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Liquid Day @ NCCC - response to Darren

Thanks, Darren, for your comment to my posting. I'm glad to hear that the evening was quite different, and am sorry that I didn't 'get that message'.

I do not want to be critical of the day or suggest that it totally fell short - except that what I experienced fell short of my personal expectations. And perhaps my colleague had his expectations shaped by my expectations when I suggested to him that he attend. Others with other expectations would no doubt have had quite a different reaction. Perhaps it was all too 'liquid' for me! :-) and perhaps I blogged too soon after the event without enough reflection.

And I really do appreciate the difficulties the organizers found themselves in when registrations fell short of the required base number.

You noted:

"However we were very intentional today about not wanting to it to be a talking head event but rather a learning together/networking and sharing journeys type time."

I think this is a very valid intent - and I liked how Phil said that the speakers were not the experts, but that the expertise was in the attendees. However I have seen numerous occassions where such forums have fallen flat - the 'success' depends so heavily on the actual people who are present and the inter-relational dynamics amongst them. For me it didn't work as well as it could have or as well as I would have liked it to have.

From what you have said though, it appears that if I'd stayed for the evening I'd probably have come away with a different impression.

In Him

posted by Gordon Gray @ Thursday, February 10, 2005