{"id":518,"date":"2005-11-12T15:33:28","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T20:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/?p=518"},"modified":"2005-11-13T02:48:44","modified_gmt":"2005-11-13T07:48:44","slug":"practicing-inside-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/11\/12\/practicing-inside-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicing Inside Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still here in the middle of BlawgThink2005<\/a>, a blogging and tech conference with an Open Space unconference dropped into the middle of it. <\/p>\n

The design we’re using here, 3\/4 of a day in traditional “tracks” followed by a 4:15pm opening and a first breakout session from 5:30pm to 6:30pm, simply should not work. It should not be possible to have the energized conversations we did at 6:30pm last night. Nor should we have gotten away with a panel talk this morning, followed by three more sessions of Open Space. <\/p>\n

There is something about blogging and technology that seems to have reshaped the minds of these folks, mine too. Might be changing what is possible in organization and community. When I look at blogging, wiki, Open Space<\/a>, mapping and the like, I notice that they all have embedded in them some degree of watching and listening to what’s “outside” while simultaneously not “turning off” what is happening “inside” of me. <\/p>\n

Embedded in all of these methods is an active practice and continual refinement of the pulsation between inside and outside, self and other, seeing and doing. I think this refinement of mind makes it easier to move between “traditional” hierarchy mode and the self-organizing Open Space mode. Then again, it might just be because we’re swimming in laptops here, with lots of pulsing between conference and other work. <\/p>\n

Either way, I find the ease of meeting, facilitating, documenting and learning here encouraging. For the record, we’re 80-90 people here, posted 30 issues into 4 time slots, documenting everything in MindJet<\/a> mapping software. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still here in the middle of BlawgThink2005, a blogging and tech conference with an Open Space unconference dropped into the middle of it. The design we’re using here, 3\/4 of a day in traditional “tracks” followed by a 4:15pm opening and a first breakout session from 5:30pm to 6:30pm, simply should not work. It should … <\/p>\n

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