Comments on: Two themes instead of three? https://past.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/?p=2271 July 30th to August 2nd 2010 (with surrounding events) Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:03:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: ranulph https://past.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/?p=2271&cpage=1#comment-130 ranulph Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:53:12 +0000 https://past.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/?p=2271#comment-130 I like this idea. It would also give us more time in that we would perhaps need less facilitations. I've not really tested the scheduling. However, there is a problem, which is to do with the time and numbers you do specify. I think we are likely to have 7 or 8 groups of 10 people: those are the sort of numbers we have spaces for. If each takes 20 to 30 minutes to report back, we are talking of up to 4 hours. I would prefer that all reports back were much shorter and much more essentialist. We will have facilitation, and the point is to use the reports to bring the groups together so that we actually have a process of synthesising. That has to be done with the material that each group brings. The smaller groups each group would break into would mostly need to be in the same space as each other, because those are the spaces available. This may be fine. Of course, there are other places and corners, and I guess they might be used. I'm just thinking through this and hope others will join in. I think this can be a really interesting way forward. But it may also have big problems. I like this idea. It would also give us more time in that we would perhaps need less facilitations. I’ve not really tested the scheduling. However, there is a problem, which is to do with the time and numbers you do specify.

I think we are likely to have 7 or 8 groups of 10 people: those are the sort of numbers we have spaces for. If each takes 20 to 30 minutes to report back, we are talking of up to 4 hours. I would prefer that all reports back were much shorter and much more essentialist. We will have facilitation, and the point is to use the reports to bring the groups together so that we actually have a process of synthesising. That has to be done with the material that each group brings.

The smaller groups each group would break into would mostly need to be in the same space as each other, because those are the spaces available. This may be fine. Of course, there are other places and corners, and I guess they might be used.

I’m just thinking through this and hope others will join in. I think this can be a really interesting way forward. But it may also have big problems.

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