[OSList] Large group small main room

Lisa Heft lisaheft at openingspace.net
Thu Apr 7 22:09:46 PDT 2011


Hi, dear Thomas -

About the small room - you know what I'm going to say, Thomas: just  
keep in mind that there are participants who may have physical  
abilities and disabilities you may not know about / may not see by  
looking. So if you are asking some folks to sit on the ground or stand  
for a long period this may or may not be comfortable for some people  
who are too shy to ask for different seating or to speak up mid- 
process to say they need to sit or move. So my recommendation is to  
think about physical access, movement, room to breathe, room to think,  
and peoples' personal (and not always obvious) abilities.

Koos you had some excellent thoughts and advice. Including...I wonder  
if there are more than several little things which are sparking your  
intuition, Thomas - about this not being the best event for Open Space?
Such as some already set elements, talking about action but perhaps a  
majority of participants will not need action, a thought about if  
action is not supported or sustainable once they leave the meeting is  
it realistic to include action planning as part of this meeting? And  
the other stuff planned the 'have to do' - of course you will see if  
this is something adjustable or if it breaks up the Open Space time in  
some way and prevents peoples' arc of thinking and interchange and  
flow.  And if you have to do too many things earlier in the meeting -  
what does that do to the Open Space?

I know you will ask all these questions and think of all these  
possibilities.

But most importantly - what does your intuition - not just your brain  
- tell you?
When is the point you push through with OS, and when do you sense that  
it is a great opportunity for some other amazing interactive dialogue  
stuff that is not OS?

I am interested in hearing how your thoughts unfold as you learn more  
from this client (and from yourself),

Lisa

Lisa Heft
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
  Opening Space
lisaheft at openingspace.net

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