These are some good (publicly shareable) examples of the extraordinary things people can do in Open Space. Several of these are 100+ pages long, written by 100’s of people, in two days. Each one will have short summaries of what happened. All are good references for writing invitations and planning event documentation.
Documents
- Catalyzing Exposome Research Series [pdf] – National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 8-week, 400-participant, 7-event open space series, ALL ONLINE, to advance formation of new field and catalyze research action (2022)
- Illinois Food Security Summit [pdf] – statewide summit convened by Chicago Community Trust (2001)
- The Future of Education in Peoria [pdf] – citywide summit, see also PeoriaSchoolsStory (2002)
- USAID Indonesia – Country Development Cooperative Strategy [pdf] – first of a series of regional partnership summits to craft national strategy (2012)
WORKSHEETS
- Conveners’ Notes – editable MS-Word page for *taking* notes during sessions
- Document Template – editable MS-Word template for *typing* session notes after sessions
Other Formats
- VOSonOS: Virtual Open Space on Open Space [pdf] – the first global remote Open Space practice conference, celebrating 30 years of Open Space practice around the world (2015), hosted at vosonos.qiqochat.com
- The Giving Conference (wiki) – website from philanthropy-finance-community-technology conference (2004)
- Ship-to-Shore Science Education – used GoogleSites for summit proceedings and follow-up project planning (2013-14).
- Albuquerque citywide one-day summit, captured in time-lapse video, gives an excellent view of open space in action. They captured notes and photos, from three rounds and dozens of individual breakout sessions, in a blog.