I’m pleased to share the following articles, stories, and resources for the practice of OpenSpaceTechnology (OST) and InvitingLeadership. Please contact me with any questions or comments about these materials, including the CopyRight request regarding reprinting and distribution. Thank you!
Introductions to Open Space Technology
• Open Space Executive Summary [pdf] or [html] – good, short, first handout (to clients) for introducing OST (1999)
• Working in Open Space: A Guided Tour [.pdf] or [html] – good overview of OST process, options, outcomes (1998)
• Opening Space For New Life At Work [.pdf] or [html] – reprinted from ”The Works” magazine (2001)
Books and Guides for Practice
• Open Space Technology: An Inviting Guide [.pdf] – how-to for clients and facilitators (2006)
• Open Space Technology: Practice Resources for Inviting Organization [pdf] or [html] – training/practice manual (2003)
• Open Space Technology: A User’s NON-Guide [.pdf] or [html] – an OST sutra, in 37 voices from all around the world (2002)
• Inviting Organization: Evolution is Now and Open Space [.pdf] or [html] – earliest introduction to ”invitation at work” (2001)
Selected Papers, Stories and Interviews
• Youth Action Racine Wisconsin [.pdf] or [html] – a decade of results sprung from 4 hours of OS (1998)
• The Inviting Organization Emerges [.pdf] or [html] (newer version) – the heart of the Inviting Organization story (1999)
• Open Space Technology: Inviting Leadership Practice [.pdf] – interview by Shilpa Jain of Shikshantar, Udaipur, India (2006)
• Strategic Conversation: A Case Story [.pdf] – analysis of OST practice in a large global business (1998)
• Grandma’s Lullaby [.pdf] or [html] – personal story of leadership and transformation (1998)
Favorite Examples of Conference Documentation
• The Future of Education in Peoria [pdf] – citywide summit, see also PeoriaSchoolsStory (2002)
• Illinois Food Security Summit [pdf] – statewide summit convened by Chicago Community Trust (2001)
• Entrance to Aspen [pdf] – community summit on reconfiguring the highway into Aspen, Colorado (2007)
• RecentChangesCamp (wiki) – software and community development conference (2006 to present), see also OregonianNewspaper and open-frame conference video by Geri Weis-Corbley
• The Giving Conference (wiki) – website from philanthropy-finance-community-technology conference (2004)
• Leave NO Child INSIDE – Central Ohio Collaborative (blog) – website sprung from summit proceedings (2007 to present)