We are just beginning to develop this new approach to developing collective resonance. We expect to gather up all the principles and practices followed by people everywhere, that tend to support or develop better connections between people.
We see this "portal" as a kind of gateway process, through which potentially millions of people could enter, joining an agreement of trust and understanding and spiritual acceleration, that can lead to a transformation of culture.
This process of agreement and shared understanding is just beginning, and will continue to unfold here. Please check off the principles and practices you can agree with.
Rule 1--Whoever comes is the right people. If the invitation is clear about the issue and focused enough for people to understand what is being discussed, those with passion about it will come to the event. This works for groups from 5 to 1000 people. This also applies to the discussion groups within the Open Space. It helps conveners focus on the quality of the discussion, not the quantity of people who come. For good conversation, you only need one other person who shares your passion.
Rule 2--Whatever happens is the only thing that could have. It is not possible to predict or control what will happen when people who care passionately about something get together to share information and move beyond our original agendas and old expectations. Opening the Space creates conditions for new ideas to emerge and creative possibilities to be entertained in ways that would be impossible in more conventional sessions.
Rule 3--Whenever it starts is the right time. The nature of creativity makes this rule a very important reminder. Just because a session is scheduled to start at 9:00 AM, there is absolutely no guarantee that anything useful will take place at that moment.
Rule 4--When it’s over, it’s over. Don’t take longer than it requires to get to the end of your discussion, and don’t stop just because the scheduled end time has come and gone.
The One Law—The Law of Two Feet: if during the course of the gathering, any person finds him or herself in a situation where they are neither learning or contributing, they MUST use their two feet and go to some more productive place.
Open Space WORKSHOP II: Open Space What we care passionately about and want to take action on Imagine you could gather all the people in your neighborhood or community to talk about the things they care passionately about and want to act on. Open Space provides a fast, inexpensive and simple way to invite everyone with a passion for community connection and sustainability to talk about the concerns and issues for which they want to see something happen. It provides an opportunity for the people in your community to engage with each other, to become excited, innovative, creative and ready to take responsibility for what they care about.
The Principal Principles are simple, Tips and Tools are straight out of the book, and Resources provide a cookbook for whipping up a self-organizing feast of creativity, energy and action.
Principal Principles
This is an exercise in self-organization; emergence is the principal principle, and it is based on the belief that the group--consisting of all who care--can from their collective wisdom arrive at solutions that no individual or small group can hope to devise. Subtle structure of passion bounded by responsibility: For Open Space to work
it must deal with a real issue that is of passionate concern to those who will be involved, and
those involved must have the latitude to act on what emerges for them from the discussion sessions.
This project is brand-new and in progress. Everything is taking shape at the same time, everything is changing and growing.
Thanks for being here, thanks for becoming involved, thanks for your patience...
