<div>Hi Doug,</div>
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<div>I've been doing something similar, but with different students.</div>
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<div>I began with a 3 hour session to do a full OST meeting opening, posting topics and opening the marketplace . . . Followed by two 45 minute sessions . . . and ending with "Evening News"</div>
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<div>The Time/place matrix was the same as if the event were to be @ a 5 day event.</div>
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<div>We had 5 "break-out spaces" identified . . . and the times were the "Regular meeting times for the class" In my case, we had 2 hours to work with each week, so we had two 45 minute sessions each day (Making it possible to have 10 sessions in 2 hours each meeting)</div>
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<div>This was a total of 6 weeks - </div>
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<div>1st week was opening and 1 session (5 break-out spaces) + Evening news</div>
<div>2nd- 5th weeks were "Morning Announcements" and 2 sessions + Evening News</div>
<div>6th week was delivery of the proceedings and closing.</div>
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<div>This was as "normal" an OST meeting as we could do given the time constraints . . . and it worked/</div>
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<div>I'm doing this again now without the opening (odd, but true) . . . It just happened.</div>
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<div>When the first set was completed, the space apparently never really closed and I was asked to continue the weekly meetings . . . So we are doing that with the topics being emailed to me, and I am sending a weekly email to the whole group. We are not breaking into 5 groups each week . . . It's morphed into handling @ 4 topics each time.</div>
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<div>All in all . . . If you were to delete the days in-between the meeting day, this would be one "normal OST meeting"</div>
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<div>Still playing with it and thinking that 6 weeks is about the longest for this cycle . . . Then it's time for a break . . . then another opening.</div>
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<div>Good luck,</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div>b <br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:18 PM, douglas germann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:76066.515@compuserve.com">76066.515@compuserve.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Friends--<br><br>An opportunity has been dropped in my lap, and I need your help to<br>noodle it through, please:<br>
<br>A local college created a program for beginning entrepreneurs. They now<br>have a dozen graduates of this continuing education program, and they<br>are doing follow-on sessions: once a month, from 9 to 10 am, local<br>
experts present and consult with them. For those who pay the fee for<br>this continuing portion, this session is mandatory.<br><br>Now they want to do something at these monthly meetings which will<br>encourage them to consult and conspire with one another on the<br>
challenges they are facing as they start their businesses. This is<br>voluntary.<br><br>The sessions would run from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm. Many people may have to<br>get back to work by 1:00 so may leave early.<br><br>They had a 3-hour OS session half way through their program before they<br>
graduated, so most of them have had some experience with OS.<br><br>My sense of what they need is to be sounding boards for each other, to<br>engage one another in deep and meaningful conversation, to have some<br>bonding or cohesiveness time.<br>
<br>I would like to design some way that uses OS principles that becomes<br>their way of being together. They would like me to help some of them<br>learn how to do OST, and that might be part of it.<br><br>How would you design an OS way of life for these women for their once a<br>
month meeting?<br><br>Thanks!<br><br> :- Doug.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>
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