Tim Bravo for this wonderful opportunity for you!!! In my experience with larger groups, its all the logistics/traffic/sound things of a smaller-sized OS event but bigger in the sense that, as Joelle says, allow plenty of wall space for the agenda wall, make the signs nice and big / make multiples of the signs, make it very easy through signage (signs) where breakout areas are. And yes, as Michael and Esther say, having a team is the thing lots of running around and setting up and moving chairs and such from set-up to actual event. Opening and agenda-setting still takes the same time Ive never had those two things take more than 1.25 hours, no matter how large the group is. Sometimes in larger events especially if breakout places are on different floors of a hotel or somesuch, a worksheet can help people they look at the agenda wall and write down some of the sessions they want to go to on a form that shows time-slots. But this is not in any way necessary or specific to large-group activities Ive used it a few times in the huge-location OSs Ive done but just to try it out cant really decide if it was helpful or not (! Im sure it was helpful for the people it was helpful for ). Signage is really the thing that for me / the client takes the most hours for preparation in a large event (larger, more of them, duplicates, directional signage, etc.). Regarding people posting themes in advance my experience and intuition say no, no, no. Open Space is for emergent issues. For experiencing what is called to the circle by the group of people walking in the door reading to jump into the open space of the Open Space. And when a group is forming in-person, for the telling of those issues-topics / owning of those issues-topics in-person, in front of everyone. Its really different to stand up and proclaim something in the moment and it really is what its all about in the whatever-happens be-prepared framework, to me. Done with my ramblings, for now, Lisa ________________________________ L i s a H e f t Consultant, Facilitator, Educator O p e n i n g S p a c e 2325 Oregon Berkeley, California 94705-1106 USA +01 510 548-8449 lisah...@pacbell.net
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