"Does the number of allocated meeting places designated by the facilitator actually affect the number of issues (and associated breakout groups) that the group comes up with?"
Not in my experience. If there are more issues, make more spaces. And if you can't think of any - just tell the people to find their own space. They always do. The mother of all mis-calculations occurred when Michael Pannwitz and I took on the 2008 folks in Germany. We predicted 150 sessions/spaces. Turned out there were 236 (Michael's count). Fortunately we had been designating breakout areas with gas balloons with numbers on them, all over the floor. When it became clear that we had way under-estimated the number required more balloons were filled quickly. I don't think any of the participants noticed, or if they did, they just thought it was part of the show. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com/> Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Joe Bowers Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:46 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Allocating Breakout Groups Does anybody have any thoughts on the following issue: "Does the number of allocated meeting places designated by the facilitator actually affect the number of issues (and associated breakout groups) that the group comes up with?" Thanks for any input. Joe Bowers The Centre for Success, Health & Happiness 612 9858 1569 0403 395 488 j...@successandhappiness.com.au www.successandhappiness.com.au * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist