Practice of Peace / Chicago / June 7-9

averbuch averbuch at post.tau.ac.il
Tue Apr 13 03:45:47 PDT 2004


Michael,
This is a peace of art, a melody to my ears, I will sad it to people
just to share the tone, use as medicine
You are a master of invitation
Whishing you best of success with POP Chicago in June
With admiration
Tova

Tova Averbuch             טובה אורבוך
34 Rabinovitz St.   רחוב רבינוביץ 34
Holon            58672               חולון
Israel
               972-3-5523476
         averbuch at post.tau.ac.il

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Michael Herman
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Subject: Practice of Peace / Chicago / June 7-9

Dear OSLIST friends,

Please share this around as is easy and feels good... and come!

many thanks,  michaelh

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*Please join us for The Practice of Peace... an intimate and advanced
Professional Life Development program on June 7-9, 2004 in Chicago (Oak
Park, IL) with Harrison Owen and Michael Herman. *

*Visit  http://www.globalchicago.net/peace for registration and
details.*

The old is falling apart, a new world's emerging.  Though nobody knows
the moment.  Seems everything's in motion, but where are we going?
Clearly we could use some Space.  And Now.  Open Space... to gather and
talk, to work and learn, to solve and resolve our most important
questions and issues related to:

* Promoting excellence and learning
* Engaging people in transformative shifts
* Generating new revenues and assuring profit
* Enhancing innovation and developing new products
* Building a collaborative workplace or network
* Focusing on assets and opportunities over problems
* Inspiring and inviting people to do best work
* Opening communication and connecting movements
* Strengthening leadership and effectiveness
* Healthy growth in organizations and communities
* Getting things done -- in spite of everything!

If you work with people, manage projects, convene meetings, lead
changes, organize conferences, or teach essential skills... there is
something in this for you.  Please join us!  And please do share it with
colleagues who would want to know that this is happening.

I have spent a good chunk of the last few years teaching Open Space
Technology and helping to form local practitioner groups around the
world.  In late 2002, Melbourne Australia, I met up with my friend and
mentor Harrison Owen and asked him to come back to Chicago.  So I am
pleased to announce that...

Harrison Owen will return to Chicago (Oak Park) -- June 7-9, 2004 -- for
a unique and powerful three days dedicated to the Practice of Peace and
the process of Opening Space within ourselves as leaders, our
organizations and communities, our environment and our world.

*Visit  http://www.globalchicago.net/peace for details and
registration.  Early Registration (discounted) and Scholarship Requests
by May 7th.*

Harrison Owen is the initiator and lead storyteller of the Open Space
Technology  worldwide practice community.  He's worked around the world
in all kinds of organizations, from Fortune 500 to African villages.  In
recent years, through his work with Israeli and Palestinian peace
activists, together in Open Space, he has come to understand Open Space
as The Practice of Peace.  His experience and this advanced program is
immediately relevent for every leader and every kind of human
organization.

Genuine Peace and Resilient Effectiveness can never be attained with the
elimination of chaos, confusion and conflict. In fact all three are
essential to the continuance of life. Without chaos, there is no open
space for future possibilities. Without confusion, old ideas and ways of
thinking stick around well beyond their time. And without conflict,
ideas and approaches fail to reach their full potential, never having
been sharpened in the intense conversation of critical assessment. Peace
of the sort that brings wholeness, harmony and health to our lives only
happens when chaos, confusion and conflict are included and transcended.

The Practice of Peace is the conscious application of the power of
self-organization to the healing of our fragmented world and scattering
work. It has nothing to do with "designing self-organizing systems,"
which is an obvious contradiction in terms. The Practice of Peace is the
creation and sustenance of the essential preconditions of
self-organization and collective effectiveness. And the core of The
Practice of Peace is Open Space Technology.

*Visit  http://www.globalchicago.net/peace for more about Practice and
Peace.  Early Registration (discounted) and Scholarship Requests by May
7th.*

The Practice of Peace is for all of us and every organization -- chaos,
confusion and conflict show up everywhere!  This is an invitation to
lead and learn to surf through them -- an advanced opportunity to deepen
your own capacity to...

* Understand the essential role of chaos in Open Space and in the life
of an organization.

* Enable the creative power of emerging new order by letting go of the
old (order).

* Facilitate and support the organization as it engages the process of
grief at work (Griefwork).

* Celebrate and sustain the new Spirit of organizations and networks.

* Perceive the critical opportunities and empathize with the pain in the
moments of transformation.

* Understand the function of Leadership as being different than
positional power.

* Maximize your own power of leadership at the junction of passion and
responsibility.

* Engage your own role as Peacemaker, including the critical and
difficult role of Silent Witness.

*Please Join Us!  Visit  http://www.globalchicago.net/peace for details
and registration.  Early Registration (discounted) and First Priority
Scholarship Requests should be received by May 7th.*

Please mailto:mherman at globalchicago.net with any questions!

--

Michael Herman
Michael Herman Associates
300 West North Avenue #1105
Chicago IL 60610 USA
(312) 280-7838

http://www.michaelherman.com - consulting & publications
http://www.globalchicago.net - laboratory & playground
http://www.openspaceworld.org - worldwide open space

...inviting organization into movement

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