somehow i missed the earlier collecting, even as you'd ping'd me about the alaska story, zelle. here are some more to add to the list, if you like. an interesting variety of hybrid designs. i'll paste the lot of them into a resources page at
<a href="http://openspaceworld.org">openspaceworld.org</a>, or you can do that directly for yourself, if you remember how. then we can link it to other pages and announce it in the weblog. thanks, m <br><br>---<br><br><strong>
In Racine, Wisconsin, 35 young people</strong> (ages 12-20)
gathered for one 4-hour, afterschool conference in Open Space. As a
result of that meeting they initiated a youth art newsletter, a
downtown, lakefront skateboarding park, and the largest YMCA Earth
Service Corps chapter in the country. They called themselves 'Youth
Action,' used OST at all their meetings, and eventually ended up
introducing OST to young leaders from all over the USA. <span style="font-style: italic;"> They presented in a standard sort of 45-minute timeslot, but people got so excited and interested in Open Space that conference organizers cleared a half-day chunk of the multi-day conference so the Racine students could Open Space for everyone.
</span> The conversations on Diversity were so energetic that they darned near swamped the rest of the day's schedule.<br><br><strong>The Agile Software Alliance and Extreme Programming Universe</strong>
ran one third of their annual, 300-person, international conference in
Open Space. The first morning was full of keynote speeches. A ten-minute pre-Opening announcement was made just before lunch and the full Opening ran parallel to other, scheduled workshops right after lunch. Open Space continued in parallel to peer-reviewed paper presentations and 'birds-of-a-feather' interest group meetings, for two more days. A number of people attending this conference
learned enough from watching the process to go out and facilitate their
own meetings in Open Space, including follow-ups to this first one. We gathered participant comments here: <a href="http://www.michaelherman.com/cgi/wiki.cgi?AgileXpParticipantComments">http://www.michaelherman.com/cgi/wiki.cgi?AgileXpParticipantComments
</a><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Corporate Conference...</span> A leading oilfield and information services firm hosted an internal
global leaders conference called InterChange. Within that traditional
conference featuring powerpoint presentations by 40 of their most senior
executives, they used Open Space
for a 6-hour strategy forum, broken into four different working sessions, sprinkled throughout the five-day program, for 120 managers from all around the world. They published 50-page
proceedings online internally and delivered a printed report for all
participants to discuss directly with their Chairman and CEO, in the closing session of the conference.<br><dl><dt><b>Annual Conference and Association Business Meeting </b>
</dt><dt><b>Wisconsin Medical Group Management Association</b> began with one day of pre-registration, committee meetings, and welcoming reception. The main day of the conference was a one-day Open Space, for association members,
exhibitors and others to address most important issues facing
the association, its member organizations, and professional individuals facing massive transformation in the healthcare industry. One hunderd participants designed a 20-session confernence
agenda, self-organized to address the issues raised, and produced
30 pages of written proceedings. The exhibitor display booths, usually relegated to a distant room, lined three walls of the main ballroom meeting space with the fourth one reserved for the Open Space agenda postings.
<font size="2"><i><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></i></font>The second day of the conference featured traditional, planned workshop topics in 45-minute timeslots. A less-than-exciting annual association business meeting happened over lunch in the middle of Open Space, which only heightened appreciation for the Openess of the rest of that day.
<font size="2"><i><span style="font-style: italic;">O</span>ne clinic administrator met with three
different consultants in one session, to work on a new building
plan. They accomplished together in two hours what they all agreed
was the equivalent of $30,000 and several months of consulting
work. </i></font>--Sheila Isakson and Michael Herman<br></dt></dl><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Zelle Nelson</b> <<a href="mailto:zelle@knowplacelikehome.com">
zelle@knowplacelikehome.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I've compiled and created stories of Open Space used in conjunction with conferences
</div><div>and speakers. Below is what I've compiled:</div><div><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">In Asheville, NC, a loose community that was coming together around the 2004 election and a desire for change gathered to hear a speech by Col. Robert Bowman. Out of a 3-hour, 70-person Open Space following the speech the Kindness Campaign -
<font color="#000099"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.thekindnesscampaign.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.thekindnesscampaign.org</a></span></font>
was created and has been sustained to the present. </div><div style="margin: 0px;">- Maureen McCarthy and Zelle Nelson</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="line-height: 1px;"><br>
</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Over the course of 2 ½ days in Denver 230 of the most innovative planners, developers, tool providers, civic leaders, artists and others from over 30 states and 3 countries were brought together to share learning, build networks and seed innovation in place. 3 keynotes inspired and provoked while a day of programmed sessions saw presentations and discussion facilitated by 60 leaders in the field. The second half of the conference was held in Open Space where lines stretched out the hall as participants proposed session topics, collaboratively built an agenda, and moderated over 60 intensive, small-group discussions, the results of which were captured as a living transcript using an online wiki.
</div><div style="margin: 0px;">- Chris Corrigan</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">200 highly-motivated professional financial planners joined for 4 days (2 days of presentations and training), 1 1/2 days in Open Space for their annual conference to discuss best practices in their own businesses. These professionals connected so deeply that in the closing circle on the last day there was not a single dry eye as they shared their experiences. The impact and flow of information accessed at this conference was unprecedented in the 15 year history of this particular conference.
</div><div style="margin: 0px;">- Maureen McCarthy and Zelle Nelson</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1px; min-height: 13px;"><span style="line-height: 1px;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;">The school district of Fairbanks, Alaska (covering an area the size of the entire state of Connecticut) held a 2-day, 250-person conference on 'Becoming a Peacemaker.' Half the participants were students in the middle and high schools (ages 13-18) and all participants had some experience with mediation and conflict resolution. The kids did exceptionally well in Open Space and one high school student led a series of four breakout sessions to create an entire suicide prevention program that for the middle school students. The statewide suicide prevention hotline was up and running within weeks of the conference.
</div><div style="margin: 0px;">- Michael Herman</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">In Kiev in October with 90 people from over 20 countries in Europe. It was at a 7 day conference, the first 4 days we setting the goals, looking at reality, and community building. The next 2 days were open space, and the final day was action planning continuing in an OST style.
</div><div style="margin: 0px;">- Bhavesh Patel</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">35 youth from the City of Vancouver gathered on a Friday, to meet one another, build community and reflect on their experience in a 2-month process designed to learn about, discuss and report violations of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. 55 people, including two Members of the Provincial Legislative Assembly and other representatives of government and organizations, gathered with the youth Saturday morning to view their performance piece that expressed a summary of what the project had learned and participate in a short and intense Open Space. Topics raised included what to do to help youth live independently and in safe conditions, stopping police harassment of Aboriginal and Latino youth by working with the police, and educating youth and adults on rights. To have provincial politicians sitting in the room with street youth, working together to move forward the learnings from the project was a powerful experience.
</div><div style="margin: 0px;">- Chris Corrigan</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">After three OST events with a group focused on Legal Education for Aboriginal Families in Vancouver, Canada with 45, 45, and 32 attending; with 11, 15, and 13 topics being discussed), there has been a shift in awareness because of the process. The community has discovered it's resources, has realized that it has itself to look to for the future. It has shared deep experiences. This little community has begun to lay down a foundation for itself. It has become something.
</div><div style="margin: 0px;">- Chris Corrigan</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">For 4 days 80 drilling and technology engineers from bp (British Petroleum) representing 15 different countries joined together to share best practices and to focus on the future of their company and industry. The schedule included various presentations followed by Open Space, for the first 3 days and ended on the 4th day with 9 different teams heading up 12 different initiatives to be carried out in the coming year.
</div><div style="margin: 0px;">- Maureen McCarthy and Zelle Nelson</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">In 2000, 300 business leaders from around the world were gathered together by Fast Company Magazine and met for 3 days of inspiring speeches and Open Space focused on building a community of professionals. Countless partnerships, connections and projects were launched and supported by this amazing conference.
</div><div style="margin: 0px;">- Maureen McCarthy and Zelle Nelson</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks to everyone who contributed their wonderful stories!</div><div><br></div><div><div> <span style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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