OSLIST Digest - 28 Oct 2007 to 31 Oct 2007 (#2007-268)

Peggy Holman peggy at opencirclecompany.com
Sat Nov 3 09:50:53 PDT 2007


Re: OSLIST Digest - 28 Oct 2007 to 31 Oct 2007 (#2007-268)To chime in with the Spirited Work experience:  We would post a list of spaces so that people who weren't familiar with the facility would know the options.  Times were up for grabs.  Often sessions got posted with times like - "after lunch" or "15 minutes after the morning circle ends".   We usually had about 60 people.  

For much larger groups, I think the grid is helpful just to keep track of what spaces are available when.  

And, as Harrison described, with longer gatherings, sometimes I'll start with a grid and once people have the swing of it, let it go.  I find it opens the space a bit wider just when people start to feel constrained by time slots.

from a Seattle filled with the colors of fall,
Peggy

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ralph Copleman 
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU 
  Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 6:31 AM
  Subject: Re: [OSLIST] OSLIST Digest - 28 Oct 2007 to 31 Oct 2007 (#2007-268)


  On 11/1/07 2:00 AM, "Craig wrote:


    Have you ever done an OS where you did not even schedule the sessions you
    simply let them happen as they need to happen, or is this schedule a needed
    basic bones of the structure?


  Yes, about ten times, but always in the context of an un-themed event.  

  I run an open space "retreat" every winter for about 30 friends and friends of friends.  It's about 48 hours of open space, but it has no "purpose" other than for folks to get away, hang out, as we say here in the US, and relax in comfortable company.  I give each event a "theme" or title, but it's deliberately meaningless.  To give you the idea, last year's theme was the slang expression, "Like, You Know, Whatever..."

  On these occasions I mark the wall for "Saturday Morning", "Saturday Afternoon", etc.  Nothing more.  It works perfectly well.  I learned this from Harrison, who used to run the old OT Symposia in this fashion.  I'm sure this approach would work in a "real" event, too, thought I cannot recall that I have ever tried it.  The community would solve any problems, I'm certain.

  One more thing to leave out, indeed.

  Greetings to all from cooling central New Jersey, USA, where the leaves are turning, and we just about have frost on the pumpkin.

  Ralph Copleman

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