[OSList] The Power of Pre-Work - August 8-10, San Francisco

[Lisa Heft]

Hi, all -
Back on this theme of Pre-Work -

Hege: I would love to share learning with you - though you will be in  
good hands with the fabulous team of Eva and Thomas. And I of course  
would love to be in your workshops one day - Eva, Thomas and Chris.
We all have so much to learn from each other.

I travel around the world with my facilitation and workshops - I go  
wherever I am hosted and also have a few per year in my home region of  
the San Francisco Bay Area. So you never know - we could one day share  
learning about pre-work in or nearby to Norway. Or Australia. Or ...  
there is the delightful mystery of what may happen in the future, eh?

Chris - how wonderful that you are teaching OST and World Cafe at the  
University. They are lucky to have you. And what a great workshop  
design!
With what you were saying and what Michael was asking - It sounds like  
some of you teach (or are planning to teach) pre-work through engaging  
folks in Open Space around that topic. Maybe others have other  
approaches to this particular workshop design. And Chris, I am so glad  
you are working with folks on invitation - really truly one of the  
major jobs for a successful dialogue event.

About my own workshop content and approach: My "The Power of Pre-Work"  
workshop does not take place in an Open Space format - and it is not  
exclusively regarding the method of Open Space.
It is an interactive 2.5-day workshop with a series of activities,  
conversations and silent reflection - along with text, spoken word,  
graphic and other forms of learning exchange, exploration, puzzle- 
solving and reflection.
It is for any kind of face-to-face dialogue approach - not specific to  
method.

It shares lessons learned - and our existing pooled knowledge - about...

- invitation text, strategy and the nature of invitation
- registration as two-way communication and a source of shared resources
- ideas for working around challenging rooms and room-sets
- values and actions regarding access and inclusion
- how food and beverage type, timing and location support or break  
into the flow of dialogue
- diverse forms of documentation design for dialogue events
- thoughts about uncovering all the details in our communication with  
clients to inform how we might design our event or what dialogue  
method we might choose
- some of the many questions we can ask a client to inform this
- reflection on how we use both mind and intuition to inform ourselves  
in the pre-work phase

...and more.

Bhav and Sherri - I would have to think long and hard about how to use  
existing technology - in a way that I feel I can truly support well -  
that also reflects my passion for doing interactive, experiential,  
face-to-face, participant-centered, activity-based learning design. So  
who knows - perhaps that will be in the future. Meanwhile - I travel ;o)

And Sherri - I will add you to my list of folks who would like to take  
this workshop whenever time and place align. I teach this workshop in  
the San Francisco area about once a year or wherever hosted - though I  
do Open Space Learning Workshops a several times a year. If you can  
afford the travel costs - my workshops are always a pay-the-most-you- 
can-given-your-own-individual-or-organizational-ability and for the  
San Francisco workshops there is always a lovely hostel nearby for  
super low-cost housing, if you need it.

As you know - I am passionate. Passionate about pre-work. And access.  
And inclusion. And oh... a few more things.... ;o)

I will see some of you at the WOSonOS in London this October. I will  
be offering the Open Space Learning Workshop in the days just before -  
and I am delighted to see some of my dear OS friends and some new ones  
as well registering for that workshop. We will have a tiny taste about  
pre-work but mostly focus on things very specific to Open Space in  
particular.  I look forward to seeing some of you there (you can  
register via the wosonos2012.com website - see 'What's Happening  
When / Pre-Event Open Space Learning Workshop'.

Or you never know. I may pop up right next door to where you live...

Cheers from a sunny afternoon in California,
Lisa


Lisa Heft
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
President Emerita, Open Space Institute US
Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution
Opening Space
lisaheft at openingspace.net
www.openingspace.net

  
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