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Open Space Stories From the Field

from 10 different countries, including a school in Haiti

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Circle of Change

Participatory Learning & Leadership Blog

Read Geneva Global's endorsement of Open Space in addressing child servitude issue in Haiti

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"Open For Business"

Excellent article on Open Space recently featured in

Meetings and Incentive Travel Magazine

 

"They agreed on one thing, summarized by former Randolph-Macon Woman's College President Bill Quillian as 'the power of one' to effect change."

Read newspaper article about recent Open Space in Lynchburg, VA

From it's conception, Beyond Borders has used an Open Space format for meetings and organizing.

Read about Beyond Borders' twelve year experiment.

"It's because of Open Space and Reflection Circles that we've been able to accomplish so much in such a short amount of time."

Eramithe Delva, Founder, Commission of Women's Victims
download Beyond Borders Spring 2006 newsletter to read more: "Victims of Rape Work Together for Healing and Change"

“John Engle’s approach to leadership was central to our Annual Retreat’s success. After years of dreading these two-day meetings, we now look forward to them.”
Dr. Steven Werlin, Dean of the College
Shimer College, Waukegan, Illinois

Read Shimer's story with Open Space

"Our relationships were obviously deepened, as we ventilated our thoughts and feelings on Conference related issues, including concerns that elude routine agendas"
Edgar Stoesz
Moderator, Atlantic Coast Conference
Mennonite Church
New Holland, Pennsylvania

Read about Atlantic Coast Conference retreat

"An experience like we have lived today in Open Space helps us to think better, to better understand others as well as ourselves. These are the type of activities we need to turn our ideas into concrete actions."
Edwidge Marcelin, 9th grade student,
The Louverture Cleary School in Santo, Haiti

Read about Louverture Cleary School using Open Space

What American Know-How Has To Learn

by John Engle and Steven Werlin about our work in Haiti

Open Space: Twin of Honor, Respect

interview with Pierre Richard Pierre of Productive Cooperatives in Haiti

Read people's stories using Open Space in education all around the world

“The human and intellectual openness of the Open Space promoted attentiveness and helped the two sides abandon the positions in which they were respectively entrenched. We discovered an effort to connect one with the other and to develop an awareness of the individual hardships perpetrated by the conflict.”
Peera Chodorov, Senior Advisor to former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres

Read about Palestinians and Jewish Israelis using Open Space

Download 2-page description of Open Space

Click here to go to a collectively created website called 'wiki,' used by our Haiti community of practioners for meeting notes, discussions, and projects

View "Circles of Change: a quiet revolution in Haiti" film about the spread of Open Space and Reflection Circles

                

    Photo: D. Morel

Open Space website: links, stories, books, videos, listserv

Touchstones Discussions website

John Engle's wiki pages - meeting notes, projects, links and discussions

John Engle Associates downloadable brochure

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