Sounds pretty much like Open Space to me. The only suggestion might be to open it just a bit more to include the presently excluded. I guess the scheduled workshops etc are pretty full up -- but who knows the "outsiders" might bring a whole host of new talents and skills -- to say nothing of "workshops, experiences, and the like" which the "insiders" might truly enjoy. And then before you know it, there would not be any insider or outsider -- just all of the folks having a great time. And please, I hope you did not take offence at my "cruel and unusual punishment." It was intended as a joke, but I know that sometimes my version of humor comes across a little stridently. Sorry about that.
But seriously, it seems to me that if you have the space to do an Open Space, you should have the space to just move the boundaries and make it all open space. Problem solved, nobody excluded -- and the party only gets better. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 Skype hhowen Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website www.ho-image.com OSLIST: To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Jimmy Pryor Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 11:18 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: Longest OS Event? The original event (FGC Gathering) as practiced is a pretty wonderful week. There is a huge range of activities over the week. There are 60 or more "workshops" which meet every morning for 2-1/2 hours. In many people do sit in chairs. But virtually all are participative and interactive. Some involve art, singing, bicycling, and yoga. Although the workshops are planned and scheduled in advance, anyone is free to submit a workshop proposal and all participants choose which, if any of the workshops to attend. In the afternoons and evening there are dozens of activities to choose from including presentations by authors, story-telling, movies, sports, outings, dancing, games, massage, public demonstrations - whatever people want to do, basically. Many impromptu meetings and conversations take place. People do come up with and announce new activities/discussions/meetings throughout the conference, though the mechanism for doing so is not as easy or as prominent as in the type Open Space Technology event as described in your books and by others on this list. Given that my 15 year old son says that it was the best experience of his life, and that this year's conference was fully booked in 6 days, 4 months in advance, suggests that it's not cruel and unusual punishment. Jimmy At 06:40 AM 3/10/2006, Harrison Owen wrote: >Jimmy wrote: The reason I ask, is because the overbooked >conference to which I referred,will run from a >Saturday evening through Friday Morning, with 5 >full days in between. If an OS conference was >run concurrently for the overflow, we would >probably want it to be the same length. > > >Jimmy I am just wondering why you want to short change the Main Conference? >Personally I would not want to be the nasty so and so who made 1200 people >sit in chairs for 5 days -- while their friends and neighbors enjoyed the >freedom, growth, stimulation, learning, joy, enthusiasm, and satisfaction of >Open Space. Seems like cruel and unusual punishment to me. And this rank >injustice could be easily remedied. Just do the whole thing in Open Space. > >Harrison > > > >Harrison Owen >7808 River Falls Drive >Potomac, Maryland 20854 >Phone 301-365-2093 >Skype hhowen >Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com >Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org >Personal website www.ho-image.com >OSLIST: To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the >archives Visit: www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > >-----Original Message----- >From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Jimmy >Pryor >Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:30 PM >To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu >Subject: Re: Longest OS Event? > >At 06:17 PM 3/9/2006, Lisa Heft wrote: > >Jimmy, in my experience, about 2.5 days of Open > >Space delivers the goods - Id ask you a design > >question back again what is the purpose of the > >OS, how does it fit in to some overall longer > >(is that what you are thinking of?) event, what > >does it want to accomplish therefore how long > >should you design your event, and so on. > >The reason I ask, is because the overbooked >conference to which I referred,will run from a >Saturday evening through Friday Morning, with 5 >full days in between. 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