open space technology as an event or as an intervention--learn more with us in our Advanced workshops

[Toni Petrinovich]

Birgitt, good for you and congratulations!   It IS all ways a deLight and a
Spirit-filled moment of decision when we realize that our work has become so
broad that it is time to take another step up the ladder and begin the
process of creating new Open Space.

Blessings to you,
Toni

----- Original Message -----
From: "Birgitt Williams" <birgitt at mindspring.com>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 1:57 PM
Subject: open space technology as an event or as an intervention--learn more
with us in our Advanced workshops


> Hello to each of you interested in Open Space Technology,
> In our recent workshop in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, a participant said
> that he learned so much about Working With Open Space Technology that he
> didn't know before. He identified this by saying "before this course, I
> worked with Open Space Technology as an event. You have assisted us to
learn
> how to work with it as an intervention". This man was so pleased with his
> discovery and filled with many intentions of what he would do in his
federal
> government department to faciliate their development as a conscious Open
> Space Organization. He said that they were already part way there, but the
> insights and frameworks he now had to work from were critical pieces for
him
> to achieve his vision of what was possible for optimum ways of working
> together.
>
> My vision was to develop a workshop series that taught a "vehicle" for
> development as a conscious Open Space Organization. My vision included
> having others achieve authorization to offer training programs in this
> series (the Genuine Contact program). To support the work of the growing
> number of trainers (to whom I offer great gratitude), I am pulling back on
> the number of public workshops I am leading in the world to make room for
> the other trainers to teach. This also honors the organic nature of any
such
> work to ensure it does not stagnate. I will now lead the Advanced Workshop
> only 4 times a year. The remaining dates and locations for 2002 are March
> 25-28 and Sept 11-14 right here in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA and
November
> 26-29 near Frankfurt, Germany. Information is available at
> www.genuinecontact.com
>
> Judi Richardson in Halifax will offer this program in June. Thomas Herrman
> and Eiwor Backelund will offer this program in Sweden in August. Others
will
> be scheduled soon.
>
> For me, I am not surprised at the success of this workshop and the results
> from it. Participants gain deep insights about a different way of BEING
and
> a different way of WORKING. I also know that they simply remember what
they
> truly already know. I simply have found a way to facilitate them in
> accessing their inner wisdom. When something resonates so well with deep
> inner truth, it usually does well in the world.
>
> And whenever there is a vacuum, such as is left be a decreased workshop
> series for the public, something fills it. This situation is no exception.
> My schedule is becoming full with requests for workshops inside of
> organizations for teams who in turn will facilate extensively using Whole
> Person Process Faciliation or Open Space Technology, leading to daily work
> as conscious Open Space Organizations if they pursue this.  My hopes are
> high that those of us who are working in this way will mentor an ever
> increasing number of organizations to achieve health and balance.My
> gratitude to Spirit and to all who participate is high.
>
> If you are interested in becoming an authorized trainer in the Genuine
> Contact program, please contact me soon to ensure that you have taken the
> prerequisite workshops in preparation for attending the "train the
trainer"
> in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA Sept 21st to 27th, 2002. We offer the
"train
> the trainer" at our home location, annually.
>
> I offer gratitude to each of you for the work you do in this world,
> Birgitt Williams
> www.genuinecontact.com
> Mentoring for Organizational Effectiveness.
> "I believe that Spirit matters and people are precious. I know that
> organizations incorporating these values have exciting, tangible results."
> Birgitt Williams
>
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