Unconference Mini Wisdom

A few days ago, I co-facilitated one of the LnD Connect unconferences along with three fabulous people I know thanks to Twitter and the insightful chats we often join, along with many others, via #LDInsight.
This is not an attempt to describe the day in full. Indeed, there would be little point as I believe everybody involved will have experienced it differently and taken away their own ideas and inspirations.
Any of you who have experienced the Open Space Technique/Technology will know that it has quite an unstructured approach leading to the co-creation of discussion topics from whoever is there. Those in the room are the right people and the discussions that take place are the right ones that could have happened. People have 'permission' to stay with a conversation or to move on - they can hover like a butterfly or stay, pollinate the conversation like a bee, then fly away to cross pollinate other discussions. As a facilitator, this can be quite daunting. I was so nervous, ye…
This is not an attempt to describe the day in full. Indeed, there would be little point as I believe everybody involved will have experienced it differently and taken away their own ideas and inspirations.
Any of you who have experienced the Open Space Technique/Technology will know that it has quite an unstructured approach leading to the co-creation of discussion topics from whoever is there. Those in the room are the right people and the discussions that take place are the right ones that could have happened. People have 'permission' to stay with a conversation or to move on - they can hover like a butterfly or stay, pollinate the conversation like a bee, then fly away to cross pollinate other discussions. As a facilitator, this can be quite daunting. I was so nervous, ye…