[OSList] The Power of Pre-Work: August 24-26, San Francisco USA

[Lisa Heft]

Hello, dear colleagues -

Thank you again for your warm words and thoughts regarding the passing  
of my mother.

As life moves forward...(and she always loved the work that we do...)
I invite you to join me for the Open Space Learning Workshops in  
Argentina in just a few weeks.
Plus: I am giving another "The Power of Pre-Work" workshop this August  
- in San Francisco.
Thank you 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

- - - -

(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 national conference which introduced  
dialogue to help participants name diverse and conflicting points of  
view without having to come to agreement, a retreat for a global  
information technology department generating ideas for their corporate  
strategic plan, 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 - as every one of these elements affected  
or supported the 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.)

- - - -

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

August 24-26, 2011

San Francisco, California USA

Facilitated by Lisa Heft

- - - -

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  
face-to-face 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
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



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20110629/b80e9e86/attachment-0007.htm>