I found a document from September 2000: Notes from a day of Open Space facilitated by John D. Adams, for the Sonoma State University MA program in Org Development. (Our OST and dialog friend Rosa Zubizarreta was there too.) One part of the day was a short history offered by John, who had been present at the creation of the OT (Organization Transformation) field in the early 80s! John, Harrison, Linda (whose last name I've lost) and FOUR other people were present at the first OT symposium in 1983 at the University of New Hampshire. The US Army officer Frank Burns had earlier convened 400 people with Task Force Delta at Ford Ord, also known as "Fort OD". And Harrison was there. (Burns also created the Meta Network, one of the first public online communities, which hosted our first version of the OSLIST.) And as we know, it was the Third OT symposium in Monterey, 1985, which Harrison had promised to organize in advance, and while sitting on his patio in Maryland "at the bottom of two martinis", he had the lightning flash epiphany of a design that came to be known as Open Space, and later OST! John also said: "Questions open the space. Having the answer closes the space." "Earth has no passengers - only crew." (A quote from Kurt Hahn, who founded Outward Bound.) warmly Jeff