Once an Open Space conference starts, participants self-organize into dozens of different dialogue and action groups. This organizational mode is especially effective in times of uncertainty or rapid change or when the sphere of operation is very complex, since centralized linear management systems cannot efficiently process the vast amounts of information involved. This would generate a wide variety of possible forms for and routes to diverse futures all of which embody new era values and take into account new era realities. The resulting futures would align to new era values because only people for whom new era values were paramount would participate in formulating those futures. We need to discover the few truly fundamental principles we're basing our new era visions on, and use those.
Most visions suffer from a lack of understanding possibility and the future.
Most people see the future as a place to get to and live as though the future is waiting out there in front of us with an existence of its own. In these limited linear models of the universe and time, a vision as a goal makes perfect sense. But even so, there must be some value inherent in having a vision. Codifying what's possible closes possibility. Exploring what's possible and engaging in the thinking, dialogues and actions that develop those possibilities are both of great value.