Michael's Open WorkSpace

This wiki-based WorkSpace is my scrapbook, file cabinet, desk reference, teaching tool, and back of the napkin notespace. Below you'll find a loose chronology of interests and learning, writing and inviting, personal exploration and professional practice, collected invitations and practice workshop proceedings. It's life and work in progress, offered for whatever good you might find here. I hope the rough edges and any broken or "?" links won't dampen your exploration.

Practicing Open Space Technology, 1995-2011

• OpenSpaceTechnology - extensive collection of articles, resources and working notes
• OpenSpaceTechnology/TrainingPracticeWorkshopProceedings - from Canada, China, Singapore, Ireland, India, Nepal, Australia, USA
• [OpenSpaceWorld.ORG] and [OpenSpaceWorld.NET] - founder/steward global practice community websites

Writing about Inviting Leadership, 2005-2008

• InvitingOrganizationEmerges - earliest telling of the "inviting" story (1998)
• InvitingLeadership - from OpenSpaceTechnology to InvitingOrganization
• InvitingLeadership/Retreat - getting important things done in a complex world
• InvitingLeadership/InvitingLeadership - the essence of InvitingLeadership in 32 lines
• InvitingLeadership/FourPracticesStory - a later, more evolved view of OpenSpacePractices
• LivingInOpenSpace - my contribution to the forthcoming practice anthology of the same name
• InvitingLeadership/TrainingNotes - latest outline/notes on the shape of InvitingLeadership practice learning
• [InvitingLeadershipWritingProjectIndex] - contents page for inviting leadership stories, outlines, notes, etc.

Writing for the Chicago SUN-TIMES Newspaper, 2007

• GetActive - Many hands make fast work of solutions to challenges on your street
• CommunityPolicing - Faith-based groups will take the lead initiating good deeds in neighborhoods
• PointsOfEntry - Links to neighborhood organizations and connections citywide

London Sabbatical, 2004-2005

• WorldHeadquarters - working days on [Jamyang] hospitality, nights on [SmallChangeNews], from this 140-year-old jail cell
• JamyangKitchenManual - procedures doc and basic cookbook written as "kitchen yogi" at [Jamyang]

The Giving Conference, 2004

• [GivingConferenceProceedings] - philanthropists, advisors, organizers and bloggers
• SmallChangeNews - working draft text for framing and launching "small change news" project
• CommunityService - taking stock of personal contributions to community activities

Nepal, 2002-2004 and 2006

• IndiaAndNepal2006 - our trip notes from northern india and kathmandu nepal, october 2006
• NepalConferenceSummary - first national summit of imagine initiatives of nepal, ai and ost
• NepalTrainingSummary - digest of ai and ost practices, as presented in conference training, see also NepalTrainingNotes
• NepalConferenceJournal - a longer, personal look at conference, with color commentary for westerners
• PracticingInNepal and TrekkingReport - notes from working/travels oct 2003

Miscellaneous Invitations, 2003-2007

• GreenCitySummits - invitation and planning work for [C3] Green Chicago events in January 2007
• PracticeOfPeace - invitation to an advanced OpenSpaceTechnology training program with MichaelHerman and Harrison Owen
• ToxinHandlerConferenceInvitation - planning conferences to connect toxin handlers
• ZappyBits - invitation to a day of introduction to Zapchen practice, Bowen Island Canada

Corporate Compassion, 2003-2004

• ToxinHandlerConferenceInvitation - planning conferences to connect toxin handlers
• CorporateCompassion - conversations, practices, and center for RadicalProfit
• OpeningTheHeartOfOrganization - resources list
• CenterForCorporateCompassion - framing notes
• WhatIsCompassion - wrestling with words for something...

Organizing Practices and Social Movements, 1995-2005

• GlobalChicagoNetwork - online collaboration and community, projects and experiments
• AppreciativeInquiry - practice notes
• SearchConference and ParticipativeDesign - training and practice with Merrilyn Emery
• Dialogue - the seeds of invitation as practice, with Sue Miller Hurst and Roger Breisch
• EncouragingMovements - a listing of positive waves appearing to be gaining momentum globally
• SomaticOrganization - ZappyBits for aligning bigger (community and organizational) bodies
• PatternLanguage - cultivating wholeness and life in things and organizations
• OrganizationAsNarrative - storytelling and complexity notes from the OpenSpaceTechnology/OSLIST
• AssetBasedCommunityDevelopment - notes from 3-day training with John McKnight? and Henry Moore
• TheLessonsOfEducation - seven ways the current structure of education fails
• NewWork - notes on the work of philosopher/activist frithjof bergmann
• HowardZinnOnWar - during the run-up to the war in Iraq
• StrategicQuestions - links to Fran Peavey and social change work
• SpontaneousOrder - the austrian school economists' case for OST
• DesignCharretteProcess - some notes on how this approach works
• WebCommunityBuilding - short list of 'how to' notes

Personal Stories, 1998-2006

• GrandmasLullaby - a personal story of leadership, caring and healing at the end of life (1998)
• OneHundredBloggers - working draft of my contribution to the 100bloggers book project (2005)
• BlogExperiment - blog, as in weblog. experiment because it's here in the wiki (2003)
• ProgressPeaceAndPossibility - reflections on an impossibly rich year of global travel and practice (2002)
• GuidedImageryAndMusic - a poetic session with friend and colleague LouiseMitran (2004)
• [fasting] - notes from 10-day fasting program, twice (pdf document) (2001-2002)
• [imaging peace] - art, youth and peace, a model program
• [art as a verb] - activating beauty

Brazil, 2001

• [brazil] - notes from my brush with joao de deus, brazilian miracle man (pdf document)
• [joao de deus] - about joao de deus, brazilian miracle man (pdf document)

Inspirations

• CriticalPath - a favorite bit from R. Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller's last book
• BriefHistoryOfEverything - my favorite bit from Ken Wilber's book by the same name
• AnOpenLife - a favorite bit of Joseph Campbell, interviewed by Michael Toms
• FourQuartets - a favorite bit of T.S.Eliot
• CreativePersonality - qualities of creative people, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• MonkInTheLab - tibet's dalai lama meets western brain science
• HowMuchDoYouCharge
• GlobalNetwork
• LotusFlower

Working Notes

• SOS-Chicago - working notes/proposal for gathering a circle of sustainability orgs in Chicago area
• AnythingIsPossible - notes on proposed quarterly gathering series
• MktChrts
• AdminToolbox