Open Space workshop March 9-11 in Costa Mesa (Southern California)

Tue Feb 1 13:45:14 PST 2005

[Dear OSLISTers - If you or others you know may be able to come to this
Southern California workshop I would love to have you join me. Feel free
to pass this email along through your various colleagues, networks and
communities, and I thank you for doing so.  And if anyone has contacts
at Los Angeles-area universities, communities or businesses where I may
send this announcement, thank you for replying to me directly - I
appreciate it.  -- Lisa).

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Do you convene people for staff meetings, community gatherings, planning
sessions, conferences or committees?

Learn a method for bringing innovation, high productivity, rich
communication and collaboration into your work together.

Open Space Learning Workshop
Costa Mesa (Southern California) USA - March 9-11, 2005
for people of all experience levels -- continuing credits are offered
for this course
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Facilitated by Lisa Heft
International consultant, facilitator and educator
and member of the global Open Space learning community
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Open Space Technology * is a method for convening a meeting, retreat or
conference that generates communication, collaboration, innovation, and
other solutions to challenges and transitions. Participants co-create an
agenda and lead their own discussion and action sessions in a dynamic
way that invites interdisciplinary and inter-group thinking.  When your
organization or community has a complex problem, you are completely out
of ideas regarding a solution, you have a diversity of people that you
can bring to the process, and the time for resolving this situation was
yesterday --- This is a great time for Open Space.  Participants emerge
from the process invigorated, refreshed, and proud of their individual
and collective accomplishments.

The use of Open Space Technology has been effective since the mid-1980's
in a diversity of settings, cultures and countries. The method has been
used by communities working towards peace, chemists designing new
polymers, tribal and governmental leaders planning land use, community
advocates and local government designing literacy programs, conference
organizers holding action conferences, architects designing pavilions
for the Olympics, an entire town having a simultaneous discussion town
meeting, and neighbors helping each other rebuild and heal after times
of war.

This tool can be utilized by groups of 5 to over 2000 and the dynamics
and the results are always the same:  input from stakeholders at all
levels, new ways of thinking and working, large amounts of work done
rapidly, bringing perceived competitors together on issues and projects,
organizational flexibility, interdepartmental or intercommunity
teamwork, a sense of accomplishment and a feeling of passion and energy
for the challenges ahead.

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The workshops bring together those who are new to the method and those
who have experienced it -- an opportunity to share your learning and
understanding and to prepare yourselves or further your learning for
facilitating your own Open Space.  Experience an Open Space and discuss
how to design, prepare hosts or clients, coordinate and facilitate the
meeting and help organizations or communities support the actions and
momentum that come out of the meeting.

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The facilitator: Lisa Heft is an international consultant, facilitator
and Master Level interactive learning specialist serving businesses,
organizations and communities since 1974. She presents, consults,
facilitates conferences, retreats and meetings, evaluates curriculum and
trains trainers and has done so in Brazil, South Africa, Switzerland,
Canada, Zambia, Germany, Australia, Spain, Denmark, Thailand and the
USA.  She has also written papers and training materials used by Open
Space facilitators around the world and translated into several
languages.

Clients include the U.S. Department of Labor / Department of
Transportation, the International AIDS Conferences, GlaxoSmithKline,
U.S. Scholar-Athlete Games, FioCruz (Brazil), and the President's
Commission on National and Community Service. Ms. Heft has also worked
with business leaders, international conflict resolution experts, faith
communities, young people, health educators, scientists, prisoners,
researchers, street activists, union and management and government
representatives.  She is Board Vice President, Open Space Institute
(USA) a member of the International Association of Facilitators and the
Ethics Practitioners Association of Canada.

For more information and a registration form contact workshop
facilitator Lisa Heft at lisaheft at openingspace.net
<mailto:lisaheft at pacbell.net>

* Read an article describing the method at:

<http://www.openingspace.net/papers_facilitation_OSCollaborationCommunic
ation.shtml>
http://www.openingspace.net/papers_facilitation_OSCollaborationCommunica
tion.shtml

* See a photo-story illustrating Open Space at:

<http://www.openingspace.net/gallery/agora.cgi?cart_id=7547433.2297*cv4C
71&xm=on&product=Anatomy_of_an_Open_Space_Event>
http://www.openingspace.net/gallery/agora.cgi?cart_id=7547433.2297*cv4C7
1&xm=on&product=Anatomy_of_an_Open_Space_Event

[...and if you wish to bring this workshop to your own community or
organization elsewhere in the world, contact Lisa Heft]

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I look forward to hearing from you,

L i s a   H e f t
Consultant, facilitator, educator
O p e n i n g  S p a c e
Berkeley, California   USA
lisaheft at openingspace.net
http://www.openingspace.net <http://www.openingspace.net/>

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