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At 09:37 AM 5/7/2003 +0200,
<font face="verdana" size=2 color="#000080">Gabriela</font> wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="verdana" size=2 color="#000080">For
me, OST with 10 people is always so very different as with 30. And OST
with 90 participants is also so different as with 150. And an one-day is
so different to a two, or three-day OST. And it is so different, if you
have your "own" Open Space or if it is combined with another
event.</font></blockquote><br>
I certainly agree that time makes a difference (1/2 day, 1 day 2 days)
but only (in my experience) in the depth of conversation. Given more
time, people generally do go deeper -- and that is a real plus. However,
at the level of process, I fail to see any significant difference. It all
"works" just like usual. Even the time it takes to get started
is almost identical regardless of size. For a group of 25 I always expect
1 and 1/2 hours from start to "Going to Work." And the same is
true for groups of 250, 500, 1000. With 2108, guess what ? 1 and 1/2
hours.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="verdana" size=2 color="#000080"> What
do you think, is there also a special difference between 1000 and
2000?</font></blockquote><br>
None that I could see -- except more bodies and more space.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="verdana" size=2 color="#000080"> What
I know is, that your OST was an one-day-event at the end of a very big
4-days-conference. With your new experiences of today - what have you
learned about that imbedded setting?</font></blockquote><br>
An "embedded" (shades of Iraq!) Open Space is always a problem,
and one that I would choose to avoid if possible. And a 4 day conference
is (for me) definitely too long. The fatigue level really starts to rise.
Having said all that I really can't imagine an Open Space with greater
spirit and flow than we experienced. That did surprise me. I think part
of it was, people had spent 3 days sitting in rows in darkened
rooms, listening to speeches. Suddenly breaking into Open Space was not
unlike kids getting out of school.<br><br>
ho<br><br>
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