Dear Laura, I'm sad to hear of your situation.
My suggestion is to hold the event, and then allow the participants to decide when "it's over." I'm sure they will be happy to talk together for awhile! You might have a closing circle on the first evening and ask if people want to continue the next day; or, say that there WILL be an opening circle the next day, and then be prepared for whoever comes! I've done open spaces with less than 10 people which lasted a whole day, so I would not be surprised with any outcome! Jeff At 5:16 AM +0200 4/1/01, Laura Gamboa Herrera wrote: >Well as you know, I am organizing my first Open Space Conference here in Costa >Rica, for organizations from the four sectors (public, civil, private and >academic). I have invested like three months visiting sites, attending to >meeting, organizing the whole thing. Actually a member of our organization is >coming form Hungary, in order to help me with the conference. >And although I sent around 250 invitations (a lot of them more than two times: >fax and e mail)........so far I only have 6 participants confirmed. - Jeff Aitken Consultant/Facilitator Specialist in Open Space Process PO Box 1092 Inverness CA 94937 USA 415.669.1924 415.663.9410 fax offsite mailto:j...@svn.net Trainings in San Francisco: http://www.openspaceworld.org/wwbb/Forum1/HTML/000022.html * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== osl...@egroups.com To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed
