CONSP!RING EUTOKIA: Opening Space in Bilbao

This is the message I sent to OSLIST just some minutes ago... Looking forward to receiving some response...

EUTOKIA is a place for what is called social innovation supported by the Bilbao Council. It's being inaugurated starting tomorrow and finishing with a half day Open Space event I was invited to facilitate just last Monday: 3D BURUMAPA.

The conditions have been quite special. Some points about it:

• The  invitation was already made. Even if the sponsors and their invitation embody the OS spirit, I suggested some changes that we are going to introduce in the signals in the room.
• They insisted that they don't want to ask people to confirm attendance, as it may be a bit as "forcing".
• They asked me, so to think how to make it really easy to get introduced in the job for people coming at whatever time (the attendance is supposed to be something like this: 20 people at 4, 20 more at 5, 20 more at 6, maybe 40 more between 6 and 8 and many people leaving in between). I thought about some lines to hand out to facilitate a quick understanding of OS.
• Taking notes and the final report may happen, but the sponsors challenge (that I accepted) was to integrate every idea and note during the event in one big Mind Map.
• I'll open space in both Basque and Spanish to encourage conversations taking place in both (everybody coming know Spanish, but I'm sure that different languages would form different groups and give birth to more diverse ideas), so I'll be trying to be as short as possible in the introduciton message. That's why I'm very interested about the answers to Artur's last message (OST following a creative enhacing training) that I repost here:

"....Anyhow the main facilitator/trainer of the previous day made me a suggestion that I would like to have your opinions about. The suggestion was based in the way they have done their trainings in the past (explaining everything in the beginning) and the way they do now (explaining only what is needed for each phase). So the suggestion was to divide the opening in two parts: the first one with a bit of history and the presentation of the timetable with no Agenda and then ask for session topics; and then explain the principles, law and animals and go on to the Market Place." ...

I have some opinions about this, but I prefer to give them later. At this moment I would like to know if anyone has ever tried this two-steps type of opening and with what results. If not (and considering the context I have mentioned of the previous one day training) what do you think about the suggestion I have received?..."

If you know about anyone near Bilbao that might be interested in OS, forward this piece of info, please, and our invitation to join us in  the consp!ration.

Thanks for your support,

Eleder

pd: I recently moved from Bilbao to Mundaka, a small town on the coast, much more inspiring for wave riders, sure :-)!