<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><i>Hello, dear OSLIST colleagues: T</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><i>hank you for sharing this with your friends and colleagues - through email, tweets, other social networks, or face-to-face over a good beverage. May this message find you well and may your work be rich with learning and discovery - Lisa</i></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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">- - - -</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Imagine using a dialogue process to...</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></font></div>
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</ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">- enable soil, water, environmental and building scientists, engineers and researchers to share knowledge across disciplines and geographic regions in their passion for sustainability</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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">- help six governmental agencies and their Mozambique partners think about how to spend a billion dollars worth of HIV/AIDS funding in Mozambique </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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">- 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</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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">- involve every employee of a global Information Technology division in their company's strategic planning process - from the administrative assistant to the Chief Technology Officer</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Imagine a dialogue process you cannot break by someone standing up and going on and on, by someone leaving a discussion, by only one person arriving to a breakout session.</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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">But in which you can completely reduce productivity and innovation by helping participants during the process.</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Hear stories of...</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">- a client hosting a youth event who wants to stop youth convening their own amazing sessions</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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">- 3,000 people engaged in dialogue - resulting in breakthrough thinking, intimate conversation and a full record of proceedings</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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">- conflict resolution work in world conflict zones with participants facilitating their own discussions</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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">- 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</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">All of these are stories of Open Space. </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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Join us to learn about this dialogue process used around the world.</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">- - - -</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Open Space Learning Workshops 2013</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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">For people of all levels of experience</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">San Francisco California USA: April 3-5 -and- December 11-13</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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">St. Petersburg Florida USA: May 14-16</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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">(just before this year's World Open Space on Open Space in St. Petersburg)</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Other dates, cities and countries to be announced.</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Facilitated by Lisa Heft</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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">President Emerita, Open Space Institute US</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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Fellow, Columbia University's Center for International Conflict Resolution</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">- - - -</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">You may have heard of Open Space or participated in something called Open Space or 'an unconference' and wondered why it did not work - or whether it was really this complete and effective form.</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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">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.</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Join me for 2.5 days of mutual learning about preparing for, facilitating and supporting productivity and effectiveness in Open Space.</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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Together you will explore issues and opportunities in your own work with groups, experience an Open Space, and explore all the elements of pre-work that support the success of an Open Space event.</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Everything from developing a theme to exploring invitation and outreach, design, planning, materials, how 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.</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Pricing - as with all of my workshops - is flexible - custom tailored to what you as an individual can contribute and afford.</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">For more information on content, schedule and pricing overview and to register,</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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Contact me directly at</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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">lisaheft [at] openingspace [dot] net</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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><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'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">I look forward to learning with and from you, Lisa</font></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; 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