NOTES

Prologue

1. For a full account of Open Space and its applications, please see my books, Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide and Expanding Our Now: The Story of Open Space Technology. Both are published by Berrett-Koehler (1997). The first book supplies the “how-to” and the second describes the history of Open Space Technology and offers some interpretation.213

2. I am not sure that the case would be any stronger, but for sure my pride of creation would be enhanced, were I to have begun my adventure in Open Space with a consciously stated hypothesis, conditions, and procedures. Truthfully, I just stumbled into it. But that is the nature of a natural experiment, and probably says a great deal about the [f]utility of pride.

3. Our hesitancy ...

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