The original event (FGC Gathering) as practiced is a pretty wonderful
week. There is a huge range of activities over the week. There are 60 or
more "workshops" which meet every morning for 2-1/2 hours. In many people
do sit in chairs. But virtually all are participative and
interactive. Some involve art, singing, bicycling, and yoga. Although the
workshops are planned and scheduled in advance, anyone is free to submit a
workshop proposal and all participants choose which, if any of the
workshops to attend. In the afternoons and evening there are dozens of
activities to choose from including presentations by authors,
story-telling, movies, sports, outings, dancing, games, massage, public
demonstrations - whatever people want to do, basically. Many impromptu
meetings and conversations take place. People do come up with and announce
new activities/discussions/meetings throughout the conference, though the
mechanism for doing so is not as easy or as prominent as in the type Open
Space Technology event as described in your books and by others on this
list. Given that my 15 year old son says that it was the best experience
of his life, and that this year's conference was fully booked in 6 days, 4
months in advance, suggests that it's not cruel and unusual punishment.
Jimmy
At 06:40 AM 3/10/2006, Harrison Owen wrote:
Jimmy wrote: The reason I ask, is because the overbooked
conference to which I referred,will run from a
Saturday evening through Friday Morning, with 5
full days in between. If an OS conference was
run concurrently for the overflow, we would
probably want it to be the same length.
Jimmy I am just wondering why you want to short change the Main Conference?
Personally I would not want to be the nasty so and so who made 1200 people
sit in chairs for 5 days -- while their friends and neighbors enjoyed the
freedom, growth, stimulation, learning, joy, enthusiasm, and satisfaction of
Open Space. Seems like cruel and unusual punishment to me. And this rank
injustice could be easily remedied. Just do the whole thing in Open Space.
Harrison
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Subject: Re: Longest OS Event?
At 06:17 PM 3/9/2006, Lisa Heft wrote:
>Jimmy, in my experience, about 2.5 days of Open
>Space delivers the goods - Id ask you a design
>question back again what is the purpose of the
>OS, how does it fit in to some overall longer
>(is that what you are thinking of?) event, what
>does it want to accomplish therefore how long
>should you design your event, and so on.
The reason I ask, is because the overbooked
conference to which I referred,will run from a
Saturday evening through Friday Morning, with 5
full days in between. If an OS conference was
run concurrently for the overflow, we would
probably want it to be the same length.
Jimmy
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