Dear Lisa, I would love to be with you in the pre-workshop in London but my daughter is living there and I'd rather be with her a little bit while I'm in London.
I hope I will be able to learn with you in any other place on world. Would you like to pop up in Brazil? Hugs, Corina 2012/7/10 Lisa Heft <[email protected]> > Hi, all - > Back on this theme of Pre-Work - > > Hege: I would love to share learning with you - though you will be in good > hands with the fabulous team of Eva and Thomas. And I of course would love > to be in your workshops one day - Eva, Thomas and Chris. > We all have so much to learn from each other. > > I travel around the world with my facilitation and workshops - I go > wherever I am hosted and also have a few per year in my home region of the > San Francisco Bay Area. So you never know - we could one day share learning > about pre-work in or nearby to Norway. Or Australia. Or ... there is the > delightful mystery of what may happen in the future, eh? > > Chris - how wonderful that you are teaching OST and World Cafe at the > University. They are lucky to have you. And what a great workshop design! > With what you were saying and what Michael was asking - It sounds like > some of you teach (or are planning to teach) pre-work through engaging > folks in Open Space around that topic. Maybe others have other approaches > to this particular workshop design. And Chris, I am so glad you are working > with folks on invitation - really truly one of the major jobs for a > successful dialogue event. > > About my own workshop content and approach: My "The Power of Pre-Work" > workshop does not take place in an Open Space format - and it is not > exclusively regarding the method of Open Space. > It is an interactive 2.5-day workshop with a series of activities, > conversations and silent reflection - along with text, spoken word, graphic > and other forms of learning exchange, exploration, puzzle-solving and > reflection. > It is for any kind of face-to-face dialogue approach - not specific to > method. > > It shares lessons learned - and our existing pooled knowledge - about... > > - invitation text, strategy and the nature of invitation > - registration as two-way communication and a source of shared resources > - ideas for working around challenging rooms and room-sets > - values and actions regarding access and inclusion > - how food and beverage type, timing and location support or break into > the flow of dialogue > - diverse forms of documentation design for dialogue events > - thoughts about uncovering all the details in our communication with > clients to inform how we might design our event or what dialogue method we > might choose > - some of the many questions we can ask a client to inform this > - reflection on how we use both mind and intuition to inform ourselves in > the pre-work phase > > ...and more. > > Bhav and Sherri - I would have to think long and hard about how to use > existing technology - in a way that I feel I can truly support well - that > also reflects my passion for doing interactive, experiential, face-to-face, > participant-centered, activity-based learning design. So who knows - > perhaps that will be in the future. Meanwhile - I travel ;o) > > And Sherri - I will add you to my list of folks who would like to take > this workshop whenever time and place align. I teach this workshop in the > San Francisco area about once a year or wherever hosted - though I do Open > Space Learning Workshops a several times a year. If you can afford the > travel costs - my workshops are always a > pay-the-most-you-can-given-your-own-individual-or-organizational-ability > and for the San Francisco workshops there is always a lovely hostel nearby > for super low-cost housing, if you need it. > > As you know - I am passionate. Passionate about pre-work. And access. And > inclusion. And oh... a few more things.... ;o) > > I will see some of you at the WOSonOS in London this October. I will be > offering the Open Space Learning Workshop in the days just before - and I > am delighted to see some of my dear OS friends and some new ones as well > registering for that workshop. We will have a tiny taste about pre-work but > mostly focus on things very specific to Open Space in particular. I look > forward to seeing some of you there (you can register via the > wosonos2012.com website - see 'What's Happening When / Pre-Event Open > Space Learning Workshop'. > > Or you never know. I may pop up right next door to where you live... > > Cheers from a sunny afternoon in California, > Lisa > > > Lisa Heft > Consultant, Facilitator, Educator > President Emerita, Open Space Institute US > Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution > Opening Space > [email protected] > www.openingspace.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -- Corina Castro e Silva Paz e Bem!
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