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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