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Hi Deborah,<br><br>
Looking at your program, the first thing that comes to mind is that it
will work, as Open Space always works when done with good intentions. The
second thing is that it feels a little strange to have three sessions on
one side of the night and the fourth session on the other side. For me,
the night is a boundary and I usually use it in that way. Usually when I
do a 1,5 day Open Space event, I have a full day first with all the
sessions and then the morning of the second day for convergence and
action planning. The night is the time when everything from the sessions
can settle down and boil and simmer and stew.<br><br>
In your time frame, with a night and a full day, I would consider doing
just storytelling and sharing on the first day, and sessions as well as
convergence on the second day (sessions in the morning, convergence in
the afternoon, that gives you the lunch break for printing
reports).<br><br>
My third thougt looking at your program is that folks will get very
hungry when dinner is at 21:00, but maybe that is normal in
France.<br><br>
By the way, I have abandoned the priority voting. I find it sort of messy
and clumsy. I simply open the space again, with a new agenda for action
planning. Very elegant and powerful.<br><br>
Good luck<br><br>
Koos<br><br>
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At 19:17 20-10-2009, Déborah Maarek wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hello again,<br><br>
Working on a OST for Rennes City in France, I would like to have you
experience about the timing to propose for a 1,5 day event!<br><br>
One of the pb is that the host is afraid that many people will come only
the first day or only the second day.<br>
How can we manage this kind of situation?<br><br>
Just to give you the context: The OST is about Rennes, post carbon city.
They have to reach -20% CO2 in 2020 and they want to consult the citizen
(around 100 to 160 participants: inhabitants, companies,
politics...)<br><br>
My idea is to do most of the emergence part during the first
day:<br><br>
Day 1<br>
16:00Opening<br>
17:00Discussion 1<br>
18:00Discussion 2<br>
19:00Discussion 3<br>
20:00News of the day<br>
20:45End of the day<br><br>
Day 2<br><br>
9:00Morning news*<br>
9:30Discussion 4<br>
10:30End of writting the reports<br>
11:00Reading<br>
12:30Vote of priorities<br>
13:00Lunch<br>
14:00Action Plan<br>
15:30Action Plan presentation<br>
16:15Personal Action Plan<br>
17:00Final cercle<br>
18:00End of the day<br><br>
My idea is that after the morning news, I will explain to the
"new" participants the process so that they are not lost and
they can do the 4th discussion.<br>
Would it be strange?<br><br>
I imagine that it is very short for printing 100 or 160 reports after the
4th discussion...<br>
But also if I take more time, what would the participants do during this
"off" time?<br><br>
If you have any suggestion, ideas or experience, I would love to hear
them!!<br><br>
Thank you for your help and support<br><br>
Best regards,<br><br>
Déborah<br><br>
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