Sharing this post I wrote for the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance for their Making A Scene Conference 2012: Cultivating Change Through Conversation at Making A Scene 2012 Margaret Wheatley wrote, “Human conversation is the most ancient and easiest way to cultivate the conditions for change – personal change, community and organizational change, planetary change. […]
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Governexx Annual Forum
I spent today with a group of 100+ folks at an event with the purpose of “creating leadership platforms for innovative, imaginative and idea driven individuals in public service”. The core planning team for Governexx had some creative ideas in the agenda, like inviting both public service and private sector folks together, Chitter Chatter (their version […]
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, having run into a few examples of it personally. When people call a process “Open Space Technology” when it is not really Open Space Technology. Chris Corrigan sums it up nicely: One caveat: Open Space Technology is not a proprietary process, and therefore there are no […]
A helpful conversation on the Open Space Technology list about how many breakout spaces to prepare (answer is from Chris Corrigan). In groups of up to 50 I usually prepare breakout space enough for half of those people to host topics over the course of the event. Therefore a group of 40 needs 20 breakout spaces. […]
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Invitation is a Process
There is a great moment in John Hunter’s TED talk where he describe how he saw his teachers coming through him as he was teaching. I constantly have moments like that in my hosting work and one of the biggest is when I talk about invitation as a process. With conversations that matter, invitation isn’t […]