As part of my holidays I spent three days at the OSonOS, which is the annual conference for Open Space practitioners. For those who don't know Open Space Technology here's an excellent intro. To me it is quite simply an incredibly efficient meeting form, which treats people as adults capable of making their own … Continue Reading ››

Lars points to a very funny piece about the Open Space session i hosted in april for Collaboraid.

I had no idea that I do "power hand gestures", but I kinda like the sound of it.

The newly started network for free agents have asked me to speak at their first seminar on september 4th. I'll be talking about happiness at work, and how free agents can get it.

Hey, I forgot:
* Seeing Collaboraid (started by my good friend Lars Pind) win the Reboot award for startup of the year
* Helping Lars brainstorm for his wedding speech over a beer

Collaboraid is a very worthy winner, and here's a story that shows one of the reasons why. I'm glad … Continue Reading ››

Reboot6 is now over, and I'm totally beat from being the Open Space host. It's the first time I've hosted this many people in Open Space, but it went very well (if I do say so my self). Here's what I enjoyed most about Reboot6: * The excellent speakers * Cory Doctorow's armoured T-shirt - possibly the coolest … Continue Reading ››

I warmed up for the Reboot conference tomorrow by watching this clip of Douglas Rushkoffs talk from Reboot4, from which stems the following quote: "If a new technology doesn't help you meet people or get laid - why bother".

Every year, open space practitioners meet to learn more about the open space method from each other. This meeting is of course held as an open space meeting - I mean, what else?

And this year, this "Open Space on Open Space" is in Denmark, on august 23-26. You can read about it Continue Reading ››

Wednesday I returned from 4 days in Slovenia, attending a conference/course/seminar on "The art of hosting". Hosting is any activity, where you invite people to participate in a project, process, meeting, conversation etc. Being a host has some common characteristics, regardless of the type of activity or the people attending, and we explored the techniques, … Continue Reading ››