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dear colleagues, and thank you in advance for sharing this information with
your various colleagues, networks and communities.</span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle24><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Folks
who may be interested in this might include educators, businesspeople, activists,
community leaders, peace-builders, students, coaches, consultants, and those
who work in organizational development, the creation of conferences, human
resources, management, inter-group relations, mediation, civic engagement and
more. Sliding scale enables people of all income levels to attend this
event.</span></font></span></p>
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9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle23><font size=1
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font-style:italic'> </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>________________________________</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle21><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
<h1 align=left style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:9.35pt;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:left'><b><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Do you convene people for
staff meetings, community gatherings, planning sessions, conferences or
committees?</span></font></b></h1>
<h1 align=left style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:9.35pt;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:left'><b><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal'>Learn a
method for bringing innovation, high productivity, rich communication and
collaboration into your work together.</span></font></b></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=4 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold'>Open Space
Learning Workshop</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle22><b><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold'>San Francisco, California, USA – December 6-8, 2006</span></font></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle22><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>for
people of all experience levels -- continuing credits are offered for this
course </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>________________________________</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle21><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold'>Facilitated
by Lisa Heft</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=1 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>International consultant,
facilitator and educator</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=1 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>and member of the global
Open Space learning community</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>________________________________</span></font></p>
<h5 style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:9.35pt;
margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><i><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:normal'> </span></font></i></b></h5>
<p style='margin-right:.25in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:9.35pt;margin-bottom:
.0001pt'><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:windowtext'>In Open Space, participants
co-create their own agenda around a central theme of strategic importance; and
they facilitate their own discussions -- the facilitator’s role is quite
different than for other methods. Experience an Open Space and learn how
to convene your own Open Space event, including pre-work, design, logistics,
‘what-ifs’ and ‘when-not-to’s’. </span></font></p>
<h5 style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:9.35pt;
margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><i><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:normal'> </span></font></i></b></h5>
<h5 style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:9.35pt;
margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><i><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-style:normal'>Open
Space Technology </span></font></i></b><font size=2 color=red
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:red;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'>*</span></font><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'> is a method for convening a meeting,
retreat or conference that generates communication, collaboration, innovation, and
other solutions to challenges and transitions. Participants co-create an agenda
and lead their own discussion and action sessions in a dynamic way that invites
interdisciplinary and inter-group thinking. When your organization or
community has a complex problem, you are completely out of ideas regarding a
solution, you have a diversity of people that you can bring to the process, and
the time for resolving this situation was yesterday --- This is a great time
for Open Space. Participants emerge from the process invigorated,
refreshed, and proud of their individual and collective accomplishments. </span></font></h5>
<h5 style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:9.35pt;
margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><i><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal'> </span></font></i></b></h5>
<h5 style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:9.35pt;
margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><i><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal'>The use of Open Space Technology has been effective since
the mid-1980’s in a diversity of settings, cultures and countries. The
method has been used by communities working towards peace, chemists designing
new polymers, tribal and governmental leaders planning land use, community
advocates and local government designing literacy programs, conference
organizers holding action conferences, architects designing pavilions for the
Olympics, an entire town having a simultaneous discussion town meeting, and
neighbors helping each other rebuild and heal after times of war. </span></font></i></b></h5>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:.25in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>This tool can be utilized
by groups of 5 to over 2000 and the dynamics and the results are always the
same: input from stakeholders at all levels, new ways of thinking and
working, large amounts of work done rapidly, bringing perceived competitors
together on issues and projects, organizational flexibility, interdepartmental
or intercommunity teamwork, a sense of accomplishment and a feeling of passion
and energy for the challenges ahead.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=1 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>________________________________</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><b><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold'>The workshops</span></font></b><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>
bring together those who are new to the method and those who have experienced
it -- an opportunity to share your learning and understanding and to prepare
yourselves or further your learning for facilitating your own Open Space.
In this workshop we will share our learning and thoughts about systems and
chaos theory, grief and transformation cycles, and how organizations and
individuals embrace, or resist, change. You will also experience an Open
Space and learn (and share from your own experiences) how to design the event,
prepare hosts or clients, coordinate and facilitate the meeting and help
organizations or communities support the actions and momentum that come out of
the meeting. Each participant will receive a copy of “<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>the Open Space Idea Book</span></i>” for
continued learning.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle22><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle22><b><font size=3
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold'>For more information and a registration form contact workshop
facilitator Lisa Heft at <a href="mailto:lisaheft@pacbell.net">lisaheft@openingspace.net</a></span></font></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle22><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><font size=2 color=red face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:red;font-style:italic'>*</span></font></i><span
class=emailstyle22><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Read an article describing
the method at:</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle22><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><a
href="http://www.openingspace.net/papers_facilitation_OSCollaborationCommunication.shtml">http://www.openingspace.net/papers_facilitation_OSCollaborationCommunication.shtml</a></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle22><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><font size=2 color=red face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:red;font-style:italic'>*</span></font></i><span
class=emailstyle22><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>See a graphic story
illustrating Open Space at:</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle22><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><a
href="http://www.openingspace.net/gallery/agora.cgi?cart_id=7547433.2297*cv4C71&xm=on&product=Anatomy_of_an_Open_Space_Event">http://www.openingspace.net/gallery/agora.cgi?cart_id=7547433.2297*cv4C71&xm=on&product=Anatomy_of_an_Open_Space_Event</a>
</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle22><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=1 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle21><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>[...and
if you wish to bring this workshop to your own community or organization
elsewhere in the world, contact Lisa Heft]</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle21><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>________________________________</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle22><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle22><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>I
look forward to hearing from you,</span></font></span></p>
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9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle22><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:windowtext'> </span></font></span></p>
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9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=emailstyle22><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></span></p>
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face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'>___________________________</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:9.35pt'><b><font size=2 color=blue
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>L i s a H e f t</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:9.35pt'><font size=2 color=blue
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:blue'>Consultant, Facilitator, Educator</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:9.35pt'><font size=2 color=blue
face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=ES-MX style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:blue'>O p e n i n g S p a c e</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><a
href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net"><font color=black><span lang=ES-MX
style='color:black'>lisaheft@openingspace.net</span></font></a></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><a
href="http://www.openingspace.net"><font color=black><span lang=ES-MX
style='color:black'>www.openingspace.net</span></font></a></span></font><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>
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