[OSList] August 24-26. OST Learning Workshop. San Diego, Calif. USA

[Raffi Aftandelian]

Friends,

This may be a little short notice: 

I'm delighted to offer a three day OST learning workshop here in San Diego. 

thanks!
Raffi
 
Open
Space Technology 
Learning
Workshop

Session
One of the Genuine
Contact Program™

August
24-26 2012
San
Diego, Calif.
Do
you work
with groups, organizations, or communities?  Do you want to engage
people to create wildly successful meetings which produce action,
change, and transformation? Do you want to get to the real issues
quickly and effectively? Do you want to explore a process that is
built to address the complex and challenging issues of our times?  
Open Space Technology
supports human enterprises to grow and thrive in our increasingly
chaotic and changing world.  Please join us in learning more about
this revolutionary process.
What
is Open Space Technology (OST)?
OST is a very simple,
effective, holistic, and low-cost way of conducting meetings,
conferences, forums, and other learning processes for groups of 10 to
1000 or more in size, from 4 hours to several days in length.
Over
the past 20 years, OST has been used in 124 countries, hundreds of
thousands of times, and for many different purposes such as strategic
planning, new product development, reconciliation, and as a highly
productive alternative to training.
OST
helpsorganizations and communities rediscover their strengths, especially
in highly complex, critical, and ostensibly hopeless situations.
This
technology is a practical means of working with the resources,
knowledge, and wisdom which already exists in a group.
Time
and again participants remark that,
when compared with other types of meetings or conferences, greater
results are achieved in less time and in an atmosphere of high
learning and high play.


Who
is this workshop for?
This
learning workshop is for community activists, facilitators,  leaders,
and other nonprofit, business,  and government professionals who have
a passionate interest in creating and sustaining organizations,
workplaces, and communities that workand inspire!


What
will you learn in this workshop?
You
will develop your own understanding of Open Space Technology,
including its form and essence. The
workshop will also cover preparatory work with a sponsor prior to an
OST meeting and post-meeting follow-up. We will also cover personal
preparation as a facilitator and the role of OST in helping
organizations achieve and sustain organizational health and balance.


Cost: Gift economy basis. Please read this(http://tinyurl.com/gifteconomy-ws)
to determine what feels like the right amount to contribute towards
participation in this workshop.

To
register or for more information, contact Raffi at
raffi_1970 at yahoo.com or 858 736 4611.

Workshop
leadership
Raffi
Aftandelian(San Diego, USA) is a
facilitator, consultant, and trainer specializing in holistic group
work approaches. With extensive international experience as a
facilitator, he has worked with prison inmates, psychologists,
corporate trainers, civil servants, refugees, and many other groups.
As an active member of the international community of OST
facilitators since 2001, he co-hosted the 14th annual international
Open Space on Open Space practitioner conference (Moscow, 2006). He
has a BA in Soviet Studies from UC-Berkeley and speaks Russian,
French, and Farsi.He is an authorized trainer with the Genuine Contact Program™.

His
clients have included Occupy San Diego, the City of Moscow, Center
for Peacemaking and Community Development (UK/Russia), Agency for
Rehabilitation and Development (Russia), Eurasian cellular provider
Beeline, and the Netherlands Economic Institute.  





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