[OSList] 120 minutes of Open Space ….

[Jeff Aitken]

Hi Chris,

Last year at the height of the Occupy gatherings, we brought 130
people together for a two hour evening. I did a 30 minute opening, we
had two 30 minute sessions for 24 topics, and used the final 30
minutes for report-backs from the convenors of the topics, focused on
what ideas or plans they are taking 'out of the room'. It was a very
high energy gathering. Of course we wish we devoted a day or more.

Because of the size of the church hall and the fact that some
breakouts were in another building, I felt ok about designing for two
sessions instead of trying three. For example I noticed elders taking
their time moving from place to place. However, if there were well
over 30 topics I can see that would have been a spatial challenge to
work with.

Jeff

On 4/12/13, chris grady <chris at chrisgrady.org> wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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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