AVReading Newsletter June: Closing Up Open Space Technology
As we come to an end of our anti-racism sessions for this year, I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge a little both the process and the lessons we have learned along the way. In case you are confused, open space technology is the name for the process we employed this year for our anti-racism groupings. It basically consists of a creating a structure where a community designs its own learning groups and its own learning plan, but then periodically comes back together as a large group to share knowledge and understandings. (The name “open space technology” is actually really misleading since it really has nothing to do with technology in its conventional sense.) We will be collecting more formal data a little later, but in general we have found that people have appreciated the process. Some have liked the flexibility of the system, allowing people to choose the topics o...