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font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; "><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#811107" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">I am stepping in and out of the email stream as I have been balancing work and parental care and self care - a lovely dance that is going well, but one that does not always include keeping up with emails...</span></font></font></span></i></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#811107" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">So you will see me 'dipping back in' now and then to a few of these emails I saw going by earlier...</span></font></font></span></i></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>Thomas wrote: </div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="blue"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PostalCode"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">I actually think that Lisa Heft followed through with a smaller OS-meeting – a record hard to break.</span></font></font></div></div></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></div></span></blockquote></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#811107" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></font></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; font-style: normal;">Yes, I did facilitate an OS meeting with one participant. It was a post-conference OS on a holiday weekend - all the people they expected...went home for the rest of the holiday, and the only person attending was..the volunteer who was to help for this OS day. So I asked, 'do you want to do an experiment? see if an OS can work with 1 person?' and he was very excited to do so.</span></font></i></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>Our OS was from 8:30 in the morning to 3:30 in the afternoon, covered 16 topics, and included 5 international guests (we were in a room next to the conference center's restrooms and as these individuals came out of the other workshops on their breaks at different times in the day, they would wander by our room, see it all set up for OS, ask what was going on. We invited them in and (as you can guess) that one person would be *the* exact person to answer a question or share an experience for the topic of the moment. They would enjoy the conversation and then move onward (to the bathroom). </div><div><br></div><div>Very great experience...</div><div>If I knew my group was very small I would choose a different approach, but having had this experience we got an opportunity to do some action research about our field, which was very exciting...</div><div><br></div><div>And then, Chris Corrigan may have done either the *smallest* OS or the *largest* one ever, depending on how you look at it...when he worked with the Inuit community (yes, Chris?) and nobody showed up...and Chris held space, and held space...and at the end of the day, was it? the elder said 'we got so much done today - may we hire you back again for next month?'</div><div><br></div><div>Very great indeed...</div><div><br></div><div>And yes, I am also one of the people who has done very large OSs, over 2,000 people, several times now. </div><div>I find that the method scales up (same level of intimacy, same process) but the thing to really work on is logistics: visible signage, good sound, good site lines, lots of agenda wall space, chair set-up that aligns with safety and / or fire code needs, and so on...</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to all for co-editing and keeping an eye on the wikipedia page. I did this for some years and got a bit tired about it so I'm glad others are helping this source of information be accurate and this OS stuff not be seen by wiki edit folks as 'advertisement' ;o)</div><div><br></div><div>Lisa</div><div><br></div></span></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Lisa Heft</font></b></span></font></div><div>Consultant, Facilitator, Educator</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Opening Space</font></b></span></font></div><div><a href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net">lisaheft@openingspace.net</a></div><div><a href="http://www.openingspace.net">www.openingspace.net</a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><i><br></i></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; font-style: normal; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><i><br></i></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><i>OSLIST - the World Open Space community in conversation (English) <a href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; font-style: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#007F00">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</font></span></font></a></i></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(23, 0, 255); font-style: italic; ">Open Space World Community space (all languages) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 127, 0); font-style: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "><a href="http://openspaceworld.ning.com">http://openspaceworld.ning.com</a></span></span></font> </span></span></div></span></span></div></span></div></span></i></span></font></div></span></i></span></font></div></div></div></span></div></span></span></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></div></span></div></span></div> </body></html>*
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