It was a great meeting. We were told that there the professors who were sitting with us for all 3 days (the topic was "Business / Education in 2010"), never stay more then an hour on any conference.

From an Open Space event in Siberia
facilitated by Dr. Elena Marchuk, Regional Development Center "Ceres"
Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia
marco@mail.nsk.ru

If you ever want to know if OS works in Japan, based on my experience, IT DOES. I have trained a Japanese colleague to be able to run Open Space meetings, and he already has two requests from our sales managers to run OS meetings with their teams on how to improve their sales volume.

About Open Space events in Japan
from facilitator Jimbo Clark
jimbo@ltl-j.com

While I was into my introduction one of the older bishops exclaimed, hey, I know this, its "baraza." An immediate discussion ensued in which several remembered that it had been a key element in their village culture. All noted that it is no longer used except perhaps in some very remote places. So open space is deeply imbedded in African Culture, at least in Kenya.

From an Open Space event in Kenya
facilitated by Michael M Pannwitz
mmpanne@snafu.de and www.michaelmpannwitz.de

For the first time in 15 years, instructors and teachers (top specialists in several fields) participated in planning meetings.

From an Open Space event in Bolivia
facilitated by Jaime Pedreros Fitzgerald
jpedrerosf@yahoo.com and rprcons@lycos.com

One of the "hoorays" from a recent Open Space is that a manager heard a lot of feedback about how the negative and repressive behavior of one of his supervisors (who had chosen not to participate) was affecting his employees. The manager has now found the courage to confront the supervisor with some new requirements about his job performance. We will see what behavior actually changes--but the issue is now out in the open, instead of driving everybody crazy behind the scenes.

From an Open Space event in the United States
facilitated by Joelle Everett Lyons
JLEShelton@aol.com

The take-up rate for implementing the priorities was 95%! At last count, the priorities are being realized in five cities and through one steering group on national policy.

From an Open Space event in Romania
facilitated by Kerry Napuk, Open Futures Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland
http://www.openfutures.com

Found the Open Space experience to be extremely valuable as I get to sit with other practitioners to discuss the problems of the community rather than just hear preaching. There's only one problem with Open Space … it has spoiled me. I'm going to be bored with any conference that doesn't have an Open Space track now.

From an Open Space event in the United States
facilitated by Michael Herman, Michael Herman Associates
http://www.globalchicago.net