Re: Opening circle without seats

2010-08-17 Thread Koos de Heer
-Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Csaba Lengyel Sent: 09 August 2010 16:49 To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: Opening circle without seats Dear all, Finally we had the opening circle without chairs! I let you know what we ex

Re: Opening circle without seats

2010-08-09 Thread Jon Harvey
du Subject: Re: Opening circle without seats Dear all, Finally we had the opening circle without chairs! I let you know what we experienced: We only marked the inner circle around the empty space in the middle and 4 corridors using masking tape (it gave us a nice byzantine cross :) and it worked

Re: Opening circle without seats

2010-08-09 Thread Csaba Lengyel
..@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Michael M Pannwitz Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 8:42 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: Opening circle without seats Dear Csaba, when you get into the vicinity of 300 participants and somewhere between 75 and 100 issues and have only one day an

Re: Opening circle without seats

2010-07-18 Thread Michael M Pannwitz
Dear Csaba, when you get into the vicinity of 300 participants and somewhere between 75 and 100 issues and have only one day and want folks to get into their breakout sessions without too much delay you might do what HO always does, be the microphone stand...I tried that with the 2108 and we we

Re: Opening circle without seats

2010-07-18 Thread Csaba Lengyel
Dear Michael, Phelim, Peggy, Lisa and Barry, Thank you very much for your valuable insights related to my issue. I have to realise againn that OSLIST is such a great community! Summing up the learnings: - we will try to use masking tape (if allowed) to mark at least the inner and outer circle o

Re: Opening circle without seats

2010-07-17 Thread Michael M Pannwitz
wonderful impro! here is the link to several pictures shwowing an event with 2108 people using 2000 small red cusshions arranged in concentric circles and about 100 chairs for differently abled participants... http://www.boscop.org/events/165-jetzt-meine-leidenschaft-meine-verantwortung-ueber-di

Re: Opening circle without seats

2010-07-17 Thread Phelim McDermott
Sorry here's the link to the video of the space... http://gallery.me.com/iphone/phelim/16#0 Phelim Sent from my iPhone On 17 Jul 2010, at 15:43, Peggy Holman wrote: > Hi Csaba, > > I can only add one other approach to Lisa's wonderful through answer. When > we ran the OS for 2,100 stre

Re: Opening circle without seats

2010-07-17 Thread Phelim McDermott
Hi Csaba When we did the Open Space in Berlin fir the IETM we had to create a circle in a not ideal space no seats and a Raked auditorium and stage. We found sone cushions and blocks from under the stage and created the illusion of a flat circle. At opening I asked the group to use their imagi

Re: Opening circle without seats

2010-07-17 Thread Peggy Holman
Hi Csaba, I can only add one other approach to Lisa's wonderful through answer. When we ran the OS for 2,100 street kids in Bogota in 2004, they sat on the ground in a courtyard. We made circles using masking tape, complete with aisles. Here's a picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/78084501

Re: Opening circle without seats

2010-07-17 Thread Barry Owen
Csaba, I believe that if you leave a pile of markers and stack of paper for issues in the center of the empty room . . . with no additional clutter whatsoever . . . People will natural "sit around the camp-fire" in a nice, round circle. You might also think about adding some definition to the cir

Re: Opening circle without seats

2010-07-17 Thread Lisa Heft
Hi, Csaba - I have had (for example) 850 students in a sports hall, where chairs were not allowed on the lovely floor. I do not think concentric circles are required - even though that is something I try for in other situations. However as we have shared on this list over the years - a c

Opening circle without seats

2010-07-17 Thread Csaba Lengyel
Hi all, We will facilitate an OST event of 270-300 students in a sports hall, where it1s not possible to bring in chairs. Here comes a question, how can we set up the opening circle? Participants will sit on the floor (they are fine with that), but how can we make sure that they actually for conce