Non-ideal rooms any ideas?

[Doris Gottlieb]

Hi Lisa, Chris and Michael,
Thanks so much for the advice and the support. This has given me a lot of
ideas to go back and talk to the people at the venue and stand my guns about
the tables (also my instinct.) knowi ng that I’m not alone :-)

As an aside, it feels really good to know that, as a less experienced OST
practicioner I have this fantastically generous list to turn to with these
sorts of questions.  Last year I made the decision to integrate OST into my
work, and have been going out pretty actively at getting opportunities to
learn.  I’m proud that in the next 5 months I’ll have 5 opportunities
(short, but each very interesting) but at the same time I’m completely
petrified, so this support is really great.

Thanks and have a nice weekend.

Doris


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Van: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]Namens Lisa Heft
Verzonden: zaterdag 7 juni 2003 14:57
Aan: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Onderwerp: Re: Non-ideal rooms any ideas?

Hi, Doris –

I’ve made agenda walls out of office partitions, moveable exhibit walls,
banner/butcher paper hanging from very high up to all the way down so it’s
attached (by the hotel) at the ceiling and lays flat against the wall,
poster boards leaning on the wall
and of course those global (Canadian,
German) tables are also a possibility.  Hotels also have events with
exhibits – what do they use for those?

I’ve also made appointments with hotel people to ask them about (and to show
them), one by one, other adhesive possibilities.  Masking tape, blue
painters tape, Blue Tac, pushpins


I have always ‘put my foot down’ (for those of you for whom English is not a
first language this means ‘drawn the line at / been totally firm and
stubborn about / not moved an inch about) regarding placing tables for
discussion areas (and food).  What I’ve in some cases done instead is had
the hotel bring in a f-e-w café or bar tables (little tops, no chairs around
them, often designed for standing at or bar stools) to put against the wall
around the food area (so they are clearly not for sitting) but instead part
of the Open Space ‘cocktail party’ energy.  But I don’t do this very much
because I find that people very easily draw two chairs together and put
their food on one and sit on the other.

Picture a buffet at your house. People don’t necessarily sit at tables in
your living room – they sit all around wherever they are drawn to and gee,
they seem to handle that quite well.  Doris, are you worried when you do
this at your home that people will be ‘struggling to eat’ as they talk?
Have you had this problem at someone’s home?  I give you that as a way to
remember


I would let the worried/helpful man from the organization know that this
familiar way of taking care of ones’ self is just exactly what you want, on
purpose.

And most importantly of all, I am very excited for you and know you’ll have
a marvelous Open Space.

Lisa

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2325 Oregon
Berkeley, California
94705-1106   USA
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