[OSList] Open Space Learning Workshops 2012 - join us!

Jeff Aitken r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 12:30:03 PDT 2012


Hi all, i posted Lisa's announcement on the Open Space Technology page
on Facebook (and also in The Official Lisa Heft Fanclub) if you want
to share from there.

Jeff
in San Francisco, awaiting our local OSonOS ; )

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Suzanne Daigle <sdaigle4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lisa, beautifully written, so enticing with the examples.  I wish I could go
> to each as I imagine the co-creative contributions of many and the wonderful
> learning of each.    Is there somewhere where this same language appears on
> a website with a link other than the OS list here?  It would make it easier
> to tweet and facebook.
>
> Suzanne
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Lisa Heft <lisaheft at openingspace.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello, my OSLIST colleagues -
>> Thank you in advance for sharing the word about these upcoming workshops
>> with your friends and colleagues - through email, tweets, other social
>> networks, or face-to-face over a good beverage.
>> May this message find you well and may your work be rich with learning and
>> discovery... - Lisa
>>
>> - - - -
>>
>> Imagine using a dialogue process to...
>>
>> - help six governmental agencies and their Mozambique partners share
>> thoughts on how to spend a billion dollars worth of HIV/AIDS funding in
>> Mozambique over the next five years
>> - engage licensing executives in technology to explore their concerns and
>> hopes for a constantly changing industry where both knowledge
>> ownership and open source / Creative Commons exist
>> - invite hundreds of tobacco control advocates, researchers and policy
>> makers to share their conflicting points of view (is the end goal safe
>> tobacco? elimination of tobacco?) without having to change each other or
>> agree
>> - involve every employee of a global Information Technology division in
>> their company's strategic planning process - from the administrative
>> assistants to the Chief Technology Officer
>> - design a pavilion at the Olympics, a new way of using the internet, or
>> an airplane door
>>
>>
>> Imagine a dialogue process you cannot break by someone standing up and
>> going on and on, by someone leaving or returning to a discussion, by only
>> one person sitting in a breakout session.
>> But in which you can completely reduce productivity and innovation by
>> helping participants during the process.
>>
>> Hear stories of...
>>
>> - a client leading a youth event wanting to stop youth convening their own
>> amazing sessions
>> - only one participant showing up - or 2500 people engaged in dialogue -
>> both events resulting in breakthrough thinking, intimate conversation and a
>> full record of proceedings
>> - conflict resolution work in world conflict zones with participants
>> facilitating their own discussions
>> - holding space when all the participants leave (will they return?), when
>> the police are approaching to shut the event down, or in the middle of a war
>>
>>
>> All of these are stories of Open Space.
>> Join us to learn about this dialogue process used around the world.
>>
>> - - - -
>>
>> Open Space Learning Workshop
>> For people of all levels of experience
>>
>> May 16-18, 2012 - San Francisco, California USA
>> October 8-9-10, 2012 - London, United Kingdom (a pre-conference workshop
>> for the World Open Space on Open Space 2012 in London)
>> December 12-14, 2012 - San Francisco, California, USA
>> ...and 2012 dates to be announced - (en español) - Colombia, South
>> America
>>
>> Facilitated by Lisa Heft
>> Fellow, Columbia University's Center for International Conflict Resolution
>> Adjunct Faculty, Sonoma State University Organization Development Program
>>
>>
>> - - - -
>>
>> You may have heard of Open Space or participated in something called Open
>> Space or 'an unconference' and wondered why it did not work - or whether it
>> was really this complete and effective form.
>> Or you may have experienced something that sparked your interest as you
>> watched a group self-organize in a highly productive process - and wondered
>> if it was this thing called Open Space.
>>
>> Join me for 2.5 days of mutual learning about preparing for, facilitating
>> and supporting productivity and effectiveness in Open Space.
>> Together you will explore issues and opportunities in your own work with
>> groups, experience an Open Space, and really delve into all those elements
>> of pre-work that are essential to the success of an Open Space event.
>>
>> Everything from developing a theme to exploring invitation and outreach,
>> design, planning, materials, how the site, food and other elements impact or
>> enhance an Open Space event, why / why not to hybridize this particular
>> method, how to include action planning if appropriate, 'what-ifs', 'when not
>> to's', participant-driven forms of documentation, ideas for the
>> sustainability of ideas, relationships and actions post-event, and more.
>>
>> Pricing - as with all of my workshops - 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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