tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844510344016016899.post6721394676476198026..comments2024-03-28T19:36:33.870+13:00Comments on Katrina the Tester: Formality in open season at a peer conferenceKatrina Clokiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817473142273516519noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844510344016016899.post-70298199096205437692015-08-06T21:35:51.896+12:002015-08-06T21:35:51.896+12:00Thanks for your suggestions on how we could have t...Thanks for your suggestions on how we could have take an alternate approach for next time. <br /><br />I have focused on thinking about what I would do differently rather than the facilitator. I think the facilitator was reading the situation pretty well. As I stated above, I never felt unsafe and, at the time, I didn't think we had a problem. <br /><br />That said, one of the things I mentioned above was that the facilitator is the person I would turn to if I were in a similar position again. In future I would verbalise that I needed some support. Now that I've had this experience, I would recognise it as a situation where I could end up behaving this way. I would ask their for their help, so that we could work out together how to proceed.Katrina Clokiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13817473142273516519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844510344016016899.post-16912384575375141702015-08-06T21:24:45.492+12:002015-08-06T21:24:45.492+12:00Thanks for your comment Chris. I'm happy that,...Thanks for your comment Chris. I'm happy that, as a first time attendee, you enjoyed the experience and interpreted the exchanges in the way that they were intended.Katrina Clokiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13817473142273516519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844510344016016899.post-14822186134079631902015-08-06T14:45:45.030+12:002015-08-06T14:45:45.030+12:00As someone in the room who was new to both the gro...As someone in the room who was new to both the group and the format, I found this ER and open season particularly invigorating. For the most part the process was being followed, people weren't over-talking one another and what I saw occurring was simply a healthy and passionate debate. When over-talking did start to become an issue, the "shut up" was well timed, well delivered, and well received. People had a laugh, calmed down a bit, and discussion resumed. <br />The only impact I did notice was that you (Katrina) seemed to withdraw from the discussion after delivering this rebuke, possibly from discomfort or just considering the implications of having done so, and only really rejoined when the facilitator asked you a direct question to draw you back in.<br />Over the workshop there seemed to be several occasions where red cards were used that would have more appropriately been yellows (this was often pointed out by the facilitator at the time), but this particular situation you described might have been the perfect opportunity for the facilitator to interject and re-iterate the difference between the cards and thus have removed the need for your reaction.<br />Having said that, I thought Rich did a fantastic job as facilitator and as already mentioned I thought the whole event a thoroughly enjoyable experience.<br />As my first time taking part in an event of this type I can't really offer a valuable opinion as to whether more or less formalization would be more or less effective, but I can state that for someone like myself starting out in this environment, I found this format, with this level of formality, a successful method of generating healthy debate and encouraging participation. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214727197341854648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844510344016016899.post-32428431564030812232015-08-05T22:59:02.123+12:002015-08-05T22:59:02.123+12:00Reading "During this time the only cards in u...Reading "During this time the only cards in use by participants were red, the colour that indicates the person has something urgent to say that cannot wait. I believe this spell of red cards exceeded 30 minutes, [...]" and " There were people interrupting one another." made me pause. To me that's no longer a facilitated open season. If you're using red cards only, you might as well not use cards at all, as they have lost their meaning. Especially with people interrupting each other and speaking out of turn, it's become a free-for-all.<br />So having the comfort of speaking on the sidelines, a good course of action at the start of the spell would have been for everyone to take a breather and then have the facilitator lay down the law. Everyone hands in their red card and discussion continues with green and yellow only. Or you could explore different discussion formats, as the facilitated open seasons was not working for the group.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com