Veronique, thank you for this report, this is very exciting! I hope that a longer and bigger Open Space will serve the needs of people to feel more connected and talk freely and create a good future together.
Jeff San Francisco On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Veronique Santos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Last Thursday and Friday took place in Lisbon a very interesting 2 days > Conference under the subject “(R)Evolution of Portugal – A New World is > Possible”. > > This was mainly a conventional event with 7 panels that took place from 9 am > in the first day until 4.30pm in the second day. Each Panel had 3 or 4 > presentations of 20 minutes each, followed by a 30 minutes period of > questions and answers. From 5 pm to 7pm in the second day there was an Open > Space session organized by the Open Space Institute of Portugal. In the > traditional Conference part a number of talks took place, many real cases > were presented on sustainability and transition projects, cooperative > organizations, values and economy for a “new World”, new educational > projects, the need for a new awareness, etc. > > I have facilitated the Open Space part (having Luís Dias and Artur as > co-facilitators). The Opening, including session proposals and the market > place took place in half an hour, followed by two breakout sessions of 30 > minutes each, in 10 places, and a closing circle of 30 minutes. > > About 70 people were present and 19 sessions were offered but, after the > breakout sessions were initiated, people self-organized and many sessions > were merged with others. There was a palpable energy during these sessions, > probably as this was the first space were people could talk freely with each > other, followed by a very touching and emotional closing circle. > > During the OST session and at the closing circle some people mentioned the > need to have a bigger OST for people networking and cross-pollination of > different projects. > > I will put some photos of this OST in the NING. > > Regards, > > Véronique Santos > Open Space Institute of Portugal > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
