Hello, dear colleagues - 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
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(As I write this, I reflect upon some of the diverse dialogue events I
have facilitated and the elements of pre-work that led to their
success - including a multi-language, multi-culture national immigrant
and refugee farmer conference, a series of 2000+ participant youth
ministry conferences, a national conference which introduced dialogue
to help participants name diverse and conflicting points of view in
their field, a meeting of international health workers sharing best
practices across country and culture, a retreat for a global
information technology department generating ideas for their corporate
strategic plan, environmental advocates birthing a new global
organization, HIV/AIDS educators developing mission, vision and a
shared values statement for their non-profit organization, six
international agencies collaborating on how to spend a billion dollar
budget - and other examples of high productivity, creativity and
partnership and meaningful outcomes in meetings based on dialogue
methods and processes. What supported the success of these events?
Not my magic jewel-like words and insights - instead, a thorough
analysis to select the appropriate tool, plus ongoing conversations
with the client teams about everything from issues and objectives to
site, food, documentation, invitation and outreach, follow-up and more
- with every one of these elements affecting or supporting dialogue.
To me, the pre-work is essential - and yet, everyone tells me they do
not get this sort of training in their academic programs or other
facilitation training. So I decided to host a workshop to share best
practices and lessons learned about the pre-work.)
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Join us - register now - for
The Power of Pre-Work
For people of all levels of experience
August 18-20, 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
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Facilitating staff meetings, community gatherings, planning sessions,
conferences and committees:
It is not just about showing up and doing some sort of magic
facilitation on the day of the event.
Learn how thoughtful, thorough pre-work can support the success of a
dialogue event.
For people of all levels of experience - although you will be able to
retain more of your learning about pre-work if you already do some
facilitation work
Whether you facilitate using Open Space Technology, the World Cafe,
Future Search, or other tools, processes and methods with and without
names - everything in the full system of your event affects and
impacts everything else. Share what you have learned and learn more
about all of the elements of Pre-Work. It is all part of an ecology of
interrelated elements.
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
Ask me about the The Power of Pre-Work workshop for facilitators -
August 18-20, 2010 - San Francisco
and the Open Space Learning Workshops - October 15-18, 2010 -
Medellin, Colombia and December 15-17, 2010 - San Francisco
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