Open Space Technology

In this sense ost is participant driven and less organizer convener dri.
Open space technology. Open space technology is one way to enable all kinds of people in any kind of organization to create inspired meetings and events. Participants self organise to create their own agenda on the day allowing a dynamic and immediate response to the issues at hand. Open space technology is a simple way to run productive meetings for five to 2000 people and a powerful approach to leadership in any kind of organization in everyday practice and turbulent change. Open space technology is a method for organizing and running a meeting or multi day conference where participants have been invited in order to focus on a specific important task or purpose.
There s a twist in this version with the inclusion of a process that gives the organizers a little more control over the agenda. It can work for as few as 5 people and as many as 5000. Participants create the agenda for themselves and facilitators lead and record the resulting discussions. A methodological tool that enables self organizing groups of all sizes to deal with hugely complex issues in a very short period of time.
Open space technology ost is an event format used in meetings of 5 to 2 000 people invented by harrison owen in 1985. Over the last 30 years it has also become clear that opening space as an intentional leadership practice can create inspired organizations where ordinary people work together to create extraordinary results with regularity. Open space technology has been defined as.