[OSList] Open Space Learning Workshop - December 11-13, San Francisco USA

[Lisa Heft]

Hello, dear colleagues - 

Thank you in advance for sharing the news 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 and productive conversation and co-learning
- 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 11-13, 2013 - 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

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