Hi Chris, Last year at the height of the Occupy gatherings, we brought 130 people together for a two hour evening. I did a 30 minute opening, we had two 30 minute sessions for 24 topics, and used the final 30 minutes for report-backs from the convenors of the topics, focused on what ideas or plans they are taking 'out of the room'. It was a very high energy gathering. Of course we wish we devoted a day or more.
Because of the size of the church hall and the fact that some breakouts were in another building, I felt ok about designing for two sessions instead of trying three. For example I noticed elders taking their time moving from place to place. However, if there were well over 30 topics I can see that would have been a spatial challenge to work with. Jeff On 4/12/13, chris grady <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Chris > > I recently did 200 doctors and patients in 3 hrs, and I'm about to do a > follow up with 300 in the same time !! > We offered stenographers roaving around the room to help with notetaking, > and whilst we had the Newsroom for effect we didn't push participants to > have to do their own writing up. The challenge was to move them from the > circle to get started. I underplayed the time for merging sessions and > marketplace so we kept it moving. The individual agenda sessions were set > at 2 timeslots of 45 minutes each with no break. This was not ideal, and I > don't know how it will work with an extra 100 people in the room. Time > will tell. > > I am hoping the medics will like Open Space so much that they will realise > allowing it to breathe more will help > I didn't stint on the time for the opening circle - because I needed to > calm them after an hour of key note speeches which the medics insisted was > also needed. They are reducing that front-end speaching this time round > having seen the effect of Open Space. > > Good luck > Cheers > > Chris > > Chris Grady > Chris Grady.Org > > Gothic House, High Road, Great Finborough, Suffolk IP14 3AQ > Tel: +44 1449 771007, Mob: +44 7713 643971 > [email protected] > > www.chrisgrady.org > Associates: Kath Burlinson <http://www.kathburlinson.co.uk/>, Tom > Atkins<http://www.tomatkins.co.uk/> > , Rajni Shah <http://www.rajnishah.com/> and Kate Reed (New York) > *CGO - Making Connections* > > *Current Projects/Contracts*: > Course Leader – MA Arts Management Anglia Ruskin University > International Licensing Consultant – Stage Entertainment NL > Industry Liaison (shared post) – Mountview Academy of Theatre > Associate - Wonderbird Ltd / Consultancy > In development - StoryMusic2020 > > For more information on CGO Surgeries for theatremakers and emerging > artists > And for work using Open Space Technology go to www.chrisgrady.org > > > > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Chris Altmikus @ iDeA-Link < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello dear Open Space friends, >> >> I am preparing for a very short OS Session, 120 minutes ... with some >> 100+ >> participants, french- and/or german-speaking. >> >> Any experience and guidance you may be willing to share on how to open & >> structure such a ... short ... space ? How crisp can I make the opening, >> which I will be doing in both German & French... What is the additional >> thing I can drop or leave doing ... ? >> >> Gratefully yours + Chris >> >> *Chris Altmikus* >> >> *Human Systems @ iDeA-Link***** >> >> *La Bovarde 37***** >> >> *1091 Grandvaux***** >> >> *Suisse***** >> >> ** ** >> >> *+41 33 533 31 34***** >> >> *+41 78 935 31 34***** >> >> *[email protected]* <[email protected]> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 .
