Harrison Owen, ‘Martini inventor’ of the Open Space Technology approach, will be with us in the U.K. at the 20th international WOSonOS2012 gathering of the world’s Open Space facilitators in London 11 – 14 October 2012 (www.wosonos2012.com). As will be Lisa Heft, top training master of Open Space facilitation, who will running a pre-event facilitator learning workshop on in London on 9 – 11 October for those less familiar with Open Space (http://ow.ly/diMLA).

Organised on a voluntary basis by the open space community, this will be the first time WOSonOS is held in the UK. The main co-host, Improbable, are also running a 3 month open space road show throughout the UK theatre community from June to October (see http://ow.ly/dRfWW), leading to the big event mid-October. Open Space has been applied for over 30 years in business, government and all kinds of communities and this will be a unique opportunity to meet all the players operating in the various sectors, and many more (see who is coming at http://ow.ly/diNGv):

View the multi-lingual personal invitations from all the open spacers joining from around the world at: http://invites.wosonos2012.com/. And if you’re not quite sure what Open Space (OST) is, well, maybe it’s not for you, but feel free to explore further anyway at http://ow.ly/dRpFO. And if you are interested but have never facilitated an open space workshop before please do participate in the pre-learning workshop http://ow.ly/diMLA – all who have attended the workshop are welcome to be at WOSonOS2012 itself too.

WOSONOS 2012 promises to be the best yet. In the UK it was Jubilee Year, and Olympics Year and now it will be Open Space Year. Don’t miss this fantastic gathering full of surprises – whoever comes will be the right people! Download a flyer at: http://ow.ly/diMBU