Hi, dear Eva -- Eva wrote about preparing to do an over-100-person short OS meeting where the purpose sounds like it is to give people an experiential taste of OS: <My first plan (when I was hoping to have some 30-40 people) was to have a very short opening and agenda setting (20 min) and 2 breakout spaces à 25 min each and approx. 20 min to closing and reflection over the process.> Wow. All that and breakfast too! ;o) I've seen it done. I've seen this 2-very-short-sessions with a smaller group, and I've seen a just-1-sesssion with a larger group. Frankly, I think the just-one-session is perhaps useful in different instances, but I'd opt for a quicker 2-session version to give people more of a sense of sampling a buffet (here we're talking about breakfast again!) of topics. (in US game shows there is often the lightening round where everything happens very quickly and this is what it feels like to me can be fast but great energy) Also depends if you can have all the discussions in the same big room as your opening circle. That would help with the whole people-movement thing in such a short time. Might also help if the room was super-huge to have the opening circle in the center and your 15-or-whatever discussion circles-of-chairs pre-set around the edges of the room. I'm hoping breakfast does not mean a bunch of tables all over the room? If I were to cut anything shorter I would reduce time for the closing circle reflections-comments, to allow more time for folks to post topics at the beginning. Just a thought. Jeff Aitken (US), Elena Marchuk (Russia) and Laurel Doersam (Canada) are, to me, the king and queen of successful 'shortie' OSs...which I used to think were not useful until they inspired me to try it for myself...and: depending on the objective of the OS, the logistics, the circumstances and everything, (and with a caveat to the sponsors/clients as to what a short OS will *not* deliver) can be very successful... You'll do a great job, Ms. Eva, Ms. Lisa ___________________________ L i s a H e f t Consultant, Facilitator, Educator O p e n i n g S p a c e 2325 Oregon Berkeley, California 94705-1106 USA +01 510 548-8449 [email protected] www.openingspace.net
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