[OSList] 120 minutes of Open Space ….

[chris grady]

Dear Chris

I recently did 200 doctors and patients in 3 hrs, and I'm about to do a
follow up with 300 in the same time !!
We offered stenographers roaving around the room to help with notetaking,
and whilst we had the Newsroom for effect we didn't push participants to
have to do their own writing up.  The challenge was to move them from the
circle to get started. I underplayed the time for merging sessions and
marketplace so we kept it moving.  The individual agenda sessions were set
at 2 timeslots of 45 minutes each with no break.  This was not ideal, and I
don't know how it will work with an extra 100 people in the room.  Time
will tell.

I am hoping the medics will like Open Space so much that they will realise
allowing it to breathe more will help
I didn't stint on the time for the opening circle - because I needed to
calm them after an hour of key note speeches which the medics insisted was
also needed.   They are reducing that front-end speaching this time round
having seen the effect of Open Space.

Good luck
Cheers

Chris

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On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Chris Altmikus @ iDeA-Link <
chris.altmikus at idea-link.eu> wrote:

> Hello dear Open Space friends,
>
> I am preparing for a very short OS Session, 120 minutes ... with some 100+
> participants, french- and/or german-speaking.
>
> Any experience and guidance you may be willing to share on how to open &
> structure such a ... short ... space ? How crisp can I make the opening,
> which I will be doing in both German & French... What is the additional
> thing I can drop or leave doing ... ?
>
> Gratefully yours    +    Chris
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