OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGY
Your Participants Are the Experts.
Let Them Lead.
Open Space Technology is radical. It's honest. It's you saying to your participants: I trust you. I believe in your richness. I invite you fully into this conversation- not as an audience, but as real partners.
In a normal conference, one-way communication flows from stage to seat. In Open Space, everyone participates, everyone can host, and everyone co-creates content, ideas, solutions and conversations.
Developed by Harrison Owen and brought to Israel by the remarkable Tova Averbuch- Open Space is more than a methodology. It's a belief system. And it works every time.
The day starts with a simple question- one that matters to your whole system.
Participants propose sessions and workshops they want to lead or join. There's no pre-set agenda. The agenda emerges from what people actually care about, what's actually burning in them.
Inspired by bees and butterflies, we leave antiquated social norms at the door and follow our passion and responsibility. As the Law of Two Feet says- if you're neither contributing nor being contributed to, take your two feet and go somewhere else.
Sessions vary in size, length, and type of content or activity- but something real is always happening, everywhere, all at once. We ask a calling question that invites in multiple points of view- and then harvest it back into collective wisdom.
Open Space works for groups of 15 to 5,000 people, and needs a minimum of three hours to breathe. It comes into its full magic over a full day, or two.
Open Space walks a tight edge- minimal optimal structure that creates safety, shared understanding and schedule, paired with the maximum amount of freedom we can offer within a facilitated space.
It's generative chaos. It's trust. It's messy and it works.
