Re: [OSList] How to shift a destructive "information-meeting" to a constructive dialogue meeting?

[Michael M Pannwitz via OSList]

Dear HO,

oh yes, wake them up.
Carol is just 15.3 mi down the road from you, says Map24, so it could be 
easily and effectively handled analog... Tova and Avner require another 
approach.


Have a great weekend
greetings from Berlin where tens of thousands of us have a ball 
expanding space for refugees and Berliners to thrive in

mmp

PS: Tomorrow afternoon several grade school Syrian girls will be over 
for bicycle training...



On 18.02.2016 22:45, Harrison Owen via OSList wrote:

Good Go Thomas! And if you want to connect with folks who have done
what you are proposing to do, talk to Tova and Avner in Israel and or
Carol who happens to be here in the US. All are on OSLIST... but not
regular. I could wake them up, I think. Bottom line is just open space
with whoever cares – and get out of the way. It does work! JAnd of
course there are lot of others to consult with around the globe.

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*Sent:* Thursday, February 18, 2016 5:34 AM
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*Subject:* [OSList] How to shift a destructive "information-meeting" to
a constructive dialogue meeting?

Dear friends in Open Space/GC-list

I have decided to focus my time and energy, as much as possible, to
contributing in a critical area here in Sweden. Last year we received
160 000 asylum seekers. Of course this means some challenges but also
lots of fantastic opportunities. Many many people are engaging as
volunteers, villages who have “been sleeping” for decades wake up etc etc

One of the challenges is that neighbours often become afraid when new
asylum camps are opened near where they live. Or homes for lonely
refugee children (35 000 came last year). There are so many rumours
going on, and shit is spread on social media – so many “normal” people
are very much afraid from stories they heard – often false ones but also
that single events create pictures in people’s heads.

In my hometown one school which was being rebuilt to house lonely
refugee children was burnt down Land we had many fires like that all
over the country L

What the authorities usually do when a new housing is to open is to
invite the public to a “information-meeting” where they put some
politicians, the CEO of the company running the camp, some officials
from the municipality in front of a crowd of people who are worried and
some are even outright hostile with racist ideas. You can imagine what
usually happens… I was in one of those meetings a couple of weeks ago,
it was horrible.

I think the usual impact is:

·Increased fear and hostility towards people coming to our country from
war zones.

·Increased mistrust to the politicians and municipality.

·People at the front get more or less badly hurt.

Not a very good result. In fact it’s outright dangerous to arrange these
kind of meetings. But mostly they don’t know better. Which is quite
surprising to me as there are thousands of trained facilitators in our
country.

Since some time I have been working with colleagues in our Open Space
and Genuine Contact communities to create alternative ways to have such
meetings. We have some good ideas but would also like to hear what comes
up for you? Normally these meetings are conducted in the evening, length
of 2-3 hours. Normally they are not well planned and not facilitated
other than trying to control them. They are called “information
meetings” which says a lot.

So I’d love to hear your experiences, ideas, suggestions…

Thomas Herrmann

Open Space Consulting AB

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Re: [OSList] Whatever happens...

[Brendan McKeague via OSList]

Hi Stuart

A simple technique from my early learnings in OS - can’t remember the source - 
I usually put up at least 2 or 3 additional ‘post-it’ notes in each time slot 
that say SPE (Some Place Else) and when I’m explaining what that means (i.e. if 
there are not enough b/o spaces on the grid already, or if you don’t like the 
places that have been nominated as b/o spaces, then you are invited to nominate 
SPE - outside under a tree, in the foyer, the bar…- so that the point is 
clearly made about the group being able to create as many spaces as they chose. 

Over to them….

Cheers
Brendan


> On 13 Feb 2016, at 3:52 PM, Stuart Turner via OSList 
>  wrote:
> 
> Dear Michael
> 
> Thank you for your detailed response. There’s a lot of valuable suggestions 
> and explanations in there I’ll use in future.
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 3 Feb 2016, at 1:17 am, Michael M Pannwitz  wrote:
> 
> Dear Stuart,
> 
> in my facilitation practice and that of many others, there were always 
> preparations made for more issues than would be held by the places and 
> timeslots. Almost always, there were additional breakout space planned and 
> could quickly be set up when the need arose during marketplace or later. 
> Beginning times are more limited but regularly participants would creat 
> additional beginning times before, during and after the "regular" beginning 
> and ending times of the day.
> 
> In a multiple day event which then also has several gatherings of all 
> participants for evening news and morning announcements (in a three day event 
> that would be 4 occasions: first evening, following morning, second evening, 
> second morning... not (officially) on the last evening before the third day 
> which is reserved for Action Planning (also called Action Space)... ok, in a 
> multiple day event pariticpans are invited to post additional issues at each 
> of the 4 occasions in this example AND throughout the entire event (this 
> would require the posted issues to all remain on the bulletin board 
> throughout the event).
> 
> In this way you might have many more isssues and the need for spaces.
> 
> When you have a "regular" planning process before the event with a "planning 
> group" including the sponsor, questions such as number of spaces, length of 
> breakout sessions (sometimes these are of different lengths and since they 
> are not from lets say 10 to 11:30 but only have beginning times such as 10, 
> 11.30, 14, 15:30 etc leaving it up to the specific requirements of the 
> breakouts)... ok, if you have a planning phase, lots of these details are 
> worked on in the planning group and noty "set" by the facilitator all by him- 
> or herself.
> (For issues coming up after all the published space is used up, typically 
> extra postits for additional spaces are published after all the published 
> space is used up... this always worked but it needs to be planned for so 
> everyone involved can quickly arrange/set up the spaces... a good example is 
> the large os with 2000+ participants back in 2003 in Wuerzburg where we had 
> "predicted" 150 issues spread over three time slots requiring 50 "spaces"... 
> it turned out there were 220+ issues requiring 75 spaces... fortunately the 
> whole spaces set up was done with numbered balloons spread all over the venue 
> (in an "orderly" way), so we just added numbers 51 through 75 and let the 
> participants set up the additional spaces (the large team on the premises did 
> not have to help other than blowing up the balloons and numbering them and 
> attaching them to 1kg sand bags to keep them from floating wherever).
> 
> 
> Over the years, the bulletin board has changed from earlier versions (such as 
> the one your tried) to a version that only has times across the top and no 
> room slots, the room slots arranged through postits that have the time and 
> room symbol and can be stuck to the issues (and, of course, easily moved to 
> other issues... or the issues being moved from one beginning time to another),
> 
> That provided for more flexibility doing away with any need by anyone to 
> rearrange a structure, the structure itself bein easily modiefied by the 
> participants.
> 
> This might all sound pretty complex... once you are into it you will notice, 
> or at least I have, that participants thrive in that kind of environment: 
> Space and time are theirs, and it seems to provide just the right conditions 
> for the force of selforganisation to have a balle: No or very little control.
> 
> In your example your move to just let the participants figure it out is the 
> best thing you could have done and as far as I know its also the only thing 
> you could have... you would have never figured it out yourself for them. I 
> would not have predicted that they would do what they did in your case BUT 
> when they ran into some trouble (at least to the observer) they were already 
> well advanced into the field of selforganisation and solved it in some 
> unpre

Re: [OSList] Whatever happens...

[Stuart Turner via OSList]

Dear Brendan

Nice suggestion. Thanks.

Stuart




On 20 Feb 2016, at 10:33 am, Brendan McKeague  wrote:

Hi Stuart

A simple technique from my early learnings in OS - can’t remember the source - 
I usually put up at least 2 or 3 additional ‘post-it’ notes in each time slot 
that say SPE (Some Place Else) and when I’m explaining what that means (i.e. if 
there are not enough b/o spaces on the grid already, or if you don’t like the 
places that have been nominated as b/o spaces, then you are invited to nominate 
SPE - outside under a tree, in the foyer, the bar…- so that the point is 
clearly made about the group being able to create as many spaces as they chose. 

Over to them….

Cheers
Brendan


> On 13 Feb 2016, at 3:52 PM, Stuart Turner via OSList 
>  wrote:
> 
> Dear Michael
> 
> Thank you for your detailed response. There’s a lot of valuable suggestions 
> and explanations in there I’ll use in future.
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 3 Feb 2016, at 1:17 am, Michael M Pannwitz  wrote:
> 
> Dear Stuart,
> 
> in my facilitation practice and that of many others, there were always 
> preparations made for more issues than would be held by the places and 
> timeslots. Almost always, there were additional breakout space planned and 
> could quickly be set up when the need arose during marketplace or later. 
> Beginning times are more limited but regularly participants would creat 
> additional beginning times before, during and after the "regular" beginning 
> and ending times of the day.
> 
> In a multiple day event which then also has several gatherings of all 
> participants for evening news and morning announcements (in a three day event 
> that would be 4 occasions: first evening, following morning, second evening, 
> second morning... not (officially) on the last evening before the third day 
> which is reserved for Action Planning (also called Action Space)... ok, in a 
> multiple day event pariticpans are invited to post additional issues at each 
> of the 4 occasions in this example AND throughout the entire event (this 
> would require the posted issues to all remain on the bulletin board 
> throughout the event).
> 
> In this way you might have many more isssues and the need for spaces.
> 
> When you have a "regular" planning process before the event with a "planning 
> group" including the sponsor, questions such as number of spaces, length of 
> breakout sessions (sometimes these are of different lengths and since they 
> are not from lets say 10 to 11:30 but only have beginning times such as 10, 
> 11.30, 14, 15:30 etc leaving it up to the specific requirements of the 
> breakouts)... ok, if you have a planning phase, lots of these details are 
> worked on in the planning group and noty "set" by the facilitator all by him- 
> or herself.
> (For issues coming up after all the published space is used up, typically 
> extra postits for additional spaces are published after all the published 
> space is used up... this always worked but it needs to be planned for so 
> everyone involved can quickly arrange/set up the spaces... a good example is 
> the large os with 2000+ participants back in 2003 in Wuerzburg where we had 
> "predicted" 150 issues spread over three time slots requiring 50 "spaces"... 
> it turned out there were 220+ issues requiring 75 spaces... fortunately the 
> whole spaces set up was done with numbered balloons spread all over the venue 
> (in an "orderly" way), so we just added numbers 51 through 75 and let the 
> participants set up the additional spaces (the large team on the premises did 
> not have to help other than blowing up the balloons and numbering them and 
> attaching them to 1kg sand bags to keep them from floating wherever).
> 
> 
> Over the years, the bulletin board has changed from earlier versions (such as 
> the one your tried) to a version that only has times across the top and no 
> room slots, the room slots arranged through postits that have the time and 
> room symbol and can be stuck to the issues (and, of course, easily moved to 
> other issues... or the issues being moved from one beginning time to another),
> 
> That provided for more flexibility doing away with any need by anyone to 
> rearrange a structure, the structure itself bein easily modiefied by the 
> participants.
> 
> This might all sound pretty complex... once you are into it you will notice, 
> or at least I have, that participants thrive in that kind of environment: 
> Space and time are theirs, and it seems to provide just the right conditions 
> for the force of selforganisation to have a balle: No or very little control.
> 
> In your example your move to just let the participants figure it out is the 
> best thing you could have done and as far as I know its also the only thing 
> you could have... you would have never figured it out yourself for them. I 
> would not have predicted that they would do what they did in your case BUT 
> when they ran into some trouble (at least to the obse