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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Gee Sandy – You do have yourself in a tight spot. I’d go for the garden, if there is one. Then – Does the Auditorium have a stage? If so, half the group might be on the stage, and the remainder in the 1<sup>st</sup> rows facing… It is not that the folks will have to be there very long. I did something like this once, and it was rather amusing. Lots of hopping up and down sort of thing. 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But this latest I've been asked to do is a challenge I'd appreciate your thoughts/comments on....<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>The Challenge:</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm thinking that a fixed row auditorium just won't work for OST.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>My Idea:</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>Comments?</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Has anyone ever tried something like this? <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>What are your thoughts? <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Do you think it could work?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'd SO appreciate any input!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sandy<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>