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