Hi Gray, my experience is as follows: someone approaches asking for OS as they have seen me do other OS and they liked it, and they witnessed the closing circle some time... They want to do a participation stuff and think about OS because of this. They usually have just some hours (lately we did some one-days, half-days and even one 90-minutes). I explain them ...
- what ideal conditions for OS are - that at least one-day would be needed for a good airing of a subject, but that we can try and have them see what the potential could be - that I just know doing OS and believe it´s the best way, even for a shorter meeting - what results would be like (auto-organization, passions made public, good conversation, responsibility -or lack of and insight about it-, the briefing of the convs, maybe action proposals,... the spirit and discovering, maybe, that there is a better way to live & work). Not few for some hours, is it? then I let them decide. I am as frank as I can and avoid getting attached to a desire of doing OS. In fact OS is all the time happening and one can put oneself out of the way and do a bit less work... :-)! As Barry O. one day made me see, it always works. I take half-days and so as something for newcomers to have a taste of OS, and expalin it in advance. That´s why I prefer two shorter sessions than just one long. Action ideas: before closing it could be interesting a call for action as follows: distribute a sheet and ask people: "after the conversations, is there something calling for action inside you?": write some words on it and your name, state it, put it in the center and we will redistribute it with the reports. I wonder whether this would be useful or just one more thing not to do... any views on it? lolll from gray-sunny-rainy Bilbao, * Eleder BuM31 Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity* www.burumapak.blogspot.com (eus) @Eleder_BuM<http://twitter.com/Eleder_BuM> (Twitter) www.in-fluyendo.blogspot.com (esp) www.flowandshow.blogspot.com 2011/7/18 Gray Miller <[email protected]> > I have a bit of a crisis as I am trying to negotiate an open space for a > relatively large (500-700 attendee) conference that would like to > incorporate Open Space. > > Namely, I was just informed (via text message, before the meeting) that > rather than having a full day, I will have about 6 hours (beginning at > 11:30) to make the open space happen. > > I already have some of the excellent words I've heard from Lisa Heft in > mind for talking to the event manager. However, I'm curious if anyone else > has had experiences with successful half-day Open Spaces (or other event > models) and how that looked. I'd also be interested in hearing attempts that > didn't work; my impulse initially is to say to the manager "perhaps open > space is not the approach we should take here." > > However, part of that is being in unfamiliar territory; I've only done OS > in multiple-day setups. > > Any ideas or resources would be appreciated, > > Gray > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >
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