Longest OS Event?

Harrison Owen hhowen at verizon.net
Fri Mar 10 09:07:28 PST 2006


Sounds pretty much like Open Space to me. The only suggestion might be to
open it just a bit more to include the presently excluded. I guess the
scheduled workshops etc are pretty full up -- but who knows the "outsiders"
might bring a whole host of new talents and skills -- to say nothing of
"workshops, experiences, and the like" which the "insiders" might truly
enjoy. And then before you know it, there would not be any insider or
outsider -- just all of the folks having a great time. And please, I hope
you did not take offence at my "cruel and unusual punishment." It was
intended as a joke, but I know that sometimes my version of humor comes
across a little stridently. Sorry about that.

But seriously, it seems to me that if you have the space to do an Open
Space, you should have the space to just move the boundaries and make it all
open space. Problem solved, nobody excluded -- and the party only gets
better.

Harrison

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Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 11:18 AM
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Subject: Re: Longest OS Event?

The original event (FGC Gathering) as practiced is a pretty wonderful 
week.  There is a huge range of activities over the week.  There are 60 or 
more "workshops" which meet every morning for 2-1/2 hours.  In many people 
do sit in chairs.  But virtually all are participative and 
interactive.  Some involve art, singing, bicycling, and yoga.  Although the 
workshops are planned and scheduled in advance, anyone is free to submit a 
workshop proposal and all participants choose which, if any of the 
workshops to attend.  In the afternoons and evening there are dozens of 
activities to choose from including presentations by authors, 
story-telling, movies, sports, outings, dancing, games, massage, public 
demonstrations - whatever people want to do, basically.  Many impromptu 
meetings and conversations take place.  People do come up with and announce 
new activities/discussions/meetings throughout the conference, though the 
mechanism for doing so is not as easy or as prominent as in the type Open 
Space Technology event as described in your books and by others on this 
list.  Given that my 15 year old son says that it was the best experience 
of his life, and that this year's conference was fully booked in 6 days, 4 
months in advance, suggests that it's not cruel and unusual punishment.

Jimmy

   At 06:40 AM 3/10/2006, Harrison Owen wrote:
>Jimmy wrote: The reason I ask, is because the overbooked
>conference to which I referred,will run from a
>Saturday evening through Friday Morning, with 5
>full days in between.  If an OS conference was
>run concurrently for the overflow, we would
>probably want it to be the same length.
>
>
>Jimmy I am just wondering why you want to short change the Main Conference?
>Personally I would not want to be the nasty so and so who made 1200 people
>sit in chairs for 5 days -- while their friends and neighbors enjoyed the
>freedom, growth, stimulation, learning, joy, enthusiasm, and satisfaction
of
>Open Space. Seems like cruel and unusual punishment to me. And this rank
>injustice could be easily remedied. Just do the whole thing in Open Space.
>
>Harrison
>
>
>
>Harrison Owen
>7808 River Falls Drive
>Potomac, Maryland   20854
>Phone 301-365-2093
>Skype hhowen
>Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com
>Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Jimmy
>Pryor
>Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:30 PM
>To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>Subject: Re: Longest OS Event?
>
>At 06:17 PM 3/9/2006, Lisa Heft wrote:
> >Jimmy, in my experience, about 2.5 days of Open
> >Space delivers the goods - I’d ask you a design
> >question back again ­ what is the purpose of the
> >OS, how does it fit in to some overall longer
> >(is that what you are thinking of?) event, what
> >does it want to accomplish therefore how long
> >should you design your event, and so on.
>
>The reason I ask, is because the overbooked
>conference to which I referred,will run from a
>Saturday evening through Friday Morning, with 5
>full days in between.  If an OS conference was
>run concurrently for the overflow, we would
>probably want it to be the same length.
>
>Jimmy
>
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