| The
Context & Finding The Best Response
Our
Twelve-Year Experiment
Key
Concepts
Annual
Reports
Haitian
Organizations using Open Space and Reflection Circles
What
American Know-How Has To Learn
and other stories
Open
Space Approach
Reflection
Circles
(Touchstones)
View
"Circles of Change: a quiet revolution in Haiti"
a
mini documentary about our Experiment
Photo:
D. Morel
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Open
Space is:
An approach that helps all kinds of people in any type of
organization to create effective, even inspiring, meetings
and events. The facilitation method assumes great things happen
when people who genuinely care about an issue and are willing
to take responsibility are provided the opportunity to do
so. Devised 20 years ago, Open Space is being used around
the world to help ordinary people and organizations achieve
extraordinary results.
Open Space has been used in 108 countries (open
space world map). The participant group can be of any
size, from seven to a thousand or more. The gathering is usually
held during a morning or afternoon, but could last up to three
days. Learn more at www.openspaceworld.org
or download
a two-page word document describing Open Space. Learn
how John Engle Associates
can help your organization become more vibrant.
Participants in Open Space will:
Create their own program of self-managed sessions related
to a central theme such as “What are the issues and opportunities
facing our school/organization?”
* Discuss issues of heartfelt concern.
* Share ideas, knowledge, and experience.
* Develop plans for collaborative action.
* Begin to develop into a community of learning and practice,
which is a group of people committed to improvement who are
engaged in an ongoing process of reflection and action. They
are intentional about cultivating and sharing their individual
and combined talents, skills, wisdom, and passions.
Open Space can:
* Energize a company/institution struggling with mediocrity.
* Mobilize a nonprofit in need of focus and energy.
* Facilitate a school's dealing with conflict.
* Lead a church/faith community through a time of change and
dispute.
* Help a neighborhood as it seeks to heal and/or build community.
* Enable local governments to do city planning and to make
decisions more democratically.
* Provide associations with a format that encourages their
members to take responsibility for their ideas.
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