4. To start, I would like you to
consider a “question-to-run-on”
5. Quietly, please write down for yourself:
“What is the one thing that I wish had
been covered already in the meeting?
- Caveat 1: And I do not want to go home
without having addressed it somehow.”
- Caveat 2: And I am willing to share some
leadership with a group to address this topic.
7. Participants Get to Convene Sessions on Topics Participants Want to Address!
• Questions You Need Answered
• Offers and Stories You Want to Share
• Requests That You Want to Make to Others
• Topics That Need Discussion
What Happens in Open Space?
10. Open Space Plan
• Decide If You Want to Convene a Session
• Create a 5-Word Title (or shorter)
11. Open Space Plan
• Decide If You Want to Convene a Session
• Create a 5-Word Title for It
• Conveners Line Up to Say Your Title
12. Open Space Plan
• Decide If You Want to Convene a Session
• Create a 5-Word Title for It
• Conveners Line Up to Say Your Title
• We Will Designate a Place For You
13. Open Space Plan
• Decide If You Want to Convene a Session
• Create a 5-Word Title for It
• Conveners Line Up to Say Your Title
• We Will Designate a Place For You
• When All Sessions Are Named, Audience “Votes With
Their Feet” to Choose a Session and Join It
14. Open Space Plan
• Decide If You Want to Convene a Session
• Create a 5-Word Title for It
• Conveners Line Up to Say Your Title
• We Will Designate a Place For You
• When All Sessions Are Named, Audience “Votes With
Their Feet” to Choose a Session and Join It
• Convene and Discuss the Topic ~ 45 minutes
15. • What if no one comes to my session?
Questions & Possibilities
16. • What if no one comes to my session?
• Can participants roam among sessions?
Questions & Possibilities
17. • What if no one comes to my session?
• Can participants roam among sessions?
• How do we know when a session is done?
Questions & Possibilities
18. • What if no one comes to my session?
• Can participants roam among sessions?
• How do we know when a session is done?
• What if we have identical or similar topics?
Questions & Possibilities
19. (Conveners may line up at the microphones when
you are ready – please come up as we continue.)
Examples of Titles:
• Establishing Effective Community-Engagement
• Exchanging Outcome Evaluation Ideas/Methods
• Conducting Evaluations/Measurement of Impact
• Merging New-Traditional Outcomes Evaluations
• What can we do fast?
What is Your Short Title?
21. Session Titles
If you want more groups, we can work this out.
• 6.
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22. Signature Style: we can teach
you how to do this back home.
Ahmed Calvo, MD, MPH
Director, National Leadership Fellowship, Haas Center for Public Service,
Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Thought Leadership and Innovation Foundation;
Senior Medical Officer, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
avcalvo@mac.com - or acalvo@hrsa.gov