Hi, Lisa,
Unfortunately, both sets of dates conflict with graduate school. At some point, Id like to speak by phone to discuss how I might help with any Bay Area Open Space events that youre facilitating so I can practice what I learned when I took Christine Whitney Sanchez five-day workshop (which includes OST, AI, and World Café). I sent you an email a few weeks ago about this. Best regards, Janet Janet Birgenheier JB Change Consulting, Inc. Helping organizations achieve business goals by engaging employees in change Office: (415) 458-3504 Cell: (415) 265-0990 Fax: (415) 458-3505 ja...@go4change.com www.go4change.com "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead _____ From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Lisa Heft Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:33 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: [OSLIST] Open Space Learning Workshops - August and December, San Francisco Hello, dear colleagues - Several of you have asked me if I could open up another workshop before December, and I am happy to say that I now have an additional date, this August, in San Francisco. I invite you to join me for this learning experience and thanks in advance for sharing the word - through email, tweets, other social networks, or face-to-face over a good beverage with your friends, clients and colleagues. I look forward to seeing some of you there - Lisa - - - - (As I write this, I think back on some of the Open Space meetings I have facilitated - for small groups to 2000+person conferences, in Mozambique, Spain, Thailand and other countries, for tasks including birthing a global network to save the oceans, figuring out how to spend a billion dollars of HIV funding, giving teen parents a voice in policy, a global Information Technology department engaging in strategic planning, and an international conference of doctors, nurses and other health advocates sharing best practices, challenges and solutions for saving lives. Open Space invites productive, interactive, interdisciplinary and inter-cultural thinking, idea generation, resource-sharing, a sense of community, and renewed energy for the work ahead...) Join us for the Open Space Learning Workshops For people of all levels of experience August 5-7, 2009 December 9-11, 2009 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. 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 theory can 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 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 rich power dynamics), 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', documentation 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 lisah...@openingspace.net I look forward to learning with and from you, Lisa Lisa Heft Consultant, Facilitator, Educator Opening Space lisah...@openingspace.net www.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 * * ========================================================== 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
