The Psychoanalytic Implication of Open Space Events

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.

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