some "participant views" - perspectives with other "eyes" from events which combined the OPEN SPACE and OPEN FORUM method more - we update outcomes most freqently here
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 a surprise space for listening and empowering |
empowering or better "re"powering or re"charging" and co-creation. In an open forum - space which invites the magic. |
| Rules Procedural steps Impressions: a selection of events |
| Open-Forum - 'Magic Round Table' "Rules": |
| Each person is given an equal number of beads, stones, or any tokens representing equal units of time. The total meeting time is divided into units matching the distributed tokens, thus valuing them. Each member then introduces her/himself, and if so desired, offers a topic for dialogue. Members then give tokens to others whose proposal or offer the group wants to enlarge from the selection offered in order to empower voices and joint interests, enlarge the flow in dialogue. This "voting or encouraging" continues as topics generate more or less "empathy" or concern; and as others join in the conversation can receive tokens as encouragement to continue with their line of thought. This open, transparent format can encourage inhibited people to participate and minimize domination by authoritarian types. In case of unexpected changes in meeting duration, the tokens can be re-/de-valued inflated/deflated to match the remaining available time. This method is one approach being highlighted in this paper: http://www.open-forum.de/time-sharing.html which might provide some general orientation. |
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| The difference: The unique difference to other "time credit" methods (See www.open-forum.de/time-sharing.html) is that tokens represent not primarily speaking time, something you use up to the very end, everybody his personal budget or allotment, but to delegate and focus attention and interest by giving time to encourage and empower individual offers to the group in a dynamic fashion, so that the interest is higher as the values or quality of attention increases by "floating" embodied tokens which are given as presents or signs of encouragement during the process. The procedure: All participants sit or stand in a circle. Maybe with an inner or outer ring, and often with spaces left for people moving into the circle when they have received time credits. Typically a moderator or a volunteer who accustomed himself with the process will act as a time-keeper and independent guard of the common interest of the group. After an introductory round of very brief offers of issues or topics (1-2 minutes maximum) of proposals participants want to enlarge - if they get "encouragement" tokens, all participants and observers are invited to give tokens offers they feel most important or worthy to discuss in the session. The moderator has distributed beforehand the amount of tokens equaling the minutes planned for the roundtable. So 60 minutes sessions and 10 participants - each person will receive 6 tokens (if 30 or 60 people are in the room, each receives or 1 respectively 2 tokens). After this snapshot round of offers to the group the moderator invites all people to give their interest or empowerment tokens to the person they feel should speak up, maybe accompanied with a certain focus or question. After the above "sharing or distribution break" of a few minutes the moderator starts by asking or inviting the person which has received the most interest of visible tokens of embodied "interest" to start, if not someone else moves in. This speaker can speak as long as he/she has time credits, which the moderator collects or monitors as “used up” by visualizing the time being already used from the visible "budget". The speaker can continue if so he/she receives tokens while speaking. If someone else might want to add onto the subject until his/her time budget is used up. Short interventions while someone is speaking are not punished or encouraged as they might add-on to the issue, but are watched carefully by the moderator as they might interfere with the line of thought or the flow of the topic under discussion, and therefore are considered, even when adding only 3 words or one sentence as a full sentence as being one token used. The method can be considered a self-organizing, open, transparent, dynamic and embodied way of participation and empowerment which cultivates differences and fosters co-creation. |
| IMPRESSIONS: a SELECTION OF EVENTS (1995-2005) ... | |
| that we have photos of to record our exercises of "re-inventing dialogue and democracy" towards an art of listening and jointly subsuming and resonnating: Please follow the links for more pictures, reactions and comments of the participants. |
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we are in full swing for a line of events and side-event dialogues at the UNFCCC in December in Copenhagen. Come over - or if interested check with Heiner [at] Benking.de for details or possible dates, ways, and means ! GOVERNMENT 2.0
see voices, concepts of social media, Stammtisch 2.0 / 3.0 full Documentation (4 pages) in German 2009 Berlin HUB Sustainability Week:
- see BackgroundPapers and Open-Forum Side Events and Outcomes
1001 Actions for Dialogue - Dialogue Nights - 100001 Diversities - Events and Side-Events May-June 2008 See also details on the process and format: STAMMTISCH 2.0 and 3.0 (in German) more about and the more complete backgrounder of this 1001 dialogues 100001 diversities and 10 001 Seeds effort can be found further down at this page. 2008 Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics - ECOTHEE, Chania, Orthodox Academy of
The conference an my "COVENANT" presentation is covered in this book which was published in 2009. Missing Context and Orientations in Modern Times: [more] Please check out the various events and side-events - some where including video-conferencing - the locations and occasions - and come back for more details. Beside the Planet Diversity Dialogues we would like to highlight the EcoTHEE Agora outcomes and the 1001 Night in Weimar.
2006 Geresnet HUB Berlin
Geres-Net Open Space - Gender Research and Networking - Impressions - see also 2005: Traumland Intensivstation, Opening Spaces in an Ecumenic Church in Munich around Sciences and Hospitals around Intensive Care and Trauma: goto Impressions and Article.
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World Summit of the Information Society, WSIS, NGO Causus – Böll Stiftung, Berlin 2005 2005 ICSU –CODATA ISGI 2005 symposium in Berlin, A symposium and a OPEN FORUM - OPEN SPACE…
see: multi-track open-formats position paper 2004: 2004
„Magic Round-Tables“: „verschenken Sie Redezeit, gewinnen Sie Zuhörzeit“ 4.-6. November 2004 im FEZ Berlin
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| 2002: DAAD gender studies, Summer University at Humboldt University Rudolf Bahro Symposium, Humboldt University 
Rudolf Bahro Internationales Symposium and Open-Space - „The socio-ecological Alternative“, 2002 |
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| 2001: Bertalanffy Conference Vienna, Nov 2001 Healthy Cities - Gesunde Städte, Berlin Alexanderplatz |
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| 2000: EXPO 2000 and Future Raft Dialoge in the Circus - Chancen 2000 |
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| 1999: House of Democracy Berlin 1999 Ethikgipfel Kühlungsborn RUNDE TISCHE - Schnittstelle zwischen Experten und Bevölkerung, Rundgespräche - Eine wichtige Gesprächskultur als Voraussetzung für eine Ethik des Miteinander, |
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| 1997: Asilomar ISI - Social System Design and DAVID BOHM Dialogues, report in IFSR Newsletter
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| 1995: International Peace University, Berlin UN Climate Summit, Berlin     |
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more about DIALOGUE-
MEDIATION- PARTICIPATION-EMPOWERMENT? go
here: or here!: http://coforum.de/index.php4?OpenForum
or
HUB Berlin,
Procedere -Friederich Ebert Foundation Storytelling Rundgespraech 
UNESCO - DESD April 2009 Bonn see: 
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InWEnt Open-Space, Work for One World, Hannover 2004
