<div dir="ltr">Depends on what you include in "opening." Yesterday I facilitated a one-day meeting. 50 people. I always make the breakouts the same length. Between that and limits imposed by my client, I had to "schedule" the opening for 30 minutes, knowing it would really take 45. Which it did. And everything worked fine. But that 30 minutes didn't include the 30 minutes prior to that for gathering and eating breakfast foods. With a free hand, I'd have called it 8:00 gathering, 8:15 opening, 9:00 breakouts... but they'd already pushed out the "8:30 start". Doesn't matter. The opening wouldn't have started at exactly 8:15 anyway. Wouldn't be far off, I think, to say that the gathering and opening time is about as long as one breakout session and that might range from 20 to 90 minutes. But 20 minutes is a really abridged version some might take issue with as "not open space." Whatever that means. Not what I prefer, but I think it's happened. The place I'm thinking about was a monthly networking group. Otherwise, 30 mins is probably shortest I've seen. But you have to include the gathering time. My answer to "how long should the opening be?" is "how long will it take everyone to arrive and be ready to begin?" <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div> <br>--<br><br>Michael Herman<br>Michael Herman Associates</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">312-280-7838 (mobile)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><a href="http://MichaelHerman.com" target="_blank">http://MichaelHerman.com</a><br><a href="http://OpenSpaceWorld.org" target="_blank">http://OpenSpaceWorld.org</a></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 11:09 AM Tom Brown via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I’ve also done these mini open spaces. With greater and lesser success. When I have times much smaller than 2 hours I tend to think of using Lean Coffee as a form of (Open Space Light). Because of the amount of basic opening and closing overhead build into Open Space is not justified as a percentage of the overall time available. I want to get folks interacting. Not listing to someone set things up.
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<div>With Lean Coffee, If I have a larger group (20 and more), then breaking the group down into groups of less than 20 or so seems to be important for Lean Coffee. Also a Table or wall is helpful with Lean Coffee to post topics. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Hi. One evening we only had two hours for 130 people. So the design was 30 minutes opening, two 30 minute session times, and a 30 minute closing. It was a lively loud church hall full of Occupy activists, raising the spirit and the roof.
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<div dir="ltr">Greetings Jake! My experience is that virtually every space I've opened, the opening is @ 45 minutes - I "schedule" an hour for it.
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<div>Larger groups can take longer just because the Marketplace is more busy.</div>
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<div>I am helping to arrange an Open Space for about 30 participants. In Harrison's <i>User Guide</i> he indicates 1.5 hours for the opening. This seems a little long for a smaller group. What does everyone think?</div>
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