If you can’t make the 16th Annual World Open Space on Open Space (see below), maybe you can join the 7th Annual Scandanavian OSonOS. It will take place in Ås kommune in Norway, not far from Oslo, on August 8-9. The full invitation is still being worked out by our Norweigian colleagues, but you might keep an eye on sidebar at www.openspaceconsulting.com for details.
The World Open Space on Open Space (WOSonOS) is a conference in and about Open Space — for facilitators, organizations and colleagues who use Open Space.
Join us July 21 through 28, 2008, in San Francisco, California, USA. “What Can We Learn / Share / Teach / Explore / Discover with Each Other about our work in Open Space around the world?” That is what we want to find out!
This year, a full week of events includes an Open Space Learning Workshop (July 21-22), an Author Evening with Harrison Owen and the launch of his Third Edition of Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide, and several days in and about Open Space with colleagues from around the world.
Part of the one of the annual series international conference of the global personal and organizational leadership movement Initiatives of Change, July 3-9, will use Open Space Technology. The event will take place in Caux, Switzerland.
Initiatives of Change (Caux) started in Europe over 60 years ago. As a lay movement, it seeks to bring people from all walks of life and from all societal sectors to foster the capacity for personal, daily leadership.
The program for the conference entitled, Global Servant-Leadership: Contributing to Human Security, is available here.
Mike Aaron of National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation shares this about the upcoming conference:
Are you dedicated to solving tough problems through honest talk, quality thinking and collaborative action? Come join hundreds of others who believe that better communication is the key to solving many of the biggest problems facing our organizations, communities, and societies.
Join us October 3-5, 2008 in Austin, Texas for the fourth National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation: Creating Cultures of Collaboration. [Early registration through May 16th]
NCDD’s dynamic conferences bring together leaders and future leaders in public engagement, conflict resolution and related fields to share resources and strategies, build lasting relationships, increase the visibility and effectiveness of their work, tackle challenges we face, and initiate collaborative projects. Many people who have attended NCDD conferences say they’re the best conferences they’ve ever attended.
Patricia Haines sez:
The 1st of a series of OS gatherings laying foundations for a local/global arts & sustainability initiative will meet in Ithaca, NY April 25 & 26.
An outgrowth of the US Partnership for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development’s Open Space Convocation in Raleigh, NC in March ‘06, “GREENING THE ARTS, a Symposium to Explore a Role for the Arts in Creating a Sustainable World” combines an informal panel review of who is doing, thinking and saying what about ‘green’ art around the world with an OS to generate action plans for local/regional and global next steps.
Information mailto:artsattheheart@yahoo.com
Lisa Heft (Vice President, Open Space Institute USA, past OSLIST Poet Laureate and Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution and host, WOSonOS 2008) will be facilitating Open Space Learning Workshops in San Francisco on the following dates: May 28-30, July 21-22 and December 17-19, 2008. She will also facilitate this workshop in Atlanta, Georgia USA on April 9-10, 2008.
Co-create a theme, experience a several-session Open Space, taste how action planning works in Open Space, learn about all the pre-work (invitation, planning, design, theme, logistics, documentation), variations, ‘what ifs’, ‘when not to’s’ and more. You will also receive a copy of the “Open Space Idea Book”.
For more information, contact Lisa Heft.
from Jack Martin Leith in Bristol, UK:
Barry Owen has established an Open Space Technology group on Facebook, the social networking site. The group already has more than 80 members from a wide range of countries.
If you are unfamiliar with Facebook groups, they are a place where group members can post relevant links, photos and videos, participate in discussions on specific topics, and leave messages for other members. Also, the group administrator - Barry in this case - can message the whole group with news, stories and so on.
Barry set up the group primarily as a repository for Open Space related stories, but I got involved last week (my official role is “UK correspondent” - thanks Barry, I feel like a CNN reporter) and have been busy uploading photos and links. Any member can do that - no fancy title required!
How do you become a member?
If you’re already a Facebook user, click here, log in and click on Join this group, which you’ll see at the top of the right hand sidebar. That’s all you have to. You can start posting to the group immediately.
If you’re not yet a Facebook user, go to www.facebook.com and enter your details into the boxes that appear below Sign up for Facebook.
If you only want to use Facebook to access the Open Space Technology group, you can provide the barest details on your profile and not bother with the Friends bit. But once you’re in you’ll probably get hooked. Many people find it a useful extra way of keeping in touch with their friends and acquaintances.
If you have ay questions or concerns, please contact either me or Barry and we’ll do our best to help you.
Hope to see you on Facebook!
This is to let you know that 5 french executives will exchange on their OS practices in Paris on April 3rd. If you happen to be in Paris then you are invited and welcome. You will find hereunder the details of the event and how to confirm your participation. Contact Philippe SLIOUSSARENKO for complete details.
MHG Europe a le plaisir de vous inviter à la réunion sur le thème :
LA METHODOLOGIE OPEN SPACE
Une démarche de conduite de réunion en petit ou grand groupe ou une nouvelle façon de s’organiser et de penser ?
Avec la participation de dirigeants ayant pratiqué l’Open Space :
§ M. Sylvain AUGERE, Directeur de l’Animation des Réseaux de Formation, UIMM
§ M. Emmanuel CAUX, Directeur Général Région France Nord, STARWOOD HOTELS AND RESORTS
§ M .José PIRES - GOMES, Président, GROUPE FRANCE BOISSONS
§ M. Hervé MARTIN, Directeur Général, SENSITIVE OBJECT
§ M. Emmanuel MASSY, Directeur Marché Gares, GROUPE ELIOR
Nous poursuivrons ensuite nos échanges autour d’un cocktail dînatoire. Dans l’attente de vous recevoir, je vous adresse mes plus sincères
salutations. — Philippe SLIOUSSARENKO
Larry Peterson says:
Read the notes from another great conversation, in February, among contacts from institutes and groups from 8 countries around the world. We focused on Worldwide OSonOS which will be held in San Francisco so check it out. We also explored the possibilities for upcoming events in Taipei, Taiwan and Berlin (or another European location).
There were also some great stories of development in various countries and groups.
Thomas Herrman facilitated and Larry Peterson took the notes.
See you in San Francisco!
This just in from Switzerland, about a meeting for practitioners upcoming on March 19th — contact Catherine Corbaz to join this group:
There will be a meeting in the french speaking part of Switzerland to discuss about the way to promote OST in our area. We may talk about the creation of a website or how to use the existing possibilities. A possible Swiss open space institute might be a perspective (that would meant include the german OST facilitators) or to improve the connection with the blog the Canadian created. The meeting will be on the 19 of march.
Best regards from Switzerland (it’s snowing !!! at least)
The World Open Space on Open Space (WOSonOS) is a conference in and about Open Space — for facilitators, organizations and colleagues who use Open Space.
Join us July 21 through 28, 2008, in San Francisco, California, USA. “What Can We Learn / Share / Teach / Explore / Discover with Each Other about our work in Open Space around the world?” That is what we want to find out!
This year, a full week of events includes an Open Space Learning Workshop (July 21-22), an Author Evening with Harrison Owen and the launch of his Third Edition of Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide, and several days in and about Open Space with colleagues from around the world.
The author of the Change Management Toolbook, Holger Nauheimer is going to present his training course, Be The Change, in Boston, April 4-5, 2008 (with a half day free presentation on recent trends in Change Management on April 3, 2008). See the conference flyer and registration page.
Worldwide OpenSpace-Online® Real-Time Conference for OST Practitioners:
“Open Space Technology (OST) - What have we learned and where can it lead us next?”
OST facilitators from around the globe are warmly invited to join a 4-hour OpenSpace-Online Conference on Open Space Technology (OST) on June 30th / July 1st , 2007 (depending on the time zone).
What is OpenSpace-Online®?
The general purpose of the OpenSpace-Online Real-Time Meeting Methodology is to enable organizations to consciously act as “life long learning organizations”, to empower interest and work groups as well as change facilitators to independently co-create the future for the greater good of society, and the whole planet by overcoming the limitations of time and space. The self-contained online methodology is setting worldwide new innovation standards for global e-collaboration by enabling holistic and highly participative architectures to link multifaceted ways of face-to-face and on-line activities in business, community, education, health-care, social and governmental settings.
This Global Open Space Community Conference is addressed to OST facilitators, practitioners and sponsors who are interested in sharing thoughts, ideas and resources about Open Space Technology. The conference also provides opportunities for greeting old Open Space friends and for meeting new Open Space colleagues.
*How do we support communities and organizations to become enablers of ongoing Open Space?
*How do local and global crises influence us,our clients and our work today and tomorrow?
These are just two of the questions that could be raised as we consider present and future issues and opportunities for opening and holding space. We look very much forward to your participation and your own specific questions, issues and ideas!
Further information and free of charge registration till June 24th, 2007 (thank you to NEULAND, whose sponsorship enables a free of charge community event):
https ://www.OpenSpace-Online.com/event/070630/index.php
Warmest regards
Gabriela Ender and Co-Inviters
Michael posted this invitation to the first-ever World Open Space on Open Space in French yesterday, and here from Marquis Bureau is the invitation itself in French:
La voici en grande primeur : l’invitation au tout premier Forum ouvert mondial sur le Forum ouvert en français. L’événement se tiendra à Val-David près de Montréal, au Québec, Canada, les 14, 15 et 16 septembre, sous le thème Aller un peu plus haut, un peu plus loin, dans nos connaissances et pratiques du Forum ouvert.
Les couleurs automnales et la beauté particulière de l’endroit contribueront certainement à la richesse de l’expérience que nous vous invitons à vivre avec nous.
Nous vous serions reconnaissants de nous aider à diffuser notre invitation. Nous avons trouvé une auberge qui offre plusieurs options d’hébergement, à prix plus que raisonnable.
Nous avons hâte d’accueillir des participants de toute la Francophonie. La date limite d’inscription est le 13 août 2007.
Au plaisir de vous rencontrer à Val-David!
Le comité organisateur
Étienne Beaulieu, Louise Brissette, Marquis Bureau, Diane Gibeault, Roch Landry, Esther Matte
Pour de plus amples renseignements :
Louise Brissette: louisebrissette (a) ipsai.net
ou Roch Landry: roch (a) rochlandry.com
Click here for registration form. (Word)
Click here for complete details. (PDF)
I suppose this should really be in French, and maybe it will be reposted that way. But for now I have it in English…
Our invitation to the very first World Open Space on Open Space in French which will take place September 14, 15 and 16 in Val-David near Montreal, Québec, Canada is now available.
The theme is Aller un peu plus haut, un peu plus loin, dans nos connaissances et pratiques du Forum ouvert. (Reaching New Heights in our Knowledge and our Practices of Open Space).
Fall colours and the particular beauty of Val-David will no doubt contribute to a very rich event for all of us.
Please help us in disseminating our invitation. We found an inn proposing a variety of lodging options and prices.
Deadline for registration is August 13, 2007. We look forward to welcoming participants from the world Francophonie.
Warmly,
The Organizing Committee
Étienne Beaulieu, Louise Brissette, Marquis Bureau, Diane Gibeault, Roch Landry, and Esther Matte
For additional information, please contact:
Louise Brissette or Roch Landry
Kaliya Hamlin and friends are working in the world of network technology and making an important link between the Open Space and Unconferencing movements. Here’s a good invitation and example…
The Supernova Open Space Workshop is an open forum on the social, moral, technical, and strategic questions impacting the increasingly connected world in which we live. Discussions about topics like user control, neutrality, identity and open standards are setting the stage for future policies and economic decisions. Come to this event to learn more, participate in the community and shape the future of the New Network.
The workshop is being organized in conjunction with the Supernova 2007 conference (notably, sponsored by Wharton Business School), but is a distinct event, open to the entire community.
Go, Kaliya! Go!
Jamie Pitts at Church World Service Immigration and Refugee Program sends along the following:
Hi- I’m coordinating a nationwide project, Interethnic Dialogues on Immigration, that will use OST. The web address is www.immigrationdialogues.org.
These will take place in various places around United States.
Wendy Farmer-O’Neil announces an April 28th stammtische in Nanaimo (British Columbia) for those who will be unable to attend the Toronto Open Space on Open Space April 27th and April 28th:
In confluence with our friends to the east who will be opening space at the Toronto OSonOS, we are hosting a West Coast Canada Stammtisch on Saturday, April 28th for all of those who want to join us. We will be gathering at Muddy Waters Marine Pub (within walking distance of the Vancouver Ferry) on the water in Nanaimo at 1:00. We look forward to seeing you there!
Directions are available here.
Loving Work and Leading :: Workshop on Facilitating Organizational Transformation:
Here’s a great chance to learn more about using large group processes to facilitate organizational change. You’ll learn through practicing a variety of powerful group processe including Open Space Technology, Technology of Participation and others. The facilitator is Mark Pixley for Leadership Inc, who is highly experienced and masterful at using group processes.
The Identity Open Space event following the Liberty Alliance Meeting in Vancouver was a big success. Liberty Alliance invited us to cooperate once again and so immediately following their April meeting we will again be co-producing an Identity Open Space.April 26-27, in Brussels.
Can anyone help me with the Italian here? Declaration of the Millenium? It seems whatever they’re doing, they’ll be using OST between other events, I think. March 30-April 1. ISF TRENTO:
con l’organizzazione dell’Open Space Technology, assieme agli ex-studenti del corso di Metodologie Partecipate e a tutti gli interessati. L’evento sarà incentrato sul tema della “mobilità sostenibile” ed inserito tra le attività della 3 giorni di fine marzo.
Gabdulla Hamitov facilitates conference on youth leadership development, “Path to the Future”
Ufa, Bashkortostan (Russia)
photos courtesy of Bashtorg, a major regional wholesaler in Russia
Since the 14th annual international Open Space on Open Space conference in Moscow in August 2006, OST has continued to be applied in many different kinds of organizations, especially in companies.
Recent applications include a meeting on personal safety and responsibility with RusAl, one of the largest aluminum producers in the world.
The sponsor, Elena Sochkina, responsible for corporate culture, noted “my most pleasant discoveries with the Open Space method were:
*the number of participants is limited only by the size of the physical meeting space.
*the conditions are created where formal boundaries are erased (status, hierarchical, and professional)
* the participants create the agenda (which is the guarantee of success).”
(Direktor po Personalu magazine)
OST has also been used recently with major Russian political parties, at marketing conferences, training conferences, at a coaching conference (co-sponsored by Open Space Institute-Russia), with Russia’s Central Bank, with cellular phone service provider Beeline, and with a major pharmaceutical company.
Note: PROMT offers a free and relatively good quality Russian to English webpage translation service.
Jonathan Burrows curates a season of discussion, enquiry and debate in a program called Parallel Voices. Through February to the end of March 2007, Jonathan Burrows has been invited to curate a series of artists’ talks as part of a public art season at Siobhan Davies Studios, St. Georges Road, London. The program(s) will welcome leading dance and theatre artists, where, over four evenings, three artists will discuss their passions in an open session of enquiry and debate.
On Saturday 31 March, the season will culminate in an Open Space meeting called THE BIGGER PICTURE, for everybody interested in dance. Open Space is a method of running a large meeting in a more flexible and lively way, to approach a subject without an agenda, and allow the people there to create their own conference. We see it as an opportunity to look at where we’ve come from, where we are now and what we might wish for in the future.
