[OSList] OS Training Why-Process-Where -- Paris Montréal Bruxelles and...

[Diane Gibeault]

Dear friends,
 
Deborah Maarek from Brussels and I will be facilitating OST learning
events in Europe and Canada in 2012 – see dates and details below. We also want
to offer this succinct contribution to some topics raised about
OST training and learning processes. 
 
Why consider Open Space training? Why
not just read the book?
 
Solid preparation work with the client group strengthens conditions for a
more meaningful Open Space experience and increases chances of stronger results
and more systematic follow-ups after the event to implement ideas and actions. 
 
Reflection on the principles and applications of this participatory
approach deepens the understanding and allows to effectively, put in practice
in ones personal and work life this more open way of being and doing. 
 
Facilitators will experience, reflect and actually practice in a safe
setting this type of facilitation that is so very different from regular
facilitation. They will be better anchored when offering this innovative method.
 
Leaders and managers learn with examples and exchanges, how to be and do
differently to attain better results. 
 
Change agents, organizers and anyone aiming for more fruitful collective
work will be more confident in proposing and supporting the planning for this
unique way of meeting used to consult, accelerate projects and change, learn, plan,
develop policies or products, solidify teams and for any other reason to meet that
really matters to a group. 
 
New ideas, practical tips and tools can help to organize and facilitate
small and large groups (from 5 to over 2000), particularly in challenging
organizations and settings. 
 
Training processof these
in-house or public workshops proposed below include:
Reading the H.Owen's book, experiencing an OS meeting, discussing the participants’
learning, key elements of the process and the guiding principles, reflecting and
working in OS, hearing of experiences and stories of events and of
organizations who function in Open Space, receiving tried and proven tools and
documentation to assist in proposing and preparing OS events, practicing
elements of an OS event, and finally, access to free post-training coaching and
partnering opportunities. See the web site below for more information.
 
Thank you for sharing the information about these learning OST
opportunities with your colleagues, friends and networks. 
 
We hope to meet you on those paths that can help the world move forward
with greater openness.
Diane Gibeault
 
 
Why consider Open Space
Technology, commonly known as Open Space? 
Open Space is
a unique and powerful approach to more collaborative and creative group work,
the development of leadership in every one of us, and so much more. See the web
sites below for more information. 
Diane Gibeault trained with Harrison Owen, OST
author in 1996 and has since facilitated many OST training workshops and other OS
events in Canada, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Brazil. 
Déborah Maarek,a cofounder of Awareness Consulting
(Belgium – France) trained in OST has been facilitating Open Space events for a
few years in Europe and has also facilitated OST training workshops in association
with Diane. 

Open Space Learning 
Individual Coaching on the Open Space
Approach – English and French
-        For those first Open Space events you facilitate or organize
-        To improve how you work with people and with groups
-        To better plan an event that presents particular challenges
OST Training 
-        In House Training Workshops 
Open Space
training within your organization while addressing in depth, an issue of
interest to your group - English and
French
-       Public
Training Workshops
English Workshop in Canada –
a date will be set later in the year.
French Workshops in Montreal,
Paris and Brussels: 
Open Space Training level I - in French - 2012
-        March 7-8-9, Paris - Diane Gibeault - Reduced rates to
January 31
-        May 29-30-31, Montreal - Diane Gibeault, Déborah
Maarek - Reduced rates to April 5 
-        June 13-14-15, Brussels  - Déborah Maarek –
Reduced rates to March 30
      
Open Space
Training level II - in French – 2012
 
Deepen your knowledge of OST and discover new
elements such as the recently more comprehensive and simpler method developed
to identify collective priorities.
  
-        March 12, Paris - Diane Gibeault, Déborah Maarek
- Reduced rates to January 31    
-        June 1- Montreal (OST 2) - Diane Gibeault -
Reduced rates until April 5 
 
Information on Open Space, Workshops and
Other Resources 
Montreal workshops:at http://www.dianegibeault.com see “Open
Space”,  “Training” 
Paris - Brussels workshops: at http://www.awarenessconsulting.com  see "Agenda”, “Forum Ouvert"
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