Preparation
- Publicise event
- Determine duration
- Set date
- Create invitation text
- Send out invitations
- Design rooms
- Set duration of time slots
- Set rooms
- Assign room names
- Visualise marketplace with rooms and time slots
- Provide material for marketplace creation
- Equip rooms with material
- Visualise Open Space principles, the law and appearances
- Provide food and drink
Implementation
- Receive participants
- Greet participants as they arrive and give them orientation
- Make small talk
- Open Space
- Call everyone together
- Conduct check-in
- Explain the theme of the Open Space
- Introduce Open Space principles, law and phenomena and explain marketplace
- Ask for session documentation
- Create marketplace
- Give time to think about sessions
- Introduce sessions in turn and fill marketplace
- Rearrange sessions if necessary
- Start sessions
- Close Open Space
- Make session documentation visible
- Allow time to view session documentation
- Agree if, and if so which actions are started from the sessions
- Carry out check-out
- Say goodbye to participants
Follow-up
- Clean up rooms and market place
- Distribute session documentation