Hi Sandy, I think that the alternative way you thought about will work well, as any OS. Providing there´s no other possible place or opening the space standing up (did anyone ever try?) would be out of place, it may be the best way to act.
My doubt is: how would you manage the attendance for each option? Asking in advance one by one? prefixing each group? Best wishes, Eleder (longing for a dive into the sea in Mundaka on this bright day :-)! www.burumapak.blogspot.com @Eleder_BuM <http://twitter.com/Eleder_BuM> www.flowandshow.blogspot.com <http://www.burumapak.blogspot.com/> 2012/5/25 Sandy Gee <[email protected]> > Dear colleagues, > *Me & Request for Help:* > I've informally been around OST for over a decade and facilitated a number > of events. But this latest I've been asked to do is a challenge I'd > appreciate your thoughts/comments on.... > > *The Challenge:* > Its a one day psychotherapy conference with expected attendance of 100+ > participants. But unfortunately the venue has already been booked and paid > for and the only large enough space for all is an auditorium with fixed > rows. The next largest room is a space that could hold a circle of a little > over 50 (and no room for 2nd concentric circle). They already want most of > the morning to be conventional presentations so the OST slot was to be for > the afternoon (maybe with the marketplace the last slot before lunch). > I'm thinking that a fixed row auditorium just won't work for OST. > > *My Idea:* > So I'm wondering about having just *half the conference* do OST! (and the > other half sign up in advance to pre-offered workshops) - I've no idea if > this could work or if it would be too divisive. This group have always had > a very conventional set up before, they're a fairly straight/conventional > crowd and the organisers are anyway worried about introducing OST and how > it'll go down. > But maybe the more stuffy conventional ones could do the pre-scheduled > (and big name) workshops (and sign up in advance). And we've got a 50 max > space for OST participants. > > *Comments?* > Has anyone ever tried something like this? > What are your thoughts? > Do you think it could work? > > I'd SO appreciate any input! > Thanks > Sandy > > _______________________________________________ > 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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