About the Open Space: Abundance in Chaos
photo Josef Dabernig (@dasjo)
we think—if we're wrong please tell us
Josef Dabernig (@dasjo)
We won't soon forget the disruption that we faced beginning in March 2020. Our response to the edge of chaos?
We opened space.
This was our first experimental virtual Open Space circle. Today we embrace the benefits of virtual distributed Open Space. I think we will always hold virtual Open Spaces, and we also long for the options to return to an in-situ circle.
Learn more about our Open Space Leadership Training. Explore this historical page announcing our first online Open Space, read our articles on Open Space, or ask us about your virtual event.
Where ever it happens is the only place that it could.
You're invited to a world-wide, large-scale, distributed Open Space Circle online Sunday, 29 March.
Abundance in Chaos
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What Happens Now?
This open space is for agile change-makers, coaches, leaders, teachers, facilitators and other agents of transformative change.
We want to learn more about holding remote Open Spaces too. We're curious what we'll learn from a Coaching Cocktails Open Space.
Our theme is : Abundance in Chaos.
Our Big Question is “What happens now?”
You're invited to move freely about this Open Space Circle guided by your interests finding the questions and answers you care most about. This circle is our space to explore together.
An Open Space provides space to raise all your questions. It also provides space to consider all potential answers. We will create our agenda when you arrive.
What will emerge? We don't know. But we do know that whatever happens will be the only thing that could.
Considering abundance in this exact moment of apparent scarcity and chaos. What happens now?
Adding a 30 minute debrief: Holding Open Space Online
We'll add a 30 minute meta session after each planned 2-hour Open Space circle. As with all things open space it's optional and there if it gives value.
A lot of people seem interested, and curious about online open space right now. No surprise!
This meta session is a time to debrief and share observations and reflections about the “mechanics” of open space and what we observed from this remote open space experiment.
Our Circles
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We are holding 2 circles to comfortably welcome more people from around the world. In each circle:
- Full virtual Opening Circle
- Full virtual Closing Circle
- Move freely through breakout sessions and conversations
- Butterflies and Bumblebees
Chose a circle to join. Or join both.
Call for Questions and Themes
For change-makers, coaches, leaders, teachers, facilitators and other agents of change, this open space asks: What happens now?
(Sunday, 29 March, 2020)
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Full Invitation: Abundance in Chaos
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You’re invited to a world-wide, large-scale, distributed Open Space Circle online
Happening: Sunday, 29 March, 2020
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Readphoto ©2018 Josef Dabernig (@dasjo) Zürich Switzerland
ALE Open Space Unconference
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