Open Space Learning Workshops -- June and December, San Francisco

Tue Mar 27 13:38:32 PDT 2007

Hello dear colleagues, and thank you in advance for sharing this information
with your various colleagues, networks and communities.

Those who may be interested in this might include educators, businesspeople,
activists, community leaders, peace-builders, students, coaches,
consultants, and those who work in organizational development, the creation
of conferences, human resources, management, inter-group relations,
mediation, civic engagement and more.  Sliding scale enables people of all
income levels to attend these events.

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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 Workshops

June 20-22   -and-   December 19-21, 2007

San Francisco, California, USA

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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In Open Space, participants co-create their own agenda around a central
theme of strategic importance; and they facilitate their own discussions --
the facilitator's role is quite different than for other methods.
Experience an Open Space and learn how to convene your own Open Space event,
including pre-work, design, logistics, 'what-ifs' and 'when-not-to's'.  

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, corporations
doing strategic planning, and neighbors helping each other rebuild and heal
after times of war.  

This tool can be utilized by groups of 20 to 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.  In this workshop we will share our
learning and thoughts about systems and chaos theory, grief and
transformation cycles, and how organizations and individuals embrace, or
resist, change.  You will also experience an Open Space and learn (and share
from your own experiences) how to design the event, 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.
Each participant will receive a copy of "the Open Space Idea Book" for
continued learning.

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_OSCollaborationCommunication
.shtml

*See a graphic story illustrating Open Space at:

http://www.openingspace.net/gallery/agora.cgi?cart_id=7547433.2297*cv4C71
<http://www.openingspace.net/gallery/agora.cgi?cart_id=7547433.2297*cv4C71&x
m=on&product=Anatomy_of_an_Open_Space_Event>
&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,

Lisa

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L i s a   H e f t

Consultant, Facilitator, Educator

O p e n i n g  S p a c e

 <mailto:lisaheft at openingspace.net> lisaheft at openingspace.net

 <http://www.openingspace.net> www.openingspace.net 

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