Help!

[Elwin and Joan]

Cris-

I'm with Harrison on this one. They need you more than you need...

How hard would it be for them to simply remove the tables? 

Everyone had fabulous ideas/remedies but why go there...get rid of the tables and all is done!

Wow! What a community!!

Elwin
Baltimore

--- On Wed, 4/1/09, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:
From: Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Help!
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 4:10 AM




 


 







I’ve had something similar… and
my response was “That is a marvelous room design! And what do you plan to
do? It is not Open Space, but I am sure you will think of something. And if I
can help you with it, let me know.”  We had about 4 days of total silence
– and then a phone call which started out with a lot of silence. 

 

We did Open Space with LOTS of space.

 

Harrison

 



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Behalf Of Chris Corrigan

Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:38
PM

To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU

Subject: [OSLIST] Help!

 

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.



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!



Chris    



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Open Space Technology



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