The Common Ground Network for Life and Choice Manual

12:15-1:00: LUNCH. This is not a "working lunch." It is a time to take a break and relax.
1:00-1:30: Full Group Session: Presentation of Opinion Survey Results
• What information did we get? Is it useful?
Discussion of tabulated results that are on large newsprint, with group
looking at areas of agreement, difference and misperceptions. Refer to
detailed instructions on conducting this session. [Appendix 3.7]
1:30-3:00: Small Group Dialogues: These are the same groups that met in the morning.
• What questions do we really want to ask one another?
• What is the best that could come out of common ground? (The group will
prepare to share something from the discussion of this last question with
the larger group.)
Discussion in small group follows format outlined in "Facilitator
Guidesheet for Second Small Group Session." [Appendix 4.3]
3:00-3:15: BREAK.
3:15-4:00: Full Group Session: Small Group reports and discussion/ Closing Reflections.
• What is in the "common ground, the area of overlap?
• What is the best that could come out of common ground?
• Next steps (?)
• Are there risks of "reentry?”
• Workshop evaluation.
• How have we experienced this day? Share metaphors/impressions.
Facilitator asks each person to think of an image, a metaphor or a wordpicture
to describe how the day felt. In a final "go-round" each person is
given the opportunity to very briefly describe that image (without
comments from others.) Example: "For me, the day felt like clearing the
high bar in the pole vault." The pass rule applies in this exercise.