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This presentation was delivered: October 2002.

Paper published in The Journal of the Australian Institute of Socio-Analysis, Vol. 5, December 2003.

My thesis is that Open Space conferences can harness large-group forces in a non-hierarchical way. They allow people to organize themselves, and provide an infrastructure for business that needs doing. Participants control what happens and work at issues they consider important. These events then can serve as models for well-functioning non-hierarchical organizations which have few of the characteristics required by my colleagues in the seminar.

This presentation was delivered: At a Conference on Information Technology Futures, October 2001.

Published in Ruptures: Revue Transdisciplinaire en Sante, Vol. 9 (2), 2003.

In my response, I will argue that Contandriopoulos has effectively described the health care field as a complex system and has recognized that interventions must be appropriate to this complexity. I will then comment on his ideas about inertia and change in such systems.

This presentation was delivered:

• To Meeting Patient Needs: Achieving and Sustaining Practical Change sponsored by the Department of Human Services Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) May 22, 2003.
• To the Womens Health Council, Marriott Courtyard Hotel (Toronto, Ontario) February 6, 2003.
• At the Healthy Connections Conference on September 19, 2001.
• Halton and Peel Regions (Mississauga, Ontario) October 25, 2001.

This presentation was delivered to the Department of Human Services Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), May 24, 2003.

This presentation was delivered to the Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres (Toronto, Ontario), February 16, 2005.