Chris - my warm wishes for rich co-learning in the great workshops you have just announced. For anyone who wishes to get down into exploring and learning about Open Space, specifically, I invite you to join me for the Open Space Learning Workshops this year in San Francisco. Several of you, dear colleagues, have enriched our workshop with your sharing of learning and experiences - I smile as I think of you and prepare for these next worskshops. Read on, and thank you in advance for sharing this amongst your networks and communities.
PS: as I write this I am working in Mozambique, where we (the fabulous John Engle and I) have used Open Space for a collaborative of agencies to decide how to spend a billion dollars of HIV/AIDS money in this country, where it has been used to raise the Mozambican voice in articulating and impacting where they feel external donor dollars should go, to support and highlight emergent local leadership, and to bring together everyone from international agency country directors to the gentlemen who drive the agency vehicles to discuss together the country's funding assistance plan. OS is one of those dialogic methods that works so well across cultures and countries... - - - - Do you convene people for meetings, planning sessions, conferences, inter-group understanding, and interdisciplinary, intercultural thinking? Join us for the Open Space Learning Workshops For people of all levels of experience May 6-8, 2009 December 9-11, 2009 San Francisco, California USA Facilitated by Lisa Heft Fellow, Columbia University's Center for International Conflict Resolution Member, Open Space Institute USA and the world community of Open Space practitioners - - - - 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 the issues and opportunities in your own work, reflect on how behavior change and grief and loss cycles inform our roles as facilitators, 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 theme to invitation, design, planning, materials, variations, adaptations for cultural differences (for example in a non-readers environment), how the site, food and other elements impact or enhance an event, how to include action planning as needed, 'what-ifs', 'when not to's' and more. Pricing - as always - is flexible - custom tailored to what you as an individual can contribute and afford. For more information on pricing and content and to register, contact Lisa Heft lisah...@openingspace.net I look forward to learning with and from you, Lisa Lisa Heft Consultant, Facilitator, Educator Opening Space lisah...@openingspace.net http://www.openingspace.net * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
