Tova Averbuch shares insights from her extensive experience as a consultant, teacher, and facilitator of Organizational Development. Opening space on a level playing field means sharing leadership and power, which must have a good reason. She provides striking examples of when and how this works, even better in hierarchical organizations. Consultants/facilitators adopt the role of a midwife, fostering authentic participation of the formal leaders and inviting everyone needed in ever-widening circles in the system. Transcript

Chapters

• Introduction
• Looking for a new paradigm, bumping into Open Space Technology
• My first Open Space experience
• A playful invitation
• Facilitator as a midwife
• Don't judge leaders who are afraid to lose control
• Worries of leaders are information
• An example of a covenant with a High Tech startup
• The system is the client
• Ever-widening circles of engagement, the beginning never stops
• Hierarchy helps create a (temporary) level playing field
• Check-out

More information

• Website Tova Averbuch
• Book Initiating and Inviting Generative Change. Entry and Contracting for Emergent Outcomes in Result Driven Organizations. More info and order