Articles
What I write here comes from practice: sessions I ran myself, communities I was part of myself. Not advice from above, just what I learned along the way.
WOSonOS 2026 Eindhoven, two days on
21 September 2026
A personal reflection on WOSonOS 2026 Eindhoven: thirty years of Open Space community, a session on Liberating Structures next to Open Space, and the doubt I carried home myself.
The four principles that bring organizations back to self-organization
21 September 2026
Why Open Space's four principles still hold after thirty years, and why letting go is harder than planning.
Why self-organization works, the biology behind Open Space
21 September 2026
From traffic to forests to bodies: why self-organization is not hype, and why Scrum, Agile and S3 often don't do it better.
Does virtual Open Space actually work
21 September 2026
What makes online Open Space different from in person, what I learned myself about QiqoChat and Zoom, and why hybrid is the hardest middle ground.