...on a lovely farm on the Westcoast 50 kms south of Göteborg we will use the site where we, last year, had the 6th Scandinavian OSonOS. See www.hallagarde.se <http://www.hallagarde.se/> Since this summer they have brand new conference facilities amazing very open spacy!
So welcome to three days of deep learning with amazing people, about Open Space Technology. Starting in the morning of October 7th, until October 9th. If you know anyone who might consider joining, pass the info on, and for a complete invitation in Swedish email me off-list CU Warm regards Thomas _____ Från: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] För Lisa Heft Skickat: den 7 augusti 2008 22:20 Till: [email protected] Ämne: Open Space Learning Workshops - New York and San Francisco Hello dear colleagues, and thank you in advance for sharing this information with your various colleagues, networks and communities. Sliding scale enables people of all income levels to attend these workshops. ________________________________ Do you convene people for staff meetings, community gatherings, planning sessions, conferences, committees or inter-group understanding? Learn a method for bringing innovation, high productivity, rich communication and collaboration into your work together. Open Space Learning Workshops Workshop dates for 2008 include: October 3-5, 2008 - New York, New York USA December 17-19, 2008 -- San Francisco, California USA These workshops are for people of all experience levels. ________________________________ Facilitated by Lisa Heft International consultant, facilitator and educator Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution and member of the world Open Space community ________________________________ Open Space Technology* is an interactive, participant-driven 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. 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-1980s in a diversity of settings, cultures and countries. The method has been used by corporations inviting productivity and teamwork during times of organizational change, 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, Information Technology departments doing strategic planning, and neighbors helping each other rebuild and heal after times of war. One facilitator can use this process to convene groups of 5 to over 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. Experience an Open Space and learn all about design, preparation, planning, logistics, themes, invitation, what-ifs, when not tos, variations and more. For more information about content and pricing and to register, contact workshop facilitator Lisa Heft at [email protected] *Read an article describing the method at: http://www.openingspace.net/papers_facilitation_OSCollaborationCommunication .shtml *See a photo-story showing the Open Space process 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 I look forward to hearing from you, Lisa Heft ___________________________ 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 * * ========================================================== [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
