<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Already many thanks for your precious contributions & gems .... I feel much boosted in my confidence facilitating the event and will feed back to you in detail. The event is going to be in May only, so pls be patient...<div><br></div><div>With my best and warm regards & wishes for a lovely week-end + Chris<br><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>Le 12 avr. 2013 à 18:06, Jeff Aitken <<a href="mailto:r.jeff.aitken@gmail.com">r.jeff.aitken@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I should say that it took about 15 minutes for the sponsor to<br>introduce the evening and for me to speak the opening. All topics were<br>announced and posted on the agenda wall 15 minutes later. I was<br>pleasantly surprised.<br><br>Jeff<br><br>On 4/12/13, Jeff Aitken <<a href="mailto:r.jeff.aitken@gmail.com">r.jeff.aitken@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Chris,<br><br>Last year at the height of the Occupy gatherings, we brought 130<br>people together for a two hour evening. I did a 30 minute opening, we<br>had two 30 minute sessions for 24 topics, and used the final 30<br>minutes for report-backs from the convenors of the topics, focused on<br>what ideas or plans they are taking 'out of the room'. It was a very<br>high energy gathering. Of course we wish we devoted a day or more.<br><br>Because of the size of the church hall and the fact that some<br>breakouts were in another building, I felt ok about designing for two<br>sessions instead of trying three. For example I noticed elders taking<br>their time moving from place to place. However, if there were well<br>over 30 topics I can see that would have been a spatial challenge to<br>work with.<br><br>Jeff<br><br>On 4/12/13, chris grady <<a href="mailto:chris@chrisgrady.org">chris@chrisgrady.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Dear Chris<br><br>I recently did 200 doctors and patients in 3 hrs, and I'm about to do a<br>follow up with 300 in the same time !!<br>We offered stenographers roaving around the room to help with notetaking,<br>and whilst we had the Newsroom for effect we didn't push participants to<br>have to do their own writing up. The challenge was to move them from the<br>circle to get started. I underplayed the time for merging sessions and<br>marketplace so we kept it moving. The individual agenda sessions were<br>set<br>at 2 timeslots of 45 minutes each with no break. This was not ideal, and<br>I<br>don't know how it will work with an extra 100 people in the room. Time<br>will tell.<br><br>I am hoping the medics will like Open Space so much that they will<br>realise<br>allowing it to breathe more will help<br>I didn't stint on the time for the opening circle - because I needed to<br>calm them after an hour of key note speeches which the medics insisted<br>was<br>also needed. They are reducing that front-end speaching this time round<br>having seen the effect of Open Space.<br><br>Good luck<br>Cheers<br><br>Chris<br><br>Chris Grady<br>Chris <a href="http://Grady.Org">Grady.Org</a><br><br>Gothic House, High Road, Great Finborough, Suffolk IP14 3AQ<br>Tel: +44 1449 771007, Mob: +44 7713 643971<br><a href="mailto:chris@chrisgrady.org">chris@chrisgrady.org</a><br><br>www.chrisgrady.org<br>Associates: Kath Burlinson <http://www.kathburlinson.co.uk/>, Tom<br>Atkins<http://www.tomatkins.co.uk/><br>, Rajni Shah <http://www.rajnishah.com/> and Kate Reed (New York)<br>*CGO - Making Connections*<br><br>*Current Projects/Contracts*:<br>Course Leader – MA Arts Management Anglia Ruskin University<br>International Licensing Consultant – Stage Entertainment NL<br>Industry Liaison (shared post) – Mountview Academy of Theatre<br>Associate - Wonderbird Ltd / Consultancy<br>In development - StoryMusic2020<br><br>For more information on CGO Surgeries for theatremakers and emerging<br>artists<br>And for work using Open Space Technology go to www.chrisgrady.org<br><br><br><br><br>On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Chris Altmikus @ iDeA-Link <<br>chris.altmikus@idea-link.eu> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hello dear Open Space friends,<br><br>I am preparing for a very short OS Session, 120 minutes ... with some<br>100+<br>participants, french- and/or german-speaking.<br><br>Any experience and guidance you may be willing to share on how to open &<br>structure such a ... short ... space ? How crisp can I make the opening,<br>which I will be doing in both German & French... What is the additional<br>thing I can drop or leave doing ... ?<br><br>Gratefully yours + Chris<br><br>*Chris Altmikus*<br><br>*Human Systems @ iDeA-Link*****<br><br>*La Bovarde 37*****<br><br>*1091 Grandvaux*****<br><br>*Suisse*****<br><br>** **<br><br>*+41 33 533 31 34*****<br><br>*+41 78 935 31 34*****<br><br>*Chris.Altmikus@iDeA-Link.eu* <Chris.Altmikus@iDeA-Link.eu><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To unsubscribe send an email to OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org<br><br><br></blockquote><br></blockquote><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>