Lisa, beautifully written, so enticing with the examples. I wish I could go to each as I imagine the co-creative contributions of many and the wonderful learning of each. Is there somewhere where this same language appears on a website with a link other than the OS list here? It would make it easier to tweet and facebook.<br>
<br>Suzanne<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Lisa Heft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net">lisaheft@openingspace.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"><i>Hello, my OSLIST colleagues - </i></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size:12px"><i>Thank you in advance for sharing the word about these upcoming workshops with your friends and colleagues - through email, tweets, other social networks, or face-to-face over a good beverage. </i></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"><i>May this message find you well and may your work be rich with learning and discovery... - Lisa</i></span></font></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"><font size="1"><i></i><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'">
<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">- - - -</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="1"><br>
</font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Imagine using a dialogue process to...</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="1"><br></font></div><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:40px;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">- 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</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">- engage licensing executives in technology to explore their concerns and hopes for a constantly changing industry where both knowledge ownership <u>and</u> open source / Creative Commons exist</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">- 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</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">- 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</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">- design a pavilion at the Olympics, a new way of using the internet, or an airplane door</span></font></div>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">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.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">But in which you can completely reduce productivity and innovation by helping participants during the process.</span></font></div>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Hear stories of...</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'">
<font size="1"><br></font></div><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:40px;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">- a client leading a youth event wanting to stop youth convening their own amazing sessions</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">- only one participant showing up - or 2500 people engaged in dialogue - both events resulting in breakthrough thinking, intimate conversation and a full record of proceedings</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">- conflict resolution work in world conflict zones with participants facilitating their own discussions</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">- 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</span></font></div>
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<font size="3">All of these are stories of Open Space. </font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3">Join us to learn about this dialogue process used around the world.</font></div>
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<font size="1"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">- - - -</span></font></div>
<div><font size="1"><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size:14px"><b><font color="#FF0082">Open Space Learning Workshop</font></b></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><i><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">For people of all levels of experience</span></font></i></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"><br></div><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:40px;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font color="#FF0082"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:13px"><b><font color="#0A31FF">May 16-18, 2012 </font></b></span></font></span></font></font>- <span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(255,0,130)"><b>San Francisco, California USA</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,130);font-size:12px"><b><font color="#0A31FF">October 8-9-10, 2012</font></b></span> - <font color="#ff0082" size="3"><b>London, United Kingdom</b></font> (<i>a pre-conference workshop for the World Open Space on Open Space 2012 in London</i>) </div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(255,0,130)"><b><font color="#0A31FF">December 12-14, 2012</font></b></span> - <font color="#ff0082" size="3"><b>San Francisco, California, USA</b></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3">...and 2012 dates to be announced - </font><b style="font-size:12px">(</b><span style="font-size:12px"><i>en español) -<font color="#ff0082"> </font></i></span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,130)"><font size="3"><b>Colombia, South America</b></font></span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,130);font-size:medium"> </span></div>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Facilitated by Lisa Heft</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'">
<span style="font-size:12px">Fellow, Columbia University's Center for International Conflict Resolution</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'">
<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Adjunct Faculty, Sonoma State University Organization Development Program</span></font></div></blockquote><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'">
<font face="'Lucida Grande'" size="1"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'">- - - -</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">
<br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size:12px">You may have heard of Open Space or participated in something called Open Space or 'an unconference' and wondered why it did <u>not</u> work - or whether it was really this complete and effective form.</span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">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.</span></font></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"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Join me for 2.5 days of mutual learning about preparing for, facilitating and supporting productivity and effectiveness in Open Space.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">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.</span></font></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"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">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.</span></font></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"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Pricing - as with all of my workshops - is flexible - custom tailored to what you as an individual can contribute and afford.</span></font></div>
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<b><font color="#FF0082"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">For more information on content, schedule and pricing overview and to register,</span></font></font></b></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'">
<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">Contact me directly at</span></font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'">
<span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net" target="_blank"><font color="#2600FF"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px"><b>lisaheft@openingspace.net</b></span></font></font></a></span></div>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12px">I look forward to learning with and from you,</span></font></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">
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