The World Cafe

[Therese Fitzpatrick]

Chris, let's imagine that you are the person facilitating a one hour open space.

You open the space like you normally would. . . . only you probably do
it very, very quickly.
In this opening, you explain the timeframe just like you would explain
the time frame for an entire day in open space. . . .

And then you let people shape their time together. . . just like any
other open space.

Whatever happens. . . . will be the only thing that could or should in
that single hour.

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>From  Sat May  7 15:53:32 2005
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mixing what you say here, therese, and what i was saying earlier...

we can open the space as usual and invite folks at tables to post
their issues, opportunities and the rest on the table tops and when
they've identified for themselves the major issues, begin discussing,
and documenting key points.  give them the law of the open seat...
whenever  they feel some completion or some overwhelm, they can make
an open seat, whenever they are ready to learn and contribute
something else, they can fill an open seat.   and the whole process
could run until everyone was standing!

this would be like opening so many little open spaces and then letting
them bump into each other for as long as time allowed.  then the
question is how to process, or if to process, perhaps just distribute,
the record of the all of them.  if we numbered the tables, ppts might
refer in one document to the notes at another table, and this would be
ready-made for posting in a wiki website.  wow.



On 5/7/05, Therese Fitzpatrick <therese.fitzpatrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris, let's imagine that you are the person facilitating a one hour open space.
>
> You open the space like you normally would. . . . only you probably do
> it very, very quickly.
> In this opening, you explain the timeframe just like you would explain
> the time frame for an entire day in open space. . . .
>
> And then you let people shape their time together. . . just like any
> other open space.
>
> Whatever happens. . . . will be the only thing that could or should in
> that single hour.
>
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