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OPENING SPACE – THE MANY
FACES….
Physical space
Cyberspace
Mental space
Emotional space
Creative space
Time space
Many other ways to slice and dice
OPEN SPACE MINDSET
Honest, open, and receptive
• to ourselves
• to each other
• to our environment
• to the unknown
Honest: bringing your truth and your fullest self
Open: to the truth of others and the diversity of those truths
Receptive: to feedback from your environment, to the now,
to the unexpected, to the emergent
Making Space for: Emergence & Self-Organization
OPEN SPACE MINDSET –
THEORIES OF AWESOMENESS
An Open Space mindset leads to:
harmony of passion and responsibility – most creative,
powerful, and appropriate fit.
…which leads to optimal structure for getting
out of the way of realizing our potential
awesomeness – our own and our group
…aka, high performance
MORAL OF THE STORY
there is no “right” system or way for open space, for
agility, for achieving high performance
ECSTATIC DANCE:
1. Move however you wish (akin to law of two feet)
2. No talking on the dance floor
3. Respect yourself and one another
4. No shoes
5. No drugs & alcohol
LAW OF MOBILITY - CHALLENGE
Safe enough to try?
Test it, tweak it, throw it away
Reinforce it – example & acceptance
ADVANCED CHALLENGE!
Morningstar & W.L. Gore
Projects, tasks, committees, “titles”
voluntary / self-selected
Passion
Propose, spearhead, create
Responsibility
IMPROV
1. Agreement (Yes, And…)
2. Listen
3. Team Work (Group Mind
4. Willingness to fail
5. Be in the moment
6. Action beats inaction
7. Be honest with what is coming up –
don’t censor or judge
8. Let go of your need to control
9. There are no mistakes
10. Trust
YES, AND…
"Yes and" implies acceptance, but not acquiescence.
• Receptivity + self-empowerment
• Co-existence
• In the Now
• Letting go of control, of expectations, of fears, of
distraction
…EMERGENCE
Please call me by my true name,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
DEEP LISTENING IS NOT A
TOOL OR A “BEST PRACTICE”
Openness is a state of being
• Authentic
• Empty, open, receptive – a vessel
NEVER TRY TO OPEN A SPACE BIGGER THAN
YOU CAN OPEN FOR YOURSELF
OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGY
1. The Law of Two feet – voluntary participation
2. Whomever come are the right people
3. Whenever it starts is the right time; whenever its
over, its over
4. Wherever it happens is the right place
5. Whatever happens is the only thing that could
have
HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT
CONSULTING FIRM
• 1 day of drinking coffee & booze in Lisbon
• 1 day of trying not to fall asleep staring at the front
of the room
• 1 day being asked to respond to questions from the
front of the room
1 lunchtime chat full of surprises
GLOBAL MEETING – 2011, LISBON
OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGY
Global Meeting – 2013, Oakland, CA
• OST – “What do you want to learn, what do you
have to share? Getting it done….”
• Within 10 minutes:
• TONS of questions, confusions, and frustrations
• Specific projects & project types
• Desire to learn
• Offers to share
• Live projects – proposal written that day!
• Where the passion and effort wanted to flow
OPENING SPACES –
A RETROSPECTIVE
Ecstatic Dance: Move however you want
Bring your true self
HONEST
Improv: Yes, and…
Acknowledgment, acceptance
OPEN
Suicide hotline: Active Listening
RECEPTIVE
Open Space Technology: One less thing to do
SELF-ORGANIZATION & EMERGENCE