[OSList] Open Space Learning Workshop - December 12-14, San Francisco USA

[Lisa Heft]

Hello, dear OSLIST colleagues - and a warm hello to those of you who  
joined me at the recent London workshop!
It's happening again... remember some of these stories?

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

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Imagine using a dialogue process to...

- enable soil, water, environmental and building scientists, engineers  
and researchers to share knowledge across disciplines and geographic  
regions in their passion for sustainability
- 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 hosting a youth event who wants to stop youth convening  
their own amazing sessions
- only one participant showing up - or 3,000 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.

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Open Space Learning Workshop
For people of all levels of experience

December 12-14, 2012 - San Francisco, California, USA

Facilitated by Lisa Heft
President Emerita, Open Space Institute US
Fellow, Columbia University's Center for International Conflict  
Resolution
Adjunct Faculty, Sonoma State University Organization Development  
Program

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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

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

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