The Power of Pre-Work - August 18-20, San Francisco

Sat Sep 18 04:51:46 PDT 2010

My Fabulous Lisa, 

It's pity that I didn't have a time & budget for that precious learning
occassion. :-( ;;;

Yes, there can be no doubt that the Pre-Work is absolutely prerequisite to
maximizing power of self organization before, during, and after any OS
event.

I would very much appreciate if there a way for us to access the collective
wisdom on this subject from the learning event.

Thank you!

Allreciatively,

S

Spark
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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lisa Heft
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:28 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: The Power of Pre-Work - August 18-20, San Francisco

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. I look forward to seeing some of you
there - Lisa

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(As I write this, I reflect upon some of the diverse dialogue events I have
facilitated and the elements of pre-work that led to their success -
including a multi-language, multi-culture national immigrant and refugee
farmer conference, a series of 2000+ participant youth ministry conferences,
a national conference which introduced dialogue to help participants name
diverse and conflicting points of view in their field, a meeting of
international health workers sharing best practices across country and
culture, a retreat for a global information technology department generating
ideas for their corporate strategic plan, environmental advocates birthing a
new global organization, HIV/AIDS educators developing mission, vision and a
shared values statement for their non-profit organization, six international
agencies collaborating on how to spend a billion dollar budget - and other
examples of high productivity, creativity and partnership and meaningful
outcomes in meetings based on dialogue methods and processes.  What
supported the success of these events?  Not my magic jewel-like words and
insights - instead, a thorough analysis to select the appropriate tool, plus
ongoing conversations with the client teams about everything from issues and
objectives to site, food, documentation, invitation and outreach, follow-up
and more - with every one of these elements affecting or supporting
dialogue.  To me, the pre-work is essential - and yet, everyone tells me
they do not get this sort of training in their academic programs or other
facilitation training. So I decided to host a workshop to share best
practices and lessons learned about the pre-work.)

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Join us - register now - for
The Power of Pre-Work
For people of all levels of experience

August 18-20, 2010

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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Facilitating staff meetings, community gatherings, planning sessions,
conferences and committees:

It is not just about showing up and doing some sort of magic facilitation on
the day of the event.

Learn how thoughtful, thorough pre-work can support the success of a
dialogue event.

For people of all levels of experience - although you will be able to retain
more of your learning about pre-work if you already do some facilitation
work

Whether you facilitate using Open Space Technology, the World Cafe, Future
Search, or other tools, processes and methods with and without names -
everything in the full system of your event affects and impacts everything
else. Share what you have learned and learn more about all of the elements
of Pre-Work. It is all part of an ecology of interrelated elements.

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

I look forward to learning with and from you,

Lisa

Lisa Heft
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
Opening Space
 <mailto:lisaheft at openingspace.net> lisaheft at openingspace.net
 <http://www.openingspace.net/> www.openingspace.net

Ask me about the The Power of Pre-Work workshop for facilitators -August
18-20, 2010 - San Francisco
and the Open Space Learning Workshops - October 15-18, 2010 - Medellin,
Colombia and December 15-17, 2010 - San Francisco

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