Request for Ideas

Hosting Friends, I am shaping the design for a conference hosted by my university organization, The Dyer Institute for Leading Organizational Change (www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu ). The conference, April 4-6, 2007 is focused on leading organizational change – mo

Re: Request for Ideas

Hi Tenneson! What a great list you have already generated. What about also addressing some of the needs of learners with non-dominant styles—the emotional learners and the kinesthetic crowd. Emotional learners can be challenging to accommodate in a traditional conference, but you could creat

Re: Request for Ideas

Building on Wendy's ideas a little... I worked last year helping a small group design a conference. They started with a cafe around the question of "what did you come here looking for?" or something like that, the idea being that everyone develop a key question for themselves to open themselves

Re: Request for Ideas

Hi Wendy, I really like your idea of a reflection room. Butterflies might flock ...and come in smiling. I will try that at the next OS where such a space can be created. you wrote: you could create a reflection room where folks could go to quietly reflect on how they feel about what they are lear

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Tenneson-- --Invite others to join to "walk and talk" during a break or after a meal, or at the end of the day's formal program, before dinner. This has been a source of rich experiences for me, and the mountain location will be evocative. --I often bring a basket of toys and rhythm instrumen

Re: SV: Michael Pannwitz's comment about OSonOS 2008 in Berlin

Chris-- I like this idea a lot, of gathering close to the harvest moon, for both practical and emotional reasons. Late September or early October is a reasonably easy time to travel, at least in the northern hemisphere--heavy vacation traffic is over, and the weather is likely to range from ok

Re: Request for Ideas

Here's how I'm trying to fit OS into our traditional conference... http://qcon.infoq.com/qcon/tracks/show_track.jsp?trackOID=38 Diana Larsen will facilitate and help make it a success. We'll let you know how it goes! deb Tenneson Woolf wrote: *Hosting Friends,* I am shaping the design for a