Today as I walked into the classroom, I was greeted with an unexpected sight. The entire class was seated in a circle. I thought a big round of Kumbaya was about to begin; unfortunately (or fortunately), this did not occur. Instead, I was treated to the “open space” concept. Open space is designed to encourage creativity and allow people (students in this case) to come up with ideas and allow others to gravitate towards them.
Rick instructed us to write our ideas of how Colwood can become carbon neutral on large sheets of paper, and post them on the board. However feels strongly with any particular project can then join that project, or, if nothing of interest is available, anyone is free to make their own.
Rick described open space as whatever happened was the only thing that could have happened, and whoever joined in on the projects were the only ones who should have. He also described the law of 2 feet, and that people were able to use their 2 feet to decide where they wanted to be.
My 2 feet brought me to a group planning to map out Colwoods bicycle trails. We quickly decided that this was too daunting of a task. We decided to just map out the trails of Royal Roads University, which seems a much more reasonable concept.
I planned to procure a GPS from the school and test it out before actually mapping out the trail system.
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A lot of you were worried about "a big round of Kumbaya"
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