The more I experience Open Space, the more enthusiastic I become. So I enjoyed Andrew Rixon’s post, showing the social network before and after an Open Space meeting.
Before:
After:
One of my mantras is relationships before ideas. Many conference formats overemphasise the top-down delivery of content at the expense of connectedness. Open Space seems to allow the content and relationships to evolve together.
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leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Letting go in order to get in flow…
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
I was a little surprised to read this at the egonomics blog. (The blog’s a recent discovery it looks good.) “You can’t ever suggest that any decision made by the
Rohan Gunatillake has a good post challening the label of “retreat” to describe what people do when they form communities for silent reflection. As anyone who has gone to sit
Thanks to Boing Boing for quoting Douglas: Although I’ve spent a fair bit of law school debating various aspects of what people can (or should be able to) bind themselves
Keith Sawyer reports some more research on the limits of brainstorming. In short you get better results if you ask participants to work alone before working together. And then there’s
