Re: Too Little Time

2003-06-14 Thread Gerard Muller
Hello Julie, I agree with Larry. I would tend to try to get enough time to be able to have two short rounds exept for one especially if the group is large. I remember when I started I sort of refused to do an Open Space when I felt there was too little time. Now I find myself asking myself

Re: Too Little Time

2003-06-14 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
Gerard-- Great suggestions for finding more time for Open Space in a meeting. In the example I mentioned, we changed the original design, which had a separate needs-assessment exercise before the OS and a separate exercise after for convergence and action plans, and included those tasks in the OS

Re: Too Little Time

2003-06-14 Thread Pannwitz, Michael M
Dear Elena, what is the "right place" and the "right time" that leades of next sessions should be at? hugs mmmp --Original Message Text--- From: Elena A. Marchuk Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 06:03:13 +0700 letting people know that they can work any way they want if they don't = finish the previous di

Re: Too Little Time

2003-06-14 Thread Elena A. Marchuk
e (they think that somebody should do it) but may be it is also not your case best wishes and good luck elena - Original Message - From: Julie Denny To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 7:18 PM Subject: Too Little Time I am an Associate Member of

Re: Too Little Time

2003-06-13 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
Julie-- A few months ago, a colleague and I facilitated a two-hour Open Space with a professional organization that wanted to do some future planning and get more people engaged in the tasks needed to keep the organization going. It was a small group, which was easier. We finally decided on one

Re: Too Little Time

2003-06-13 Thread Larry Peterson
Julie: What is the size of the group? This makes some difference to me in terms of design. If you really have two hours to both explore possible next steps and close the event then I make this suggestion: Do one round of people identifying the next steps for which they have a passion, and then

Too Little Time

2003-06-13 Thread Julie Denny
I am an Associate Member of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation, a think tank of Transformative Mediators, and we have a meeting next Sunday/Monday. They have asked me to facilitate one segment of the meeting in Open Space. After two days of caring and sharing, we want to decide