• Community: Developing Leadership

    Community development and organizational development aren't the same. Learn the paradoxical leadership stance of being fully present to community while also being detached.

    Community development and organizational development aren't the same. Learn the paradoxical leadership stance of being fully present to community while also being detached.

  • Allowing: Developing Leadership the Genuine Contact Way

    Allowing is a leadership skill wise teachers consistently include in formulas for success. In this episode, discover what skillful allowing actually looks like.

    Allowing is a leadership skill wise teachers consistently include in formulas for success. In this episode, discover what skillful allowing actually looks like.

  • Law of Two Feet

    Open Space Technology's one governing law puts responsibility for learning and contributing where it belongs: with each participant. Here is what that makes possible.

    Open Space Technology's one governing law puts responsibility for learning and contributing where it belongs: with each participant. Here is what that makes possible.

  • Safety and a Comfort Zone Aren't Possible in Meetings

    Genuine engagement requires moving beyond comfort. Here is why promising safety and comfort in a meeting designed for real change gets in the way.

    Genuine engagement requires moving beyond comfort. Here is why promising safety and comfort in a meeting designed for real change gets in the way.

  • accessing the best ideas

    The best ideas in most organizations are never heard inside them. They stay at the supper table. Creating the right conditions for sharing changes that.

    The best ideas in most organizations are never heard inside them. They stay at the supper table. Creating the right conditions for sharing changes that.

  • Well Done Meeting

    A room of women with no reason to trust, and a twenty-year-old who somehow got it right. This is where four decades of meeting practice began.

    A room of women with no reason to trust, and a twenty-year-old who somehow got it right. This is where four decades of meeting practice began.

  • Everywhere participatory meetings are used, skeptics shift to tentative engagement and then to lively creativity. The power of collective imagination is waiting in every room.

    Everywhere participatory meetings are used, skeptics shift to tentative engagement and then to lively creativity. The power of collective imagination is waiting in every room.

  • The best way to begin building a culture of leadership is with a meeting. Open Space Technology lets you start exactly where you are.

    The best way to begin building a culture of leadership is with a meeting. Open Space Technology lets you start exactly where you are.

  • A well-designed retreat needs a cohesive operating matrix that holds all activities together. Without one, cognitive dissonance replaces the energy needed for real innovation.

    A well-designed retreat needs a cohesive operating matrix that holds all activities together. Without one, cognitive dissonance replaces the energy needed for real innovation.

  • Whole System Meetings

    Whole system meetings involve everyone with a stake in the change – and accomplish in hours or days what conventionally structured processes take weeks or months to achieve.

    Whole system meetings involve everyone with a stake in the change – and accomplish in hours or days what conventionally structured processes take weeks or months to achieve.