Open Space Learning Workshops - August and December, San Francisco
Lisa Heft
lisaheft at openingspace.net
Wed Jun 17 12:33:06 PDT 2009
Hello, dear colleagues - Several of you have asked me if I could open
up another workshop before December, and I am happy to say that I now
have an additional date, this August, in San Francisco. I invite you
to join me for this learning experience and thanks in advance for
sharing the word - through email, tweets, other social networks, or
face-to-face over a good beverage with your friends, clients and
colleagues. I look forward to seeing some of you there - Lisa
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(As I write this, I think back on some of the Open Space meetings I
have facilitated - for small groups to 2000+person conferences, in
Mozambique, Spain, Thailand and other countries, for tasks including
birthing a global network to save the oceans, figuring out how to
spend a billion dollars of HIV funding, giving teen parents a voice in
policy, a global Information Technology department engaging in
strategic planning, and an international conference of doctors, nurses
and other health advocates sharing best practices, challenges and
solutions for saving lives. Open Space invites productive,
interactive, interdisciplinary and inter-cultural thinking, idea
generation, resource-sharing, a sense of community, and renewed energy
for the work ahead...)
Join us for the
Open Space Learning Workshops
For people of all levels of experience
August 5-7, 2009
December 9-11, 2009
San Francisco, California USA
Facilitated by Lisa Heft
Fellow, Columbia University's Center for International Conflict
Resolution
Adjunct Faculty, Sonoma State University Organization Development
Program
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Open Space is a dialogic method where one facilitator can convene from
ten to 2000+ participants for dynamic, participant-driven dialogue.
OS can be used for bringing together an entire company to highlight
emergent issues and opportunities before strategic planning,
generating ideas for product or program design, sharing resources and
best practices, understanding each other across cultures, sharing
knowledge across disciplines, conflict transformation, exchanging
thought and experience about complex situations and engaging groups
from small to large in seeing a full-systems perspective for their
opportunities or issues. The facilitator's role in OS is very
different than for other dialogic methods - participants facilitate
their own discussions, documentation and noting of linkages and common
threads.
Join me for 2.5 days of mutual exploration as we share learning in and
about Open Space. Together you will discuss and create a theme for an
Open Space meeting, explore the issues and opportunities in your own
work, reflect on how behavior change theory can inform our roles as
facilitators, experience an Open Space, and really delve into all
those elements of pre-work that are essential to the success of an
Open Space event.
Everything from developing a theme to exploring invitation and
outreach, design, planning, materials, variations, adaptations for
cultural differences (for example in a non-readers environment or in a
situation with rich power dynamics), how the site, food and other
elements impact or enhance an event, how to include action planning as
needed, 'what-ifs', 'when not to's', documentation and more.
Pricing - as always - is flexible - custom tailored to what you as an
individual can contribute and afford.
For more information on content, schedule and pricing overview and to
register,
Contact me directly at
lisaheft at openingspace.net
I look forward to learning with and from you,
Lisa
Lisa Heft
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
Opening Space
lisaheft at openingspace.net
www.openingspace.net
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