Practice of Peave on Whidbey Island in 2003 was four days I think...or 3.5 anyway. I found it very comfortable. <br><br>Chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lisa Heft</b> <
<a href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net">lisaheft@openingspace.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;">
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<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Thomas, I run
up to you, kiss you, dance with you, eat herring with you…</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Oh. Where was
I?</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Jimmy, in my
experience, about 2.5 days of Open Space delivers the goods - I'd ask you
a design question back again – what is the purpose of the OS, how does it
fit in to some overall longer (is that what you are thinking of?) event, what
does it want to accomplish therefore how long should you design your event, and
so on.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">There is such
thing as saturation point, of sensory overload. Of being physically tired from
all that talking, laughing, puzzling, challenging, solving, wondering, and
running around from group to group in an environment full of text and words and
people and ideas. Of capacity. Of bodies minds and hearts being able to take
in more versus being full. Of giving people percolation time, down time,
reflection time, replenishment time.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Having said
that, I know others have tried longer OSs (I seem to recall, Gerard, didn't
you and Annette and colleagues do a many days one in…2000, was it? was it
10 days 10 themes? Were there days off in between?) in Denmark?</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">…or am I
just imagining things?</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Lisa</span></font></p></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q">
<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">PS: Thomas
said:</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Oooaoo, I agree with Lisa
although I´m a bit more modest in my response. Klockrent would be a clear
Swedish respons. Kind of "right on target".</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">___________________________</span></font></p>
<p><b><font color="blue" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue; font-weight: bold;">L
i s a H e f t</span></font></b></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue;">Consultant,
Facilitator, Educator</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: blue;">O p e n i n g S
p a c e</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><a href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="black">
<span style="color: black;">lisaheft@openingspace.net</span></font></a></span></font></p>
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<span style="color: black;">www.openingspace.net</span></font></a>
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