[OSList] Open Space Learning Workshop - May 14-16, St. Petersburg, Florida USA

[Lisa Heft]

Hello, dear colleagues -

I will see some of you fabulous folks at the World Open Space on Open  
Space next month - and I am looking forward to it!
And here is some Late-Breaking News: Our WOSonOS hosts in Florida have  
just completed and posted the registration information for....

The Open Space Learning Workshop
May 14-16
St. Petersburg, Florida USA

This workshop is being offered before the World Open Space on Open  
Space (WOSonOS) in May.

You can look at this particular workshop date either way:

1) As a stand-alone workshop to give you a thorough behind-the-scenes  
understanding of Open Space Technology - covering everything from pre- 
work to the why's and when-not-to's, power dynamics and diverse uses  
for this particular method.
May 14-16

2) As a two-part learning process: First the workshop, then a deep  
dive into several days of Open Space at the World Open Space on Open  
Space (WOSonOS) conference that follows, to further integrate your  
learning:
May 16-19

NOTE that there is pre-reading for this workshop: Harrison Owen's  
book, "Open Space Technology: A User's Guide". Even if you have done  
Open Space or something like it; even if you have read other sources,  
including other readings by Harrison. This is available as an  
electronic download for quickest access, if you need it.

For more information about the workshop content, and to register, see http://wosonos2013.crowdvine.com/pages/pre_conference_workshop 
  .
And for more information about the WOSonOS, click on 'Home' on that  
same page.
Separate registration, separate events.

Join us for mutual learning and exploration!
Thanks for sharing this information amongst your friends and  
communities.
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...

- carry a conversation across a nation with twenty live events where  
each participant can access all the notes from all the many diverse  
discussions
- 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 me to learn about this dialogue process used around the world.

I look forward to learning with and from you,

Lisa




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