[OSList] Half the conference participants doing open space?

[Eleder_BuM]

Hi Sandy,

I think that the alternative way you thought about will work well, as any
OS. Providing there´s no other possible place or opening the space standing
up (did anyone ever try?) would be out of place, it may be the best way to
act.

My doubt is: how would you manage the attendance for each option? Asking in
advance one by one? prefixing each group?

Best wishes,

Eleder (longing for a dive into the sea in Mundaka on this bright day :-)!

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2012/5/25 Sandy Gee <wildbalance at gmail.com>

> 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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