[OSList] 120 minutes of Open Space ….

Chris Altmikus @ iDeA-Link chris.altmikus at idea-link.eu
Fri Apr 12 09:37:13 PDT 2013


Already many thanks for your precious contributions & gems .... I feel much boosted in my confidence facilitating the event and will feed back to you in detail. The event is going to be in May only, so pls be patient...

With my best and warm regards & wishes for a lovely week-end     +    Chris


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Le 12 avr. 2013 à 18:06, Jeff Aitken <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com> a écrit :

> I should say that it took about 15 minutes for the sponsor to
> introduce the evening and for me to speak the opening. All topics were
> announced and posted on the agenda wall 15 minutes later. I was
> pleasantly surprised.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On 4/12/13, Jeff Aitken <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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:
>>> 
>>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> *Chris Altmikus*
>>>> 
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