ExchangeEveryDay Past Issues

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
�"Bill Cosby

OPEN SPACE EXPERIMENT AT WORLD FORUM

At the 2003 World Forum on Early Care and Education, Peter Hesse from Germany will lead a group of the delegates through an "Open Space" activity focusing on advocating for children. Here is Peter's description of what to expect:

"Open Space is a highly participative group-work procedure, inviting everybody to cooperate who assembles under a given discussion-subject. The essential rules:

"A subject is given and accepted as the general topic. A time-frame is given and fixed. Everybody present is considered exactly right. The moderator shortly presents the general topic and asks who would want to discuss which sub-topic under the general topic. Sub-topics are being loudly suggested. The moderator asks loudly who wants to join this/those sub-topics and forms groups of about 6 -11 participants about the originator of a sub-topic. Larger groups are being split up under the same sub-topic. When no more sub-topics are being asked for, the remaining participants go in a group they like best themselves. If the time frame is large enough and initial total participants agree, the group-results are presented by each sub-group to the total group at the end and can be shortly discussed in a conventional way by the total group."

ExchangeEveryDay

Delivered five days a week containing news, success stories, solutions, trend reports, and much more.