<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi, all - </div><div>Back on this theme of Pre-Work -</div><div><br></div><div>Hege: I would love to share learning with you - though you will be in good hands with the fabulous team of Eva and Thomas. And I of course would love to be in your workshops one day - Eva, Thomas and Chris.</div><div>We all have so much to learn from each other.</div><div><br></div><div>I travel around the world with my facilitation and workshops - I go wherever I am hosted and also have a few per year in my home region of the San Francisco Bay Area. So you never know - we could one day share learning about pre-work in or nearby to Norway. Or Australia. Or ... there is the delightful mystery of what may happen in the future, eh?</div><div><br></div><div>Chris - how wonderful that you are teaching OST and World Cafe at the University. They are lucky to have you. And what a great workshop design!</div><div>With what you were saying and what Michael was asking - It sounds like some of you teach (or are planning to teach) pre-work through engaging folks in Open Space around that topic. Maybe others have other approaches to this particular workshop design. And Chris, I am so glad you are working with folks on invitation - really truly one of the major jobs for a successful dialogue event.</div><div><br></div><div>About my own workshop content and approach: My "The Power of Pre-Work" workshop does not take place in an Open Space format - and it is not exclusively regarding the method of Open Space.</div><div>It is an interactive 2.5-day workshop with a series of activities, conversations and silent reflection - along with text, spoken word, graphic and other forms of learning exchange, exploration, puzzle-solving and reflection.</div><div>It is for any kind of face-to-face dialogue approach - not specific to method.</div><div><br></div><div>It shares lessons learned - and our existing pooled knowledge - about...</div><div><br></div><div>- invitation text, strategy and the nature of invitation</div><div>- registration as two-way communication and a source of shared resources</div><div>- ideas for working around challenging rooms and room-sets</div><div>- values and actions regarding access and inclusion</div><div>- how food and beverage type, timing and location support or break into the flow of dialogue</div><div>- diverse forms of documentation design for dialogue events</div><div>- thoughts about uncovering all the details in our communication with clients to inform how we might design our event or what dialogue method we might choose</div><div>- some of the many questions we can ask a client to inform this</div><div>- reflection on how we use both mind and intuition to inform ourselves in the pre-work phase</div><div><br></div><div>...and more.</div><div><br></div><div>Bhav and Sherri - I would have to think long and hard about how to use existing technology - in a way that I feel I can truly support well - that also reflects my passion for doing interactive, experiential, face-to-face, participant-centered, activity-based learning design. So who knows - perhaps that will be in the future. Meanwhile - I travel ;o)</div><div><br></div><div>And Sherri - I will add you to my list of folks who would like to take this workshop whenever time and place align. I teach this workshop in the San Francisco area about once a year or wherever hosted - though I do Open Space Learning Workshops a several times a year. If you can afford the travel costs - my workshops are always a pay-the-most-you-can-given-your-own-individual-or-organizational-ability and for the San Francisco workshops there is always a lovely hostel nearby for super low-cost housing, if you need it.</div><div><br></div><div>As you know - I am passionate. Passionate about pre-work. And access. And inclusion. And oh... a few more things.... ;o)</div><div><br></div><div>I will see some of you at the WOSonOS in London this October. I will be offering the Open Space Learning Workshop in the days just before - and I am delighted to see some of my dear OS friends and some new ones as well registering for that workshop. We will have a tiny taste about pre-work but mostly focus on things very specific to Open Space in particular. I look forward to seeing some of you there (you can register via the wosonos2012.com website - see 'What's Happening When / Pre-Event Open Space Learning Workshop'. </div><div><br></div><div>Or you never know. 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