checklist of what open space can do

Harrison Owen hhowen at comcast.net
Wed Dec 10 05:22:30 PST 2003


Seems like you pretty well got it - and I am sure the list will grow.
One thing - since you like numbers -- group size has been 5-2108. Not
that it makes much difference. And of course, if you were to publish
such a list anywhere but here on OSLIST, people doubtless would ask you
what you had been smoking. Which is always the problem when you say, as
accurately as you can - what seems to happen in  Open Space.

harrison

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Subject: checklist of what open space can do

I'd like to have a checklist , as much as a conversation starter to try
out with peers (indeed anyone I come across) along the lines of did you
know this miracle exists? Don't you want to try it once?

I realise the following needs editing and additions. All suggestions
greatly welcome

WHAT OPEN SPACE CAN DO

Make the most use of time and passion of everyone (usually 30 to 1000
people) who assembles over 2 to 3 day period because they want to
progress some shared issue

Dissolve barriers between people so that leave mutually respecting each
other

Provide open documentation of every meeting and issues surfaced for all
to reflect on and take forward

Ready people to network/practice community thereafter however far flung
their geographical connections

Innovate in 2 days what has often proved intractable in 2 years

Experience a heightening of spirit and communal collaboration that you
may never have encountered before

Increase the self-confidence of every participant, awaken the joy of
focus

Change the way you feel meetings etc should be conducted in the future

Demonstrate that self-organising isn't just practical but systemically
provides organisational advantages of an almost unprecedented nature

Provides the simplest methodology

Involve the participation of those most impacted by an issue, whatever
their capabilities

Take another look at education at any level

SWOT conflict, change forces and hierarchy as huge value transformation
loci if one can journey through them

Provide an antidote wherever professional disconnections have been
compounded over time, or an organisation has lost a common language or
alignment to a deep purpose

Yours sincerely

Chris Macrae

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