At the Proceders conference, Raban Daniel Fuhrmann talks about what's needed to make the application of collaborative methods more popular in Processes of change in society and industry. He says we need to be aware and to increase awareness on a broader scale. He provides an interesting way of categorization of changeinterventions: If you look at the time frame of methodologies, there are:


- methods (which takes seconds or minutes)
- events (hours/days)
- projects (weeks/months)
- organizations (years)


People are the only reason for complexity in change processes - that is why collaborative methodologies intend to involve people in the process. The more complexity you have, the more open the methodology needs to be.

On the same event, Holger Nauheimer presented the framework of Ralph Stacey for decision taking depending on levels of complexity (agreement versus certainty matrix):


Back to Raban - how to increase the popularity of Open Space etc.? New paradigms as he says should be beautiful, attractive, and in the sense of Malcolm Gladwell's tipping point we need connectors that are able to initiate an epedemics of application of these collaborative approaches.


But we also need to disseminate rational reasons and explain the values in which those approaches are rooted. There is a clear humanistic perspective embedded in the modern collaborative approaches that are described in Peggy Holman's Change Handbook.