The number of days you meet depends on your group, their purpose and how they feel most comfortable expressing. I meet with a group annually for 10 years here and we meet for 2.5 days for years and it was never enough. We were primarily artists and found that 5 days worked much better for our purposes. We explored questions through experimentation with different art mediums and different genres. The conversations come much more slowly and 2.5 days was never enough to respond to another's art conversation with another art conversation so 5 days allowed us more time. One complete conversation in clay takes at the very least 2.5 days if you are lucky and nothing blows up in the kiln. I think other mediums and genres have the same limitations. What I love about 5 days is that it is enough time for you to forget that there is another world that doesn't work in open space ways.<div>
Pat Black<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Harrison Owen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I think it just sort of happened as most other things in the evolution of<br>
OST. In this case I think we all just realized that more than 3 days was a<br>
little much. There have been OS's going on for 5 days or more, but I have<br>
never been part of them. However I heard that effectively they felt like two<br>
OS's with a day of rest in between. That is certainly not bad, but I guess<br>
the judgment was that little new value was added.<br>
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ho<br>
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Where did the idea for 2 1/2 days come from? Why not 4 or 5 or 3?<br>
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