Dear Chris,
seems this list has provided varied and complex and utterly useful
feedback and advice...and there will be a great event with those 500
that are expected.
Reason I am chiming in is that I have been quite interested in spreading
open space (Harrison has spoken of the day when OST will be as widely
used as double whatever bookkeeping, in Berlin I refer to the day when
it will be as well known as the "Kleine Einmaleins" which is the small
multiplication table)and support all kinds of small and larger efforts
to assist its spreading.
Of course, the most obvious and simplest and most effective way to
spread OST is to facilitate, sponsor, etc. Open Space events.
And perhaps even more powerful, NOT to facilitate etc. events that
attempt to be something like OS events.
Actually, I have found my gentle insistence in supporting potential
sponsors of OS events to mull over "complexity, diversity, conflict,
urgency, real business issue and voluntary selfselection" and my very
gentle insistence on the basic elements "circle, breath, bulletin board
and market place" to result in the planned event at hand not to be done
using OST...and being called upon later for other events by the same
sponsor insisting on OST with all the essentials in place.
Working this way (I call it "classical" OST), I have been approached
dozens of times by participants coming up to me during OST events saying
something like: I did not really want to come to this
gathering/conference/meeting/etc. when I heard it was going to be an
Open Space...those I have been to, were awful. But this time I am
...(you fill in the typical stuff)...do you think it could also be used
in our neighborhood school (my business,the hospital I work in, etc)?
Have a great day
mmp
Chris Corrigan wrote:
I've been at this a long time now, but I've run up against a situation like
this. I'm stumped and looking for help.
I;ll be opening space for a gethering of 500+ people. The client is
completely unwilling to set the room in a circle. Instead, we will have 96
tables with 6 chairs at each table packed into a spacious but full ball room
facing a stage. The walls of this room are incredible...they appear to be
actually stuffed with cotton and covered in fabric. There is little hope of
putting anything on the walls.
On the plus side we will have lots of AV, so there is a goodly amount of
technology available to play with for agenda setting and huge screen
projection.
I'm worried on a number of levels as you can imagine, but at the moment I'm
trying to put that all aside and figure out, in this worst case scenario,
what is the best thing we could do to Open Space? Anyone been faced with
similar constraints? Help me out here...
All tips and support I get on this, I'll roll up into a little document on
"what to do when nothing is what you need it to be" and we can share it out.
OSLIST group mind...activate!
Chris
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