Hello, my OSLIST colleagues -
I am just resting up after an invigorating experience giving a
workshop and attending the WOSonOS in Chile last month.
More thoughts and reflections to come about all that.
This message is about the workshop I am offering for anyone who would
like to learn the method of Open Space - or those who are experienced
who wish to delve a little deeper into the 'behind-the-scenes' about
Open Space - in a workshop setting. Thank you in advance for sharing
the message below with anyone you feel may be interested - through
email, tweets, other social networks, or face-to-face over a good
beverage with your friends, clients and colleagues. May this message
find you well and may your work be rich with learning and discovery...
- Lisa
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(As I write this, I am preparing for an Open Space retreat for
Executive Directors of community-based agencies working in the field
of HIV care and services - they will be sharing their knowledge,
experience, challenges and opportunities about their important and
challenging work in a changing economic landscape. The international
Open Space community has just had its 'World Open Space on Open Space'
in Chile - several days in and about Open Space for facilitators who
use this particular method in their work in organizations and
communities. This was the first time a 'WOSonOS' was held in South
America. I was a participant and a session convenor - I hosted a
session of silent dialogue. This year I have been teaching the tool
and concepts of Open Space to facilitator communities in Argentina and
Chile, South America as they grow their knowledge and capacity for
organization development and citizen engagement work. Earlier this
year I facilitated an Open Space conference for licensing executives
working together cross-organizationally to share thoughts about
knowledge ownership in technology and a retreat for executive
directors of social service organizations working in culturally
diverse communities exploring with their funders everything from race
and philanthropy to the impact of their work in communities of color.
And one of our graduates facilitated an international permaculture
Open Space in Jordan this year. This gives you a sense for some of the
different settings in which Open Space can be used to invite
productive, interactive, interdisciplinary and inter-cultural
thinking, idea generation, resource-sharing, and a sense of community.)
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Join us - register now - for the
Open Space Learning Workshop
For people of all levels of experience
December 14-16, 2011 - San Francisco, California, USA
Facilitated by Lisa Heft
President, Open Space Institute US
Fellow, Columbia University's Center for International Conflict
Resolution
Adjunct Faculty, Sonoma State University Organization Development
Program
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Open Space is a dialogic method where one facilitator can convene from
ten to 2000+ participants for dynamic, participant-driven dialogue.
Open Space 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 Open Space is very
different than for other dialogic methods - participants facilitate
their own discussions, documentation and noting of linkages and common
threads.
You may have heard of Open Space or participated in something called
Open Space or 'an unconference' and wondered why it did not work - or
whether it was really this complete and effective form.
Or you may have experienced something that sparked your interest as
you watched a group self-organize in a highly productive process - and
wondered if it was this thing called Open Space.
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 issues and opportunities in your own work
with groups, 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 power dynamics), how the site, food and other elements
impact or enhance an Open Space event, how to include action planning
if needed, 'what-ifs', 'when not to's', documentation, ideas for the
sustainability of ideas, relationships and actions post-event, 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
[email protected]
I look forward to learning with and from you,
Lisa
Lisa Heft
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution
Opening Space
[email protected]
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