You do not have to be a professional facilitator to convene an Open Space event. No certification is needed and you do not need to take anyone's special class to be able to lead your own Open Space. This is done intentionally to insure that the method and the practice are available to everyone.

Feel free to learn in any of the following ways:

Take a look around this website:

http://www.openingspace.net

Take a learning workshop:

Workshops are offered by

Opening Space (Lisa Heft)
http://www.openingspace.net

Harrison Owen and Colleagues (Ms. Heft is also a Harrison Owen Colleague)
http://www.openspaceworld.com/

Michael Herman
http://www.globalchicago.net

…and other facilitators around the world.

Workshop dates and locations are also listed on the calendar on this website

Read

Harrison Owen's book "Open Space Technology: A User's Guide" can teach you about the method and some of the theory behind it.

This book can be ordered through your local bookseller or any on-line bookseller such as Amazon.com. You can also order it and Harrison's other books (see below) through the Open Space Institute of the United States for a slight discount off the regular retail price -- and in doing so you will help the OSI(US)

• help people around the world without financial means to access learning and information regarding Open Space
• support the global Open Space learning community and
• help to gather and report Open Space stories and supporting research.

You can contact them at: http://www.openspaceworld.org/wiki/wiki/wiki.cgi?BooksAndVideos

You may also want to visit on this website Books About Open Space