As the WOSonOS is not a training but rather an invitation to explore OST on deeper levels, we invite all of you who have not yet experienced facilitating and using this method to take the Open Space Learning Workshop, another Open Space workshop, or have some actual facilitation experience before attending this conference.

For further reading:

• Harrison Owen's book, Open Space Technology: A User's Guide (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco 1997)—and additional books and videos—can be purchased on the Open Space World website.
  (You may also find used copies of the book at Half.com or other discount sites.)
• Opening Space for Collaboration and Communication with Open Space Technology, an article by Lisa Heft describing Open Space.
• Anatomy of an Open Space Event, a photo-story illustrating the process of Open Space.
• Harrison Owen's website.
• Open Space World, the site of the worldwide Open Space community.
• International Glossary of Open Space Terms and Phrases—click on each phrase in English for definitions or on any language for translations.
• Open Space World Map.