[OSLIST] Help!

[Chris Corrigan]

This is what I need guys...thanks for the wisdom, and keep it coming.

You're never too old to be stumped, and never to experienced to ask for
help!

Chris

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Esther Matte <ematte at excellence.ca> wrote:

>  I’ve had a soft/fabric covered and we used both pins and blue 3M tape. I
> thought the tape wouldn’t hold, but it did! Throughout the whole day too!
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> I’ve also had a stage, and used it as the newsroom. Worked wonderfully –
> nice overview of the room, good feeling of a “whole”.
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> The tables are definitely a downer… but I would say trust the process.
> Instead of walking the circle, walk the tables. Take more time maybe and
> make sure you do a lot of eye contact.
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> And if you do this with the tables, let us know the results and the feeling
> of it.
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> If anything else comes to mind, I’ll send another message. Good luck and
> have fun too!
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> Esther Matte
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> *De :* OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] *De la part de*Chris Corrigan
> *Envoyé :* 31 mars 2009 15:38
> *À :* OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> *Objet :* [OSLIST] Help!
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> I've been at this a long time now, but I've run up against a situation like
> this.  I'm stumped and looking for help.
>
> I;ll be opening space for a gethering of 500+ people.  The client is
> completely unwilling to set the room in a circle.  Instead, we will have 96
> tables with 6 chairs at each table packed into a spacious but full ball room
> facing a stage.  The walls of this room are incredible...they appear to be
> actually stuffed with cotton and covered in fabric.  There is little hope of
> putting anything on the walls.
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> On the plus side we will have lots of AV, so there is a goodly amount of
> technology available to play with for agenda setting and huge screen
> projection.
>
> I'm worried on a number of levels as you can imagine, but at the moment I'm
> trying to put that all aside and figure out, in this worst case scenario,
> what is the best thing we could do to Open Space?  Anyone been faced with
> similar constraints?  Help me out here...
>
> All tips and support I get on this, I'll roll up into a little document on
> "what to do when nothing is what you need it to be" and we can share it out.
>
> OSLIST group mind...activate!
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> Chris
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> Open Space Technology
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Facilitation - Training - Process Design
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