Open Space Learning Workshop - December 9-11, San Francisco

[Lisa Heft]

Hello, dear colleagues - 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... Lisa

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(As I write this, I am working at a 1500-person conference that has an  
Open Space day for participants to share experiences, knowledge,  
resources, challenges, ideas and mutual support.  I am also working  
with another client who will use OS with community leaders, young  
people and county services representatives to generate ideas about  
support services for young people and the creation of a youth center.   
I just returned from the World Open Space on Open Space in Taiwan,  
where people from many countries explored such topics as how OS is  
being used to help communities rebuild after the typhoons, how to  
include women and children's voices and needs by using tools of  
dialogue in a patriarchal / hierarchal culture, and how our different  
cultures inform how we participate in discussions.  This gives you a  
sense of how Open Space can be used to invite productive, interactive,  
interdisciplinary and inter-cultural thinking, idea generation,  
resource-sharing, a sense of community, and renewed energy for an  
organization or community)

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Join us - register now - for the
Open Space Learning Workshop
For people of all levels of experience

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
Board Member, Open Space Institute US

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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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