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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=EmailStyle21><i><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-style:italic'>Hello dear colleagues - I realize I had mentioned this
workshop in a few conversations but had not shared with you an actual workshop
announcement. Thank you for sharing this information with your various
colleagues, networks and communities. - Lisa</span></font></i></span></p>
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9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>________________________________</span></font></p>
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<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=EmailStyle19><b><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
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<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:
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color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'> </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=EmailStyle19><b><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>December 19-21, 2007</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=EmailStyle19><b><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>San Francisco, California USA</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=EmailStyle19><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:windowtext'>for people of all experience levels -- continuing credits are
offered for this course</span></font></span><span class=EmailStyle19><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:
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:windowtext'>Sliding scale enables people of all income levels to attend
this workshop.</span></font></span></p>
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color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
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<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>
<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 an interactive, participant-driven 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. They
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 corporations inviting productivity and teamwork during
times of organizational change, 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, Information
Technology departments doing strategic planning, 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;line-height:8.0pt'><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"'>One facilitator can use
this process to convene 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;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><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;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><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.
Experience an Open Space and learn all about design, preparation, planning,
logistics, themes, invitation, ‘what-ifs’, ‘when not to’s’,
variations and more.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=EmailStyle19><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:windowtext'> </span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=EmailStyle19><b><font size=3
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>For more information about content and
pricing - and to register - 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=EmailStyle19><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'><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=EmailStyle19><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:windowtext'>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=EmailStyle19><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:windowtext'><a
href="http://www.openingspace.net/papers_facilitation_OSCollaborationCommunication.shtml">http://www.openingspace.net/papers_facilitation_OSCollaborationCommunication.shtml</a></span></font></span></p>
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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'><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=EmailStyle19><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:windowtext'>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=EmailStyle19><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:windowtext'><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>
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style='font-size:8.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=EmailStyle19><font size=2
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9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=EmailStyle19><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>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:18.05pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
9.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=EmailStyle19><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-left:9.0pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Lisa Heft</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>___________________________</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><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><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><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
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>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><a href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net"><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>lisaheft@openingspace.net</span></font></a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><a href="http://www.openingspace.net"><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>www.openingspace.net</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
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