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Those who may be interested in this might include educators, businesspeople, activists, community leaders, peace-builders, students, coaches, consultants, and those who work in organizational development, the creation of conferences, human resources, management, inter-group relations, mediation, civic engagement and more. Sliding scale enables people of all income levels to attend these events. ________________________________ Do you convene people for staff meetings, community gatherings, planning sessions, conferences or committees? Learn a method for bringing innovation, high productivity, rich communication and collaboration into your work together. Open Space Learning Workshops June 20-22 -and- December 19-21, 2007 San Francisco, California, USA for people of all experience levels -- continuing credits are offered for this course ________________________________ Facilitated by Lisa Heft International consultant, facilitator and educator and member of the global Open Space learning community ________________________________ In Open Space, participants co-create their own agenda around a central theme of strategic importance; and they facilitate their own discussions -- the facilitator's role is quite different than for other methods. Experience an Open Space and learn how to convene your own Open Space event, including pre-work, design, logistics, 'what-ifs' and 'when-not-to's'. Open Space Technology * is a method for convening a meeting, retreat or conference that generates communication, collaboration, innovation, and other solutions to challenges and transitions. Participants co-create an agenda and lead their own discussion and action sessions in a dynamic way that invites interdisciplinary and inter-group thinking. When your organization or community has a complex problem, you are completely out of ideas regarding a solution, you have a diversity of people that you can bring to the process, and the time for resolving this situation was yesterday --- This is a great time for Open Space. Participants emerge from the process invigorated, refreshed, and proud of their individual and collective accomplishments. The use of Open Space Technology has been effective since the mid-1980's in a diversity of settings, cultures and countries. The method has been used by communities working towards peace, chemists designing new polymers, tribal and governmental leaders planning land use, community advocates and local government designing literacy programs, conference organizers holding action conferences, architects designing pavilions for the Olympics, corporations doing strategic planning, and neighbors helping each other rebuild and heal after times of war. This tool can be utilized by groups of 20 to 2000 and the dynamics and the results are always the same: input from stakeholders at all levels, new ways of thinking and working, large amounts of work done rapidly, bringing perceived competitors together on issues and projects, organizational flexibility, interdepartmental or intercommunity teamwork, a sense of accomplishment and a feeling of passion and energy for the challenges ahead. ________________________________ The workshops bring together those who are new to the method and those who have experienced it -- an opportunity to share your learning and understanding and to prepare yourselves or further your learning for facilitating your own Open Space. In this workshop we will share our learning and thoughts about systems and chaos theory, grief and transformation cycles, and how organizations and individuals embrace, or resist, change. You will also experience an Open Space and learn (and share from your own experiences) how to design the event, prepare hosts or clients, coordinate and facilitate the meeting and help organizations or communities support the actions and momentum that come out of the meeting. Each participant will receive a copy of "the Open Space Idea Book" for continued learning. For more information and a registration form contact workshop facilitator Lisa Heft at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> * Read an article describing the method at: http://www.openingspace.net/papers_facilitation_OSCollaborationCommunication .shtml *See a graphic story illustrating Open Space at: http://www.openingspace.net/gallery/agora.cgi?cart_id=7547433.2297*cv4C71 <http://www.openingspace.net/gallery/agora.cgi?cart_id=7547433.2297*cv4C71&x m=on&product=Anatomy_of_an_Open_Space_Event> &xm=on&product=Anatomy_of_an_Open_Space_Event [...and if you wish to bring this workshop to your own community or organization elsewhere in the world, contact Lisa Heft] ________________________________ I look forward to hearing from you, Lisa ___________________________ L i s a H e f t Consultant, Facilitator, Educator O p e n i n g S p a c e <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <http://www.openingspace.net> www.openingspace.net * * ========================================================== [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
