opening for smaller group? (Juliane Martina Roell (Structure & Process)) 3. Re: How long for opening for smaller group? (Michael M Pannwitz) 4. Re: How long for opening for smaller group? (Michael M Pannwitz) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:45:52 +0200 From: "Juliane Martina Roell (Structure & Process)" <juli...@structureprocess.com> To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] How long for opening for smaller group? Message-ID: <6f851e00-d720-45f9-3b6c-7f0f411a9...@structureprocess.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Jake Yeager via OSList schrieb am 11.04.19 um 01:49: > I am intrigued by the fact that you do not use pre-determined > session slots. (...) > What do you find to be the pros and cons of having the participants > handle time and, I assume, space management? One less thing to do for me. :o) By _not_ predefining "slots", I show people directly that *they can decide how to spend their time - freely*. In the moment. change their idea about what is important spontaneously. and so on. Pre-defined slots often create a "program" for the day whereas an open schedule creates much more flow, spontaneous changes, interesting conflicts and solutions about space-usage... and most of all: more *initiative*. With open schedule I see much more of "Oh, I have a new idea now; I will call for a session immediately!" (goes to board, rings a bell) and much less of "oh that was interesting, but the marketplace is already full and all these other sessions are scheduled so I might wait and see and distract myself..." (And some people dislike these conflicts and the creativity and the intensity that comes with that and go for more ease and efficiency, and that may be perfectly valid depending on context.) Another advantage is that people can create very tiny sessions to fix problems. "I have this thing and I need ten minutes to..." And then people show up and BOOM it's done, one problem solved, and more capacity created to now work on other things. This never happens if all the "slots" are 45, 60, 90 minutes long. Love, Juliane. Yes, this! For my open spaces since 2007 (at least in one particular flavor) we never break up the day - not even for lunch (“At a certain time, Lunch will magically appear! If you are hungry then, feel free to partake. If not, feel free to keep doing what you’re doing.”) My experience has been that I often have to reassure certain people that it will be alright - the lack of pre-determined slots makes them nervous. By the end of the day, they are almost always happy with it - and meanwhile we have sessions (which is what I call them) ranging from 5 minutes to four and half hours, however much it truly needs. Juliane, thank you for being the first OS practitioner I’ve ever known who also practices this way. I feel less lonely. :-) Gray
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