Bruce-- Your project sounds wonderful!
Harrison's book, Open Space Technology, a User's Guide, has very good practical discussions about space needed and many other details for planning your meeting. Get a copy right now if you don't have it. If you've read it before, haul it out--the details will be meaningful now with a real meeting in mind. Every person invited won't come, but my experience is that the rate is higher than with many other kinds of meetings. I'd ask for RSVP's so you can arrange for food service and so you can put together a participant list ahead of time--you can update it at the meeting. This is very important; you are trying to build ongoing relationships. You will need a big room--having a large group in a circle, or in concentric circles, creates a powerful energy. Outside the circle you need enough space that people can move around, refreshment table, enough room to move chairs into several small groups and back into the main circle again. You need a lot of wall space for session posters, and I'm talking about wall space more-or-less at eye level and within reach. Otherwise, both the posters and the poster-readers get stacked up and the Market Place segment takes a long time. You don't need multiple facilitators--one additional person who can tend to logistical crises and help move chairs is nice, though you can recruit the participants for just about anything that needs doing. It will work. Have fun! Joelle Everett Sound Resources 813 E Leeds Drive Shelton, Washington 98584 360-426-8517 jleshel...@aol.com * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== osl...@egroups.com To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed