On the circle...I've had an experience that worked surprisingly well
when a friend opened a space in a room set for a World Cafe (lots of
small tables with stuff on it). He began with a guided imagery in
which he took us in to seek the question most important to us. Paper
and markers were on the table. When the guided vision ended, he
invited anyone who wished to do so to put their topic on paper, come
to where he was standing and announce it. While he didn't have us
envision ourselves as a circle, I would.
Usually I hate guided meditations, but this worked and it drew people
into a sense of resonance.
Best of success!
Peggy
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On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Chris Corrigan wrote:
This is what I need guys...thanks for the wisdom, and keep it coming.
You're never too old to be stumped, and never to experienced to ask
for help!
Chris
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Esther Matte <ema...@excellence.ca>
wrote:
I’ve had a soft/fabric covered and we used both pins and blue 3M
tape. I thought the tape wouldn’t hold, but it did! Throughout the
whole day too!
I’ve also had a stage, and used it as the newsroom. Worked
wonderfully – nice overview of the room, good feeling of a “whole”.
The tables are definitely a downer… but I would say trust the
process. Instead of walking the circle, walk the tables. Take more
time maybe and make sure you do a lot of eye contact.
And if you do this with the tables, let us know the results and the
feeling of it.
If anything else comes to mind, I’ll send another message. Good luck
and have fun too!
Esther Matte
Discover - Engage - Accomplish
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Objet : [OSLIST] Help!
I've been at this a long time now, but I've run up against a
situation like this. I'm stumped and looking for help.
I;ll be opening space for a gethering of 500+ people. The client is
completely unwilling to set the room in a circle. Instead, we will
have 96 tables with 6 chairs at each table packed into a spacious
but full ball room facing a stage. The walls of this room are
incredible...they appear to be actually stuffed with cotton and
covered in fabric. There is little hope of putting anything on the
walls.
On the plus side we will have lots of AV, so there is a goodly
amount of technology available to play with for agenda setting and
huge screen projection.
I'm worried on a number of levels as you can imagine, but at the
moment I'm trying to put that all aside and figure out, in this
worst case scenario, what is the best thing we could do to Open
Space? Anyone been faced with similar constraints? Help me out
here...
All tips and support I get on this, I'll roll up into a little
document on "what to do when nothing is what you need it to be" and
we can share it out.
OSLIST group mind...activate!
Chris
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