Process freedom
This was my post on the Open Space listserve board today:
What I love most about open space is the many levels of process freedom that participants empower themselves and each other with … the open invitation to post freely, to move freely, to record freely, to take responsibility freely, to affiliate and collaborate freely. The process freedom that open space puts in the hands of participants speaks to the unique value of open space.
If I can welcome a delicious facilitator nap or bit of quiet Tibetan meditation in the middle of everything, why should I think about telling people what they should talk about, how, when, and with whom? If based on this, someone feels that open space is not right for certain groups at certain times, well, then surely something else will be … 
