Have no idea what should I do....

[Peggy Holman]

Laura,

One thought to add to the wonderful repsonses you've already received.

A few years ago, I did a 2.5 day event with 6 people.  It was a board
retreat and going in I had a hard time envisioning that they'd really need
all that time.  They filled it fully.  The dynamics were the same as a large
OS and people met in virtually every configuration -- all 6 together, pairs,
3/3, etc.

Peggy


----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura Gamboa Herrera" <lauragh at planetclub.org>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 8:16 PM
Subject: Have no idea what should I do....


> Well as you know, I am organizing my first Open Space Conference here in
Costa
> Rica, for organizations from the four sectors (public, civil, private and
> academic).  I have invested like three months visiting sites, attending to
> meeting, organizing the whole thing. Actually a member of our organization
is
> coming form Hungary, in order to help me with the conference.
> And although I sent around 250 invitations (a lot of them more than two
times:
> fax and e mail)........so far I only have 6 participants confirmed. The
> conference is going to be next week, starting on Wednesday, and its a
three
> days event. And at this point I have no idea if I should canceled or what.
I am
> still waiting to some people that told me that they will let me know if
they
> will attend or not, on Monday morning........but I think it can be from no
one,
> to 5 maximum.
> What I can say is that:
> -  I feel terrible because my friend is arriving tomorrow, and I have no
face
> to tell him that I will cancel
> -  If I do it, what if the participants think that it was not as they
expected,
> cause for sure they were expecting more people
> - and I really dont know if only 6 people, it is worth it for three day
event.
> That starts Wednesday at 3 pm, and finish Friday at 3 pm. Actually the
media
> was invited at the end of the event.
>
> If anybody has a recommendation.........I will appreciate it!
>
> Greetings and thanks,
>
> Laura
>
>
> Laura Gamboa Herrera
> Phone:  (506) 226-3184
> Fax: 001-603-761-7394
> P.O. Box 57-1011
> San José, Costa Rica
>
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