Tomorrow I am facilitating the Open Space portion of the “Live in Public:the Art of Engagement” gathering in Open Space. In addition to the event running in meatspace, there is a live site on which you can follow along and play. The site is the primary harvest point for all that is happening at the conference and is a great example of a real time harvest. See you there, either in person, or online!
Last week Dave Pollard, author of How to Save the World interviewed me for his first podcast. We had a lovely conversation about essential human capacities, Open Space, unschooling and leadership. Head over to Dave’s quite excellent and prolific blog and have a listen. You can also download the podcast here. And thanks to Dave for inviting me in.
Harrison Owen – new age guru! To celebrate the New York Times’ inspired decision to finally open up it’s archives to the public for free, here is a link to a famous article from 1994 on Harrison Owen, Open Space and Rockport shoes. And as a bonus, here’s another from 1988, on the work of “New Age consultant” Harrison Owen who helped Owens-Corning Fiberglass find some spirit. This man has been ahead of his time for 30 years. [tags]openspacetech, harrison owen, rockport, owens-corning[/tags]
Henryvlle, Indiana I’m here at the Wooded Glen Retreat Centre in Henryville, which is in southern Indiana running an Art of Hosting with my mates Teresa Posakony, Tenneson Woolf, Tuesday Ryan and Howard Mason. It’s hot and humid here, punctuated by heavy downpours which feels as if the air is just wringing itself out. By contrats the rooms we are in are cold enough to hang meat, as Howard said, so it’s a little funny. Prior to being here I was in Camden, Maine joining Harrison Owen and 40 Open Space faiclitators at a little Open Space on …
In the OSLIST discussion on circles and presence, I added some thoughts, which I thought I’d republish here… My experience of the circle is first of all, that there has never been a group I have worked with – not business people, airplane engineers, entrepreneurs, government officials, community members – that hasn’t been just fine in a circle. No one has ever asked me not to set the room up a different way, although plenty of people have expressed their doubts that any of it would work. I’ve also done OST in other formats as well, like lecture halls, semi …