Hi Sandy,<br><br>I think that the alternative way you thought about will work well, as any OS. Providing there´s no other possible place or opening the space standing up (did anyone ever try?) would be out of place, it may be the best way to act.<br>
<div style="margin-left:40px"><br></div>My doubt is: how would you manage the attendance for each option? Asking in advance one by one? prefixing each group?<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br>Eleder<font> (longing for a dive into the sea in Mundaka on this bright day :-</font>)!<br>
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</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/5/25 Sandy Gee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wildbalance@gmail.com" target="_blank">wildbalance@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Dear colleagues,<div><b>Me & Request for Help:</b></div><div>I've informally been around OST for over a decade and facilitated a number of events. But this latest I've been asked to do is a challenge I'd appreciate your thoughts/comments on....</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>The Challenge:</b></div><div>Its a one day psychotherapy conference with expected attendance of 100+ participants. But unfortunately the venue has already been booked and paid for and the only large enough space for all is an auditorium with fixed rows. The next largest room is a space that could hold a circle of a little over 50 (and no room for 2nd concentric circle). They already want most of the morning to be conventional presentations so the OST slot was to be for the afternoon (maybe with the marketplace the last slot before lunch).</div>
<div>I'm thinking that a fixed row auditorium just won't work for OST.</div><div><br></div><div><b>My Idea:</b></div><div>So I'm wondering about having just <i>half the conference</i> do OST! (and the other half sign up in advance to pre-offered workshops) - I've no idea if this could work or if it would be too divisive. This group have always had a very conventional set up before, they're a fairly straight/conventional crowd and the organisers are anyway worried about introducing OST and how it'll go down.</div>
<div>But maybe the more stuffy conventional ones could do the pre-scheduled (and big name) workshops (and sign up in advance). And we've got a 50 max space for OST participants.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Comments?</b></div>
<div>Has anyone ever tried something like this? </div><div>What are your thoughts? </div><div>Do you think it could work?</div><div><br></div><div>I'd SO appreciate any input!</div><div>Thanks</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
Sandy</div>
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