Hi Doug, I've been doing something similar, but with different students.
I began with a 3 hour session to do a full OST meeting opening, posting topics and opening the marketplace . . . Followed by two 45 minute sessions . . . and ending with "Evening News" The Time/place matrix was the same as if the event were to be @ a 5 day event. We had 5 "break-out spaces" identified . . . and the times were the "Regular meeting times for the class" In my case, we had 2 hours to work with each week, so we had two 45 minute sessions each day (Making it possible to have 10 sessions in 2 hours each meeting) This was a total of 6 weeks - 1st week was opening and 1 session (5 break-out spaces) + Evening news 2nd- 5th weeks were "Morning Announcements" and 2 sessions + Evening News 6th week was delivery of the proceedings and closing. This was as "normal" an OST meeting as we could do given the time constraints . . . and it worked/ I'm doing this again now without the opening (odd, but true) . . . It just happened. When the first set was completed, the space apparently never really closed and I was asked to continue the weekly meetings . . . So we are doing that with the topics being emailed to me, and I am sending a weekly email to the whole group. We are not breaking into 5 groups each week . . . It's morphed into handling @ 4 topics each time. All in all . . . If you were to delete the days in-between the meeting day, this would be one "normal OST meeting" Still playing with it and thinking that 6 weeks is about the longest for this cycle . . . Then it's time for a break . . . then another opening. Good luck, Best, b On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:18 PM, douglas germann <[email protected]>wrote: > Friends-- > > An opportunity has been dropped in my lap, and I need your help to > noodle it through, please: > > A local college created a program for beginning entrepreneurs. They now > have a dozen graduates of this continuing education program, and they > are doing follow-on sessions: once a month, from 9 to 10 am, local > experts present and consult with them. For those who pay the fee for > this continuing portion, this session is mandatory. > > Now they want to do something at these monthly meetings which will > encourage them to consult and conspire with one another on the > challenges they are facing as they start their businesses. This is > voluntary. > > The sessions would run from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm. Many people may have to > get back to work by 1:00 so may leave early. > > They had a 3-hour OS session half way through their program before they > graduated, so most of them have had some experience with OS. > > My sense of what they need is to be sounding boards for each other, to > engage one another in deep and meaningful conversation, to have some > bonding or cohesiveness time. > > I would like to design some way that uses OS principles that becomes > their way of being together. They would like me to help some of them > learn how to do OST, and that might be part of it. > > How would you design an OS way of life for these women for their once a > month meeting? > > Thanks! > > :- Doug. > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >
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