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<p class="MsoNormal">I am getting ready to lead another Open Space.<span style=""> </span>Please excuse the smallness of these
questions, but I continue to evaluate how I do Open Space, what can I learn,
and how can I do it better?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This gathering will start mid-day, have one full day, then
another half-day.<span style=""> </span>My questions are:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1.<span style=""> </span>With approx. 110
people, is your experience best with one large circle or two concentric circles
(keeps it smaller)?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2.<span style=""> </span>A technical question--If
we have to go with two concentric circles because of space, where I have a
beginning number, does any one have experience as to an estimate as to the
number of chairs for the inner and outer circles?<span style=""> </span>I have done it, but it has been a while.<span style=""> </span>Trying to remember at what number to begin
the experiment as we set up the circles.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3.<span style=""> </span>In the past, I
usually go with 1 hour and 15 minute sessions.<span style="">
</span>This gathering, even though the group is more accustomed to 1 hour
meetings, I am thinking about using the 1 and 1/12 time frame for the sessions—knowing
that when it is over, it is over.<span style=""> </span>Any
thoughts on your experiences about time—when it is a longer gathering like this
one it seems the 1 and ½ sessions could allow more freedom or space.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">4.<span style=""> </span>With a group of
this size, I plan to have Evening News at the end of each day and a closing
news on the last morning.<span style=""> </span>Often, I ask,
What have you learned?<span style=""> </span>Do you suggest
staying with that question at the end of each day or do you suggest something
different (In this gathering, I will have two evening news and one closing
news.<span style=""> </span>Generally, I find the closing news
the deepest and longest.)?<span style=""> </span>My other
concern at times is the length of such news with this large number each evening
and on the last morning, but I guess, if they get bored, they can engage the
law of two feet.<span style=""> </span>Any thoughts?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Always interested in learning from your experiences, and how
I might do what I do better.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Craig</p>
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