Open Space Technology is an approach for hosting meetings, conferences, corporate-style retreats, symposiums, and community summit events, focused on a specific and important purpose or task—but beginning without any formal agenda, beyond the overall purpose or theme.



There are five principles that describe what happen in OPEN SPACE:

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Whoever comes are the right people.
Wherever it happens is the right place.
Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
Whenever it starts is the right time.
When it is over, it is over.
 

The Law of Two Feet: If at any time you find yourself in any situation where you are neither learning nor contributing, use your two feet to take yourself where your time will be better spent – only you know where this is.

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During an Open Space you might see people going from group to group spreading and connecting ideas, or hanging around doing very little except having conversations. All this collective activity adds up to a system of self-organisation that is highly creative and effective at dealing with real issues in a remarkably efficient way.

















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