Whilst this card set has been developed primarily as a training aid for helping people and groups learn about Open Space Technology there’s no reason it can’t be used for more “business-as-usual” applications as well.
Effective communication is everyone’s job—whether you are trying to sell in a concept or convince a client. Visual Thinking can help us take in complex information and synthesize it into something meaningful. In an increasingly fragmented and cluttered world, simple imagery, metaphors and mindmaps can get people to understand the abstract and make your ideas tangible. Find out why why thinking visually may be one of the most sought after abilities of the 21st century.
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From a workshop I facilitated at Vizthink 2009 on why stories are more effective than fact based methods at communicating complex ideas and inspiring people to want to change.
Effective communication is everyone’s job—whether you are trying to sell in a concept or convince a client. Visual Thinking can help us take in complex information and synthesize it into something meaningful. In an increasingly fragmented and cluttered world, simple imagery, metaphors and mindmaps can get people to understand the abstract and make your ideas tangible. Find out why why thinking visually may be one of the most sought after abilities of the 21st century.
Open Your Mind, Open Your Library (Handout): Texas Library Association 2016M.J. D'Elia
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My 106 Key learnings in 2017 (quotes, concepts, ideas)Yoann Lopez
During 2017 I read many books, articles, listened to some podcasts and audiobooks. Each time I ran into some great quotes, ideas, concepts, I wrote them down in a Note folder on my iPhone. Now it's time for me to share them with the world as some of them might be useful for you.
From a workshop I facilitated at Vizthink 2009 on why stories are more effective than fact based methods at communicating complex ideas and inspiring people to want to change.
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The presentation was given during the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ Certified facilitators' Annual Meeting in Billund (Denmark) on April 7th 2013.
The presentations draws from LSP workshops' and Lego-interviews' experiences to present similarities and differences and to highlight the high potential of a creative and constructive approach both to elicit new meanings and perspectives and to create new meanings. A final comparison between LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ and LegoViews completes the presentation, summarising more than 3 years' work and research in the field.
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Who do I want you to become? Someone who dreams beautiful dreams. Someone who helps others dream beautiful dreams. Someone who designs for dreams.
For it is through beautiful dreams that we will create more beautiful organizations, communities, and the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
An annotated version of my talk on Designing the Future from dConstruct 2015 in Brighton, delivered on 11th September. The talk explores the danger with living in a Superhero-saturated culture, lessons we can draw from Interstellar, and expanded ideas on what Metadesign, designing ways in which design can evolve by itself, can be viewed and put into practice.
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In today’s busy world, the focus appears to be on more and more doing. More mandates, regulations, guidelines and procedures. To make things worse, providing opportunities to help adults and children learn sustainable practices to living may be severely limited by the current paradigm of education – based on telling. This current state raises the key question of how can we work towards building relationships and truly empowering people to learn how to integrate sustainable practice into their day to day lives?
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The key methodology being used across this growing Community of Practice is an approach known as Open Space Technology which has at its heart the principle of “doing one less thing”, an approach that produces co-ordinated documented and action-oriented outcomes that participants themselves take responsibility for.
The presenters will share the story of how Open Space Technology has been applied to the Victorian EfS sector Community of Practice, the themes that have emerged, actions undertaken and reflections of Community of Practice members.
Participants will have the opportunity to learn how the 4 principles and one law of Open Space Technology enable people to participate in ways that are most meaningful to them.
Big Mind - Becoming a wise leader (and follower!)Andrew Rixon
Big Mind is derived from Zen philosophy and is about tapping into something bigger and more expansive than our intellect, our "small mind". Leaders (and followers!) need to be able to work with their biases and ego, consider a wider range of options/opinions and leverage their intuition and creativity. Paradoxically, these things do not come from thinking harder but from letting go.
LegoViews: a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ based interviewing technique.Patrizia Bertini
LegoViews is an innovative journalistic interviewing technique developed by Patrizia Bertini, Certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ facilitator. Starting from the theoretical framework of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™, the LegoView technique allows new ideas and new concepts to emerge, providing original and new insights about the topics at hand. The Lego-interviewing technique has been tested in highly sensitive contexts, including Palestine, Israel and the Occupy LSX movement, and it has also been used to provide new insights on specific concepts, like art, creativity, colour and architecture by involving artists, architects, professionals and thinkers.
The presentation was given during the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ Certified facilitators' Annual Meeting in Billund (Denmark) on April 7th 2013.
The presentations draws from LSP workshops' and Lego-interviews' experiences to present similarities and differences and to highlight the high potential of a creative and constructive approach both to elicit new meanings and perspectives and to create new meanings. A final comparison between LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ and LegoViews completes the presentation, summarising more than 3 years' work and research in the field.
Design for dreams not needs: who do you want your customers to become?Joyce Hostyn
Who do you want your customer to become? Who do you want your coworkers, your organization, your employees, your children, your community, your country, the world to become? What gifts do you have? What gifts do they (those you are designing for) have? To answer these questions well is to discover your own dream. To answer these questions well is to uncover the dreams of those you are designing for.
Who do I want you to become? Someone who dreams beautiful dreams. Someone who helps others dream beautiful dreams. Someone who designs for dreams.
For it is through beautiful dreams that we will create more beautiful organizations, communities, and the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
An annotated version of my talk on Designing the Future from dConstruct 2015 in Brighton, delivered on 11th September. The talk explores the danger with living in a Superhero-saturated culture, lessons we can draw from Interstellar, and expanded ideas on what Metadesign, designing ways in which design can evolve by itself, can be viewed and put into practice.
Unleashing the Creative Mind of the Test EngineerTechWell
Do we each have a natural capacity for creativity? Can creativity be learned or enhanced? How do we ignite inventiveness? To be competitive in today’s world, it’s important to creatively respond to unanticipated challenges, make new connections, and adapt and continually improve. The good news is that our brains are built for creative problem solving, and it’s easy to discover and enhance our natural inventiveness. Just as scientists adopt scientific methods to design experiments and unravel the mysteries of the world, we need a complementary set of tools and techniques―creative thinking―when we want to invent rather than discover. We each have creative genius waiting to be unlocked! Join Audrey Marak to explore a set of methods and environmental factors you can use to enhance your imagination and increase your ability to create innovative ideas. It’s time to make creative thinking a core part of our development and to reinforce these lessons throughout our lives.
Slides and harvest from a webinar I facilitated for the Mid Atlantic Facilitators Network on February 7, 2104. This is a cleaned up version of the slides with the chat notes processed into the slides as a "harvest" of people's inputs and participation
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Making a difference by Doing One Less ThingAndrew Rixon
In today’s busy world, the focus appears to be on more and more doing. More mandates, regulations, guidelines and procedures. To make things worse, providing opportunities to help adults and children learn sustainable practices to living may be severely limited by the current paradigm of education – based on telling. This current state raises the key question of how can we work towards building relationships and truly empowering people to learn how to integrate sustainable practice into their day to day lives?
Sustainability Victoria's purpose is to show the way to using our resources more efficiently and reducing our everyday environmental impacts. As part of their ResourceSmart Education programs Sustainability Victoria is facilitating a growing Community of Practice that is working together to continuously improve Education for Sustainability (EfS) in Victorian communities.
The key methodology being used across this growing Community of Practice is an approach known as Open Space Technology which has at its heart the principle of “doing one less thing”, an approach that produces co-ordinated documented and action-oriented outcomes that participants themselves take responsibility for.
The presenters will share the story of how Open Space Technology has been applied to the Victorian EfS sector Community of Practice, the themes that have emerged, actions undertaken and reflections of Community of Practice members.
Participants will have the opportunity to learn how the 4 principles and one law of Open Space Technology enable people to participate in ways that are most meaningful to them.
Big Mind - Becoming a wise leader (and follower!)Andrew Rixon
Big Mind is derived from Zen philosophy and is about tapping into something bigger and more expansive than our intellect, our "small mind". Leaders (and followers!) need to be able to work with their biases and ego, consider a wider range of options/opinions and leverage their intuition and creativity. Paradoxically, these things do not come from thinking harder but from letting go.
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This is a transcription of the Business901 Podcast, An Inquiry into the Meaning of Making. Seung Chan Lim, nicknamed Slim discusses his journey and finally his project, Realizing Empathy. Through this project Slim hopes to share ideas, tools, and other ways to facilitate a meaningful, sustainable, and constructive conversations between and among diverse perspectives whether that’s between people or between people and materials or between people and machines by using “making” as the shared metaphor.
Underrated and Undervalued Introverts.
Alana Dew, Heather Kerr, Loretta Pickett, Rebecca (Kat) Ross.
As we all reside somewhere on the introvert/extrovert spectrum, it is important to recognize the potential to undervalue and alienate the quieter individuals among us by forcing them to compete as extroverts do. We seek to explore this subject so that we may better understand how best to engage with introverted individuals, inviting their participation without forcing them to comply with methods that are more dominantly suited to extroverts. By embracing and supporting introverts, we can create a more inclusive and diverse society that values and celebrates all personalities and perspectives. This can lead to greater collaboration, understanding, and overall success in various fields and industries.
Tony Robbins discusses the "invisible forces" that make us do what we do -- and high-fives Al Gore in the front row.
What is your motive for action? What is it that drives you in your life today? Not 10 years ago. Are you running the same pattern? Because I believe that the invisible force of internal drive, activated, is the most important thing. I'm here because I believe emotion is the force of life. All of us have great minds. Most of us here have great minds, right? We all know how to think. With our minds we can rationalize anything. We can make anything happen.
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Design Zen – Improving your designs by staying curious longerPetr Stedry
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This tells the story of what might be considered a forgotten fairy tale.
With today's environment asking us what will tomorrow bring for organisations, this story explores what might become of hierarchies.
This is the story of a workshop that I facilitated earlier this year. But its not a story told by me, it's a story told by one of the workshop participants.
Like they say a picture tells a thousand words...
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What are pictures for the future of today's organisations? What new skills are needed?
This artwork has been prepared for AMP's festival of innovation and thought leadership themed on "Convergence and Emergence". It paints a backdrop for the topic which I am contributing to the festival exploring the question of "How can we thrive in Complexity?".
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There have been two stories doing a dance together in today's organisations.
You might even say they've been at battle.
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Sustainability has become an increasingly critical topic as the world recognizes the need to protect our planet and its resources for future generations. Sustainability means meeting our current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. It involves long-term planning and consideration of the consequences of our actions. The goal is to create strategies that ensure the long-term viability of People, Planet, and Profit.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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2. Explore the sustainability implementation model, focusing on effective measures and reporting strategies to track and communicate sustainability efforts.
3. Identify and define best practices and critical success factors essential for achieving sustainability goals within organizations.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction and Key Concepts of Sustainability
2. Principles and Practices of Sustainability
3. Measures and Reporting in Sustainability
4. Sustainability Implementation & Best Practices
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1. The Play of Open Space
Created by: Andrew Rixon
Illustrations by: Simon Kneebone
2. “Open Space is simplicity itself. All you have to do is sit in a
circle, create a bulletin board, open a marketplace and go to
work. That’s all there is.
The truth of the matter is that anyone with a good head and a
good heart can do it, but there’s a lot more to learn as well.good heart can do it, but there’s a lot more to learn as well.
In fact, you can do it right now, but it will take you a lifetime,
probably, to do it well.”
Harrison Owen
Founder and Originator of Open Space Technology
3. Keys to the Play of Open Space Cards
Roles to playRoles to play
Reflections to see
4. Whilst this card set has been developed primarily as a
training aid for helping people and groups learn about
Open Space Technology there’s no reason it can’t be
used for more “business-as-usual” applications as well.
Begin by handing out all the roles.Begin by handing out all the roles.
Then play out from the OS Facilitator role card.
All other roles explode out from this role and are bolded.
5.
6. Once the Sponsor has welcomed the group and handed
to me, walking the circle I...
Invite the group to consider who’s present and the
Theme that’s brought us together
Show how to raise a TopicShow how to raise a Topic
Invite and invoke The 4 Principles, The Law of 2
Feet including Bumblebees and Butterflies
Invite the group to raise their topics
Open the Market place and get out of the way!
7.
8. I may be a person, or a group of people.
I may have formal authority.
In my role as Sponsor I provide a sense of legitimacy for
the group to know their work isn’t in vein.
9.
10. Throughout this meeting you will see me emerge in
varying different ways. I will leave it as my challenge
for you to see how:
Whoever comes are the right peopleWhoever comes are the right people
Whatever happens is all that could have
When ever it starts is the right time
When it’s over it’s over
11.
12. I am the only law within Open Space.
And I’m compulsory, or at least I like to think so.
If you’re neither learning nor contributing, I encourage
and invite you to move to a place where you can!and invite you to move to a place where you can!
Because of me, there can be Bumblebees and
Butterflies...
13.
14. Did you know scientifically I’m not supposed to fly?
Within the group discussions you might see me buzz in,Within the group discussions you might see me buzz in,
get to work, and then fly out, off to another group to
cross-pollinate.
15.
16. Did you know I’m an indicator of healthy ecosystems?
Within the group discussions you may never see me, and
that’s because I’m not there. I’m somewhere else.that’s because I’m not there. I’m somewhere else.
Mostly likely on the periphery. Keeping conversations
and the broader living system connected.
17.
18. Sometimes thought as the container, I am part of every
Open Space event. I am what the invitation is based on
and I’m the reason why people are there.
I am often a question. Or sometimes a statement.
Commonly I am followed with “The Issues andCommonly I am followed with “The Issues and
Opportunities”.
Most importantly I am something that has emerged
through preparatory discussions with the sponsor(s)
and I get to the heart of what the works really about.
19.
20. As the first Topic has shown, you can imagine how I will
grow.
Sometimes I am colour coded for Topics to live withinSometimes I am colour coded for Topics to live within
certain time slots throughout the day(s).
21.
22. Once all the topics have been raised there are two
important functions I serve for people.
I provide people the opportunity to sign-up for all and
any of the topics that they are interested or passionate
aboutabout
Thanks to the Convenor’s choosing a Time-Space
Post-it, I help people know when and where
conversations will take place
23.
24. Popping either fast or slow, I am often likened to the
process of cooking popcorns. I am raised by anyone who
cares to (and no-one has to) by coming to the centre of
the circle, grabbing a pen and a sheet of paper and
writing down what I am, announcing me, and then
sticking me up on what’s now becoming the Bulletinsticking me up on what’s now becoming the Bulletin
Board.
The person who raises me is called a Convenor.
25.
26. Passion and Responsibility are the two keys for a
successful meeting. Without passion, enthusiasm for an
idea will soon wane, and without responsibility, there is
the risk that the ideas will never move forward.
Being a Convenor, I have both of these.
My passion is that I’ve raised this topic.
My responsibility is that I will host a conversation around
this topic and provide (if relevant) a Discussion
Summary Sheet back for the book we are all co-
creating.
27.
28. With every conversation needing a time and place, I help
Convenor’s by providing options as to when and where
their conversation can be held.
Whilst the time slots depend on when the event started I
often allow 1.5 hours for a conversation.often allow 1.5 hours for a conversation.
And places. They can be anywhere!
29.
30. If you are a Convenor then you will probably want to take
one of me.
I’m usually provided by the OS Facilitator and give you
the chance to record the title of your session, who
attended, and what some of the key learning’s andattended, and what some of the key learning’s and
discussion outcomes were.
I also can help to form a “news wall”.
31.
32. “Your job is simply to be fully present and totally invisible.
People will ignore you. They will forget that you are there.
They will take responsibility for what they love and not
expect anything else of you.
And when you have disappeared to them they will only feelAnd when you have disappeared to them they will only feel
themselves acting within the space you helped them
create.”
Chris Corrigan
OS Facilitator and author of “The Tao of Holding Space”
33.
34. If Open Space Technology originated through
applying the principle of “doing one less thing” –
what else lives within the practice of thinking of
one more thing not to do?
Do you have the courage to show up and be present?
To pay attention to what has heart and meaning?
To be open to outcomes not attached? To speak
your truth without blame or judgement?
35.
36. “Accept the fact that we have to treat almost
anybody as a volunteer.”
Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005)
American Management Consultant, Author
(Widely considered to be the father of modern management )
37.
38. As Harrison Owen tells in “Wave Rider: Leadership
for High Performance in a Self-Organizing
World”, the real force behind Open Space
Technology is that of self-organisation.
It’s something which we are part of. SomethingIt’s something which we are part of. Something
which we don’t need to create. Rather, something
we simply need to ride the wave of. To participate.
Something where our work is simply to get out of
the way of ourselves.
39.
40. As Brian Bainbridge has said, the most common,
mundane and extraordinary response for almost
any question asked of the Open Space facilitator isany question asked of the Open Space facilitator is
“what would you like to do?”.
41.
42. “But as things are, we have so far beset ourselves with rules, and concepts,
and ideas of what must be done to make a building or a town alive, that
we have become afraid of what will happen naturally, and convinced that
we must work within a “system” and with “methods” since without them
our surroundings will come tumbling down in chaos.
We are afraid, perhaps, that without images and methods, chaos will
break loose; worse still, that unless we use images of some kind,
ourselves, our own creation will itself be chaos. And why are we afraid
of that? Is it because people will laugh at us, if we make chaos? Or is it,
ourselves, our own creation will itself be chaos. And why are we afraid
of that? Is it because people will laugh at us, if we make chaos? Or is it,
perhaps, that we are most afraid of all that if we do make chaos, when
we hope to create art, we will ourselves be chaos, hollow, nothing?
This is why it is so easy for others to play on our fears. They can persuade
us that we must have more method, and more system, because we are
afraid of our own chaos.”
Christopher Alexander
World famous architect and author of Timeless way of Building
43.
44. “Good community architecture invites many different
levels of participation. Consider the variety of activities
we might find in a city neighbourhood on any given day:
solitary shoppers, people walking briskly to work,
friends out for a casual stroll, couples chatting at an
outdoor cafe, a crowd watching a street performer.
Others are on the periphery, watching the action fromOthers are on the periphery, watching the action from
the windows above the street.”
Ettienne Wegner
Best known for foundational work in the field Communities of Practice
(Extracted from his paper “7 Principles for cultivating communities of
practice”)
45.
46. There is a strong congruence and connection between
Open Space Technology and that of developing and
nurturing Communities of Practice.nurturing Communities of Practice.
What connections can you see?
47.
48. Use this card to open up conversations about what it
might mean to work with Open Space Technology.
Some have provocatively said:
“Open Space Technology is only for the most“Open Space Technology is only for the most
advanced of organisations”.