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pictures courtesy of Michael Molenaar
Click above to go on a tour through
an actual Open Space event. See how it works and why.
Convener’s Notes are gathered and printed onsite. In a short time, the most important ideas, recommendations, conclusions, questions for further study, and plans for immediate action are documented and given to every participant. This gives you the fastest, most comprehensive report on where your organization is, where it wants to go, and the ways for it to be accomplished by the entire group.
Participants then re-post new topics that are purely action oriented —what are you willing to take responsibility for setting into motion. Another round of 15 minute conversations take place for the who, what, where, and when going forward.
At the end of the day, participants gather back in the full circle to share a few words on what the process brought for them, and where they want to take it from here. It gives a great sense of how the day went. People are ALWAYS energized and ready to take action.
Topics are posted on the wall titled The Marketplace of Ideas
and everyone checks it out to decide what is of interest to them. Several topics
are convened simultaneously, each lasting from 1/2 hour to 45 minutes. This is
where the Law of Two Feet comes in ~when people talk about what they want to
talk about, when they want to talk about it, with others who are as passionate
as they are, they will move mountains.
After each session of small group conversations,
the convener of the topic types the summary notes. At the end of the day
all session notes are printed and a copy is handed to every participant.
Notes can then be emailed and/or placed on a website.
STEP 6.
STEP 5.
STEP 4.
STEP 3.
STEP 1.
The commitment to passion and responsibility
begins with an invitation. Based on the overall Invitation topic, participants
post any thoughts, ideas, questions or passions as conversation topics that
in minutes becomes the entire Open Space agenda.
STEP 2.
You’ve been to your fair share of meetings and conferences
where you either leave uninspired, or you’re energized while you’re
there, but the energy fails to translate long term back at the office.
Open Space replaces traditional meeting methods and brings life back to
the organization and the organization back to life.
Open Space enables all kinds of people, in any type of organization,
to create inspired communities where ordinary people work together to create
extraordinary results with regularity. Open Space can be scheduled for 3 hours
to 3+ days, and can include 5 to 1500 people.
Open Space works best when:
