We had 12 people for OSonOSinUS. Shelia was fantastic yesterday and Doug did a fabulous job today. I'll let Doug give the follow-up report about the closing.
Great conference. I'll be writing it up soon. peace, ted On 11/14/05, Tree Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > How lovely to 'see' some of your suggestions come alive in my mind. > Thanks to all. I love the 'Rainstorm': just imagining it rise and > fall has given me a fleeting glimpse of stillness in a circle of > people. Thanks for that. > > Georganne, I have not read the exact number of how many people are > attending the OSonOS in San Antonio but I venture to guess it is not > very big. 20 to 30 should work just fine with a Rainstorm. Now I'm > sitting here wondering if it would work with ten people. > > I know the OSonOS has now been closed. Doug, I hope you give us a > report! I'm having fun trying to think of all the little things I've > done and/or seen others do that I love. One time, I participated in a > three week, residential training that was pretty intense. We met from > just after breakfast through lectures in the evening after dinner. > And it was really hot and really muggy and no air conditioning in the > classrooms. We had blocks of free time, each day. But every day, > right after lunch, was a 'mandatory' play session. The teacher was > deeply skilled in play. That experience taught me a lot and I have > used games a lot. Almost any time I have found myself in the > wonderful position of being allowed to design a meeting, I toss in a > game. My games teacher taught me that a three minute game is a > valuable way to build collective knowing. Lots of kairos openings > playing 'this is a click, this is a clack', methinks. > > On 11/14/05, Jon Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Georganne > > > > Yes - I have used it with groups of 12 or even less - it still works! > > > > atb > > > > Jon > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > > Georganne Oldham > > Sent: 14 November 2005 22:03 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Ideas please for a different closing > > > > > > Hello, > > First of all, thanks to all of you who participate and share your ideas > and > > experiences so freely on the list serve. Currently, I am appreciating > the > > ideas on different closings. A quick question about the Rainstorm > exercise. > > Has anyone used it successfully with smaller groups, say 20 - 30 people? > I > > of course can imagine what it would be like with large groups. > > > > Thank you, > > Georganne Oldham > > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > > > > * > > * > > ========================================================== > > [email protected] > > ------------------------------ > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > > view the archives of [email protected]: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > > > > > -- > Warmly, > Tree Fitzpatrick > > * > * > ========================================================== > [email protected] > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of [email protected]: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > -- Humanize the Earth! http://tedernst.com * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
