Open Space
Open Space Technology (OST) is an innovative approach to living and working together that reframes our understanding of how events unfold within our lives and in our work with one another.
OST, and the Open Space guidelines detailed below, were originally developed by Harrison Owen in 1983, and have since become a significant world-wide leadership and facilitation practice that can transform our way of being and working together.
Principles of Open Space
- When it starts, it starts.
- Whoever comes is the right people.
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
- When it's over, it's over.
Law of Two Feet
- If at any time you are neither learning nor contributing, you have a responsibility to go where you can.
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