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Category Archives "Open Space"

Why is it called Open Space “Technology?”

May 5, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Open Space One Comment

I get asked this question a lot.  It makes me laugh because truthfully there is very little “technology” to an Open Space Technology meeting.  You just need some paper and markers and some tape and away you go.  In fact you don’t even need that. So why is it called “Technology?”  Well, I have known the story for a long time, but today I goaded my old friend Harrison Owen to tell it again, and he did, beautifully, on the OSLIST: It was 1989 in Bombay (now Mumbai). My friend and colleague, one V.S. Mahesh, a senior member of the …

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Using Open Space Technology

July 22, 2014 By Chris Corrigan Open Space 4 Comments

A post I made to the OSLIST today… I seek simplicity in trying to describe where and how Open Space does it’s magic. One of the ways I have had excellent success over the years in describing this work is derived from David Snowden’s work on the Cynefin framework. The short story is this: We are faced all the time with problems that are basically knowable, and problems that aren’t. Knowable problems mean that with the right knowledge and expertise, they can be fixed. A technical team can come together and analyse the causes, work with what’s available and craft …

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Practice Notes: Cafes for taking a conference to action

October 27, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Conversation, Design, Facilitation, Open Space, World Cafe One Comment

This week I was hosting at a moderately sized conference in Victoria BC with 100 regional public sector union members.  The purpose of the gathering was to increase the number of active members and to inspire members to engage and improve local communities.  These union members all work in the public service and so they have a close ear to the ground on the issues facing communities from homelessness to addictions to environmental degradation to service levels in health and education.  Many of them took public service jobs in the first place because they are caring and committed people, intent …

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Using Open Space in traditional conference design

October 3, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Conversation, Design, Facilitation, Open Space 4 Comments

I have used Open Space in almost every way conceivable and what Lisa Heft wrote on the OSLIST today about using it with traditional conferences strikes home.  This is good wisdom, friends: My experience is that – if doing a mix of ‘traditional’ format conference and Open Space – the most ideal situation is traditional, (recreation day before or after that or after the whole conference) and then Open Space. I have seen that if Open Space happens first – when there is the switch to traditional, participants feel uncomfortable and ‘edgy’ because they have tasted the power of self-organization …

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Visioning as the estuary of action

December 7, 2011 By Chris Corrigan BC, Design, Emergence, Flow, Improv, Leadership, Learning, Open Space, World Cafe One Comment

This is an estuary.  It is the place where a river goes to die.  Everything the river has ever been and everything it has carried within it, is deposited at it’s mouth where the flow slows down and the water merges with the ocean.  These are places of incredible calm and richness, but they lack the exciting flow of the torrents and waterfalls and cascades of the upper river system. Yesterday I was speaking with a client who worried that an initiative we had begun together was heading towards the estuary of action – a long term visioning processes where …

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