Palestinians used the real deep meaning of Peace all over the training, they brought it up in nearly every small discussion group they created, peace within themselves, peace at work, peace with their children and later on passed to the causes of non inner peace: sexual frustration, challenges of education today, ways to raise their children to become more open and keen and so on. I personally never witnessed such openness within my fellow Palestinians and more amazingly between men and women. Until that minute I wasn't sure about the power of the Open Space spirit and its immediate influence on people. Today … they email each other on a regular basis -- they also have set up an "OST Palestine" Yahoo group…

From an Open Space event in Ramallah
facilitated by Carol Daniel kasbari
carol@crosswinds.net

It might interest you to know that Pragati Foundation, an India based NGO, and the Foundation for Human and Economic Development of the USA successfully used Open Space Technology for an Indo Pakistan People to People Dialogue for Peace and Prosperity…This was the first time in the history of the Indian subcontinent that people from Pakistan(including former adversary generals), Kashmir (Hindus and Moslems), other parts of India and USA sat down together and came to a shared understanding…Encouraged by the miraculous success of the first conference…[we are]…now organizing another conference only for the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Again we are using Open Space Technology. I am convinced that OST can go a long way in restoring peace and prosperity to Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian subcontinent and the rest of the world.

From an Open Space event in India
facilitated by Arun Wakhlu and The Pragati Foundation
pragatilearning@vsnl.net

After an Open Space to help people in a small company decide how they could build on their strengths, the client said to me, "It was wonderful, and I want to tell my friends--but I can't describe it!"

From an Open Space event in the United States
facilitated by Douglas D. Germann, Sr., Footprints In the Wind
Doug@FootprintsintheWind.com and http://www.footprintsinthewind.com

The 2 days open space that followed were a success, a miracle in the words of the CEO and he added that 3 years ago they received a thick report from "___" (a famous international strategic company) that cost $1.5milion, and they could implement a little. Now we produced something much better in the cost of 1 page of their report, and it seems that we can implement it all.

From an Open Space event in Israel
facilitated by Avner Haramati and Tova Averbuch, Oganim consulting network
avnerh@inter.net.il and averbuch@post.tau.ac.il

This is the first many of our people have met like their ancestors did.

From an Open Space event in Canada
facilitated by Chris Corrigan
http://www.chriscorrigan.com