[OSList] Half the conference participants doing open space?

Sandy Gee wildbalance at gmail.com
Fri May 25 01:49:06 PDT 2012


Dear colleagues,
*Me & Request for Help:*
I've informally been around OST for over a decade and facilitated a number
of events. But this latest I've been asked to do is a challenge I'd
appreciate your thoughts/comments on....

*The Challenge:*
Its a one day psychotherapy conference with expected attendance of 100+
participants. But unfortunately the venue has already been booked and paid
for and the only large enough space for all is an auditorium with fixed
rows. The next largest room is a space that could hold a circle of a little
over 50 (and no room for 2nd concentric circle). They already want most of
the morning to be conventional presentations so the OST slot was to be for
the afternoon (maybe with the marketplace the last slot before lunch).
I'm thinking that a fixed row auditorium just won't work for OST.

*My Idea:*
So I'm wondering about having just *half the conference* do OST! (and the
other half sign up in advance to pre-offered workshops) - I've no idea if
this could work or if it would be too divisive. This group have always had
a very conventional set up before, they're a fairly straight/conventional
crowd and the organisers are anyway worried about introducing OST and how
it'll go down.
But maybe the more stuffy conventional ones could do the pre-scheduled (and
big name) workshops (and sign up in advance). And we've got a 50 max space
for OST participants.

*Comments?*
Has anyone ever tried something like this?
What are your thoughts?
Do you think it could work?

I'd SO appreciate any input!
Thanks
Sandy
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