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<FONT FACE="Times, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>On 11/1/07 2:00 AM, "Craig wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Times, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>Have you ever done an OS where you did not even schedule the sessions you<BR>
simply let them happen as they need to happen, or is this schedule a needed<BR>
basic bones of the structure?<BR>
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Yes, about ten times, but always in the context of an un-themed event. <BR>
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I run an open space “retreat” every winter for about 30 friends and friends of friends. It’s about 48 hours of open space, but it has no “purpose” other than for folks to get away, hang out, as we say here in the US, and relax in comfortable company. I give each event a “theme” or title, but it’s deliberately meaningless. To give you the idea, last year’s theme was the slang expression, “Like, You Know, Whatever...”<BR>
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On these occasions I mark the wall for “Saturday Morning”, “Saturday Afternoon”, etc. Nothing more. It works perfectly well. I learned this from Harrison, who used to run the old OT Symposia in this fashion. I’m sure this approach would work in a “real” event, too, thought I cannot recall that I have ever tried it. The community would solve any problems, I’m certain.<BR>
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One more thing to leave out, indeed.<BR>
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Greetings to all from cooling central New Jersey, USA, where the leaves are turning, and we just about have frost on the pumpkin.<BR>
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Ralph Copleman<BR>
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P.S. If you would like to receive an invitation to this year’s “Winter Retreat” of February 8-10, let me know by private e-mail.</SPAN></FONT>
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