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Agile CULTUREcon Boston 2014: Opening Space - Unleashing Awesomeness
The document explores the concept of 'open space' and 'open space technology,' promoting a mindset that encourages emergence, self-organization, and high performance through receptivity, honesty, and collaboration. It highlights principles such as the law of two feet for voluntary participation and emphasizes the importance of blending creativity with responsibility. Various exercises and metaphors, including ecstatic dance and improvisational techniques, are presented to illustrate how to create an environment conducive to authentic interaction and collective growth.
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- 2. OPENING SPACE & OPENSPACE TECHNOLOGY
- 3. OPENING SPACE –THE MANY FACES…. Physical space Cyberspace Mental space Emotional space Creative space Time space Many other ways to slice and dice
- 4. 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
- 5. 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
- 6. LESSONS FROM Open SpaceTechnology Improvisational Comedy Ecstatic Dance A suicide hotline
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- 8. MORAL OF THESTORY there is no “right” system or way for open space, for agility, for achieving high performance
- 9. …but I willgive it a try anyhow
- 10. ECSTATIC DANCE: 1. Movehowever 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
- 11. Move however you like… from awesome to life affirming
- 12. LAW OF MOBILITY- CHALLENGE Safe enough to try? Test it, tweak it, throw it away Reinforce it – example & acceptance
- 13. ADVANCED CHALLENGE! Morningstar &W.L. Gore Projects, tasks, committees, “titles” voluntary / self-selected Passion Propose, spearhead, create Responsibility
- 14. 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
- 15. 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
- 16. YES, AND… Time toplay!
- 17. YES AND… THECHALLENGE
- 18. SUICIDE HOTLINE Listening • Noadvice • No judgment • No Interruption …just listening
- 19. Please call meby 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
- 20. DEEP LISTENING ISNOT 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
- 21. 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
- 22. 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
- 23. OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGY GlobalMeeting – 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
- 24. Are we doingthis open space thing again? Even one less thing to do…
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- 26. OPENING SPACES – ARETROSPECTIVE 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
- 27. Open Space Mindset Memorize itLove it Live it Make it your own
Editor's Notes
- #2 Talking about the concept of opening space and the potential it has for unleashing awesomeness in your group, project, and organization
- #3 Today you will be experiencing a way to open space, a ritual , tool , process,,,we like to call it open space technology, it is one of many ways to open space…and pictured as a cloud b/c even though it has a light structure, we have our ways and those ways are meant to change, morph and adjust to their conditions…so while there is valye to how it is done…don’t get stuck in the done, but just keep on doing
- #4 Ask audience to pick a “type” and we’ll highlight – flow state
- #7 Make sense to repeat these themes?