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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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 shot this in a single eight-minute take, which is in the spirit of an experience of Ralf Wetzel’s workshop, Leading from the Clown. Clown training is probably the deepest and most challenging work I’ve done. Enjoy.
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
The power of small gestures and noticing
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
Beyond heroic leadership
Rob May notices that a German court prevents WalMart from banning office romances. Wal-Mart has lost a court appeal to try to legally ban its employees in Germany from having
A great bit of propaganda from France 1968, and a nice sidelight on some people’s ideas of user-generated content. Hat tip: Jon Husband and Harold Jarche.
John Moore at Brand Autopsy asks Is Being Visionary A Good Thing? Being visionary is a double-edged sword. Sometimes you can be so visionary that others can’t relate, understand or
Dave Pollard is one of the unique voices I’d never have heard but for the internet. He writes with tremendous passion intensity and bluntness. I remember him saying he was
