Nice to learn that you are sustaining these Lisa. Reminds of my unforgettable Open Space experience in
San Francisco. Cheers. Franklin ________________________________ From: Lisa Heft <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 6:26:21 AM Subject: [OSLIST] Open Space Learning Workshop - December 15-17, San Francisco Hello, my dear OSLIST colleagues - and thank you in advance for sharing the word about these upcoming workshops with anyone you feel may be interested - through email, tweets, other social networks, or face-to-face over a good beverage with your friends, clients and colleagues. Do join me if you are able to - it is always wonderful to share our diverse learning in a workshop such as this for people of all levels of experience. This text below includes a general description for those of your colleagues who may not yet have heard about this method, as well. May this message find you well and may your work be rich with learning and discovery... - Lisa - - - - Join us - register now - for the Open Space Learning Workshop For people of all levels of experience December 15-17, 2010 San Francisco, California USA Facilitated by Lisa Heft Fellow, Columbia University's Center for International Conflict Resolution Adjunct Faculty, Sonoma State University Organization Development Program - - - - Open Space is a dialogic method where one facilitator can convene from ten to 2000+ participants for dynamic, participant-driven dialogue. OS can be used for bringing together an entire company to highlight emergent issues and opportunities before strategic planning, generating ideas for product or program design, sharing resources and best practices, understanding each other across cultures, sharing knowledge across disciplines, conflict transformation, exchanging thought and experience about complex situations, and engaging groups from small to large in seeing a full-systems perspective for their opportunities or issues. The facilitator's role in OS is very different than for other dialogic methods - participants facilitate their own discussions, documentation and noting of linkages and common threads. 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. 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 Open Space. Join me for 2.5 days of mutual exploration as we share learning in and about Open Space. Together you will discuss and create a theme for an Open Space meeting, 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. Everything from developing a theme to exploring invitation and outreach, design, planning, materials, variations, adaptations for cultural differences (for example in a non-readers environment or in a situation with power dynamics), how the site, food and other elements impact or enhance an Open Space event, how to include action planning if needed, 'what-ifs', 'when not to's', documentation, ideas for the sustainability of ideas, relationships and actions post-event, and more. Pricing - as always - is flexible - custom tailored to what you as an individual can contribute and afford. For more information on content, schedule and pricing overview and to register, Contact me directly at [email protected] I look forward to learning with and from you, Lisa Lisa Heft Consultant, Facilitator, Educator Opening Space [email protected]* * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
