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.
The role of the facilitator in Open Space: present, and out of the way
24 September 2026
What a facilitator does before, during and after the day: the givens with the client, opening the space, and why doing less gives more.
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.
Open Space's four principles: why self-organization works
21 September 2026
The four principles, and why self-organization works: from traffic to forests, and why Scrum, Agile and S3 often do no better.