<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; 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-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Hello, dear colleagues -</span></font></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">(get a cup of tea as this is a l-o-n-g reply so I can excerpt something for you)</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">The fabulous Rachel Pfeffer asked about how to work with translation during Open Space - and I know you will share with her some great ideas - Larry, I enjoyed yours (and did you not have an experience with translation of the word...what was it, butterfly? in one Inuit community? Was that you?)</span></font></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">I have found when you supply a group with a lot of professional translators, those translators are often politely waved away from the discussion groups, because participants are handling their own 'whisper translation' in a lovely self-organizing way. But they are very helpful as professional translators often have a wider range of vocabulary words in mind to offer the nuances of context across culture. if you have capacity for this, it is useful to think about it in advance as part of your design. And I would recommend thinking of culture in addition to language to see if that informs any of your design for timing, food, visuals or other elements.</span></font></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">As many of you know, my passion is for access and inclusion, as well as for honoring capacity within each participant. So I think it is important to do a wonderful amount of work in advance to imagine and ask what individuals you are inviting will need, to feel truly welcome and able to participate like the others. I am excerpting here from an article in my "Open Space Idea Book" to share with you one particular experience in a multi-language Open Space environment. Also, to those of you who are newer on this list - you may also find some past messages about translation and multi-language environments - and other questions you may be thinking about - in the archives of the OSLIST, at h<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">ttp://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html . But don't ever let that stop you from asking right out here in the circle, as Rachel has done to invite this rich discussion.</span></span></font></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Lisa</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">PS: Participants who come to my Open Space Learning Workshops each get a copy of the book I mention above - it has not yet been published.</span></font></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">excerpt from</span></font></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Open Space Conference for Immigrant and Refugee Farmers</span></font> </span></font></font></b></span></div><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></font></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></font></p><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b>by Lisa Heft </b></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; min-height: 12px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></b></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; min-height: 12.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">In February 2007, two-hundred and sixty participants joined together for three days rich with learning, networking and knowledge-sharing at the National Immigrant and Refugee Farming Initiative’s (NIFI) historic Inaugural National Conference for Immigrant and Refugee Farmers. NIFI advocates for immigrant farmers and works to build awareness about the unique challenges immigrant farmers face, while increasing the visibility of their important contributions to our communities and agriculture. </span></font></font></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS; min-height: 11.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></font></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Participants speaking over 17 languages traveling from all across America to meet and share best practices, challenges, ideas and solutions for 3 days. One of the challenges was that many of the participants were monolingual non-English speakers. Languages included Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Hmong, Vietnamese, Somali Bantu (Maay Maay), Khmer, French, Navajo and others. Plus, not all of the participants could read written word, even in their home languages. So our design for both the Open Space and the other activities included an emphasis on multiple languages and modalities. </span></font></font></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS; min-height: 11.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></font></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">The pre-work was complicated, the design work was challenging, the event and site kept the core planning and facilitation team on its toes - and, as is usual - the success of the conference was due to an interdisciplinary, intercultural, skilled, flexible and energetic team. Registration was in two languages (Spanish and English - the two languages spoken by the most participants) and we knew that those who could not access written language, English, Spanish or computers would have an advocate working with them to register for the conference. So we asked all registrants to pre-identify what languages they spoke. We also asked who would like to spend some of their time helping us as notes-takers. This helped us identify what translation and other support we might need, what were the top languages spoken, and helped us ‘seed’ the room with enough people of diverse languages who were comfortable writing as notes-takers. </span></font></font></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS; min-height: 11.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></font></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Spanish, English and Hmong were our top three languages spoken - therefore NIFI collaborated with the Highlander Center in Tennessee, USA, who held a training in Maine, USA for a group of farmers serving as peer simultaneous translators for the conference. To that we added a few professional translators from Professional Translation Interpretation Services in North Carolina, USA. We had multi channel translation headsets for about 40 people, I believe. Then, as we had asked in advance about languages participants spoke, we pre-labeled every participant’s conference badge with color-coded dots indicating which languages they spoke - and we gave them extra dots to fill out and apply to their own badges to add additional languages they spoke. This would help is with ‘whisper translation’ - people being able to sit together to translate for each other. It was important that we support participant self-organization for translation as well as offer professional support. The professional and peer translators wore strips of color fabric coded to match the dots on everyone’s badges. If a translator spoke more than one language, she would have several strips of fabric - they wore these as neck ornaments, arm-bands - whatever fit their personal style. In this way, you could easily find someone to help you wherever you were in the conference. </span></font></font></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS; min-height: 11.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></font></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Then there was the challenge of how to design for a switch from the conference host and the facilitator speaking to the full group (welcome, explanation of the Open Space process and guidelines) -- to the voices of the participants themselves coming to the center and announcing their topics. So we started with those who needed it on headset (Spanish, Hmong and Maay Maay listeners - others sat next to friends and peer translators for whisper translation). Participants wishing to announce and host a session would walk up to one of two long tables (one in each of two aisles in the circle) and write their topic and name on the top half of an 11 x 17” piece of paper. A multi-lingual person sitting at that table would help them if they could not write and would also add another language translation onto that sign (ideally in one of our three top languages) in another color. The convenor would then walk to the center where they would stand at a microphone to announce their topic. After I had invited convenors to announce and post their sessions, I joined a group of translators seated near the microphone in the center. We had a cordless microphone to pass amongst ourselves. As this convenor would announce their session (in their own voice; their own language) we would pass the microphone to each other to translate immediately after them into the top 3 languages. Then the convenor posted their sign on the Agenda Wall and so continued the Agenda co-creation process. </span></font></font></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS; min-height: 11.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></font></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">After returning to headset (for some) for my explaining the schedule for the day, the group broke into discussion areas and conducted their conversations throughout the day using whisper, peer or professional translators as needed. </span></font></font></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS; min-height: 11.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></font></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Topics included a wide range of subjects in over 150 sessions during two days: beekeeping and pollination, how to apply for funding, engaging high school youth, organic pest control, growing mushrooms, abuse of immigrants, disaster response, organic corn for masa, organic crop development, growing ethnic crops, farming in an arid environment, building greenhouses out of found resources, and more. </span></font></font></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS; min-height: 11.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></font></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Notes-takers self-selected for all the groups, though we knew we had seeded this thought of note-</span></font></font></span><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; ">taking before the conference -- so those who were multi-lingual and able to write easily simply supported each group by notes-taking on paper notes-taker forms (with English and Spanish both on the form). Throughout the day they would transcribe their notes at the bank of computers in the Newsroom. If they had taken notes in a language besides English they would sit with a colleague to translate before entering them into the Book of Proceedings -- as our first edition of the Book would be in English and then we would have the book translated into several other languages next, thanks to the funders. Note that this was not an event in which we created the Book for viewing during the event - we finalized and distributed it post-event, translated it into other languages and also had photos and video for non-readers to review the event. Some groups also gathered post event to tell the stories of the event to each other and to their communities as a way of sharing the news with non-readers. </span></span></font></font></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Trebuchet MS; min-height: 11.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></font></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">And so it went for 2.5 days, with Evening News happening much like the openings each day - with some folks on headset and others sitting next to peers for whisper translation. For Closing Circle we allowed 2 hours - as in many of these cultures speakers use more words to frame their experiences and tell of their experiences through telling stories or returning to themes while they speak. </span></font></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">My many thanks to all of my colleagues and partners who helped during the pre-work and during the conference itself - a true team effort. This was one of the most exciting and fulfilling Open Space events I have ever had the honor to be part of. My hat is off to Rebecca Morgan, Tony Machacha, Kathy Findley, Alison Cohen, my other colleagues at NIFI and Heifer and to all the participants of this conference, including the wise, creative and dedicated farmers who are forging a new life -- and contributing to their communities’ health and wellness with their efforts. </span></font></font></span></div></font></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></font></font></span>Lisa Heft</font></b></span></font></div><div>Consultant, Facilitator, Educator</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Opening Space</font></b></span></font></div><div><a href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net">lisaheft@openingspace.net</a></div><div><a href="http://www.openingspace.net">www.openingspace.net</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></span></div></span><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Join me for the Open Space Learning Workshop</span></font></font></i><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">December 9-11, San Francisco</span></font></font></i></div></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div><br></div></div></body></html>*
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