[OSList] Open Space Learning Workshops - April, May and December, USA
Lisa Heft
lisaheft at openingspace.net
Tue Jan 22 16:17:03 PST 2013
Hello, dear OSLIST colleagues: Thank you for sharing this 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...
carry a conversation across a nation in twenty live events
- 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 think
about how to spend a billion dollars worth of HIV/AIDS funding in
Mozambique
- 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 assistant to the Chief Technology Officer
Imagine a dialogue process you cannot break by someone standing up and
going on and on, by someone leaving a discussion, by only one person
arriving to 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
- 3,000 people engaged in dialogue - 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 Workshops 2013
For people of all levels of experience
San Francisco California USA: April 3-5 -and- December 11-13
St. Petersburg Florida USA: May 14-16
(just before this year's World Open Space on Open Space in St.
Petersburg)
Other dates, cities and countries to be announced.
Facilitated by Lisa Heft
President Emerita, Open Space Institute US
Fellow, Columbia University's Center for International Conflict
Resolution
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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 explore all the elements of
pre-work that support the success of an Open Space event.
Everything from developing a theme to exploring invitation and
outreach, design, planning, materials, how 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 [dot] net
I look forward to learning with and from you, Lisa
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