Training

Open Space Learning Workshop

Posted by Kaliya April 19, 2010

Lisa Heft is Facilitating an Open Space Learning Workshop December 15-17, 2010 (also this week April 21-23 but that is very soon) San Francisco, California USA

I took this workshop from Lisa few years after I started facilitating Open Space technology at unconferences. It was well worth doing and I highly recommend it.

Here is how she describes the method and her workshop: 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 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 rich power dynamics), how the site, food and other elements impact or enhance an event, how to include action planning if needed, ‘what-ifs’, ‘when not to’s', documentation, 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 her directly at: lisaheft@openingspace.net

Lisa Heft, Consultant, Facilitator, Educator at Opening Space Fellow, Columbia University’s Center for International Conflict Resolution Adjunct Faculty, Sonoma State University Organization Development Program President, Open Space Institute US

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Open Space Learning Opportunity

Posted by Kaliya August 17, 2009

My friend Lisa Heft is putting on an Open Space Learning Workshop in December 9-11, 2009 in San Francisco, California USA

This is how she describes the workshop:

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 lisaheft@openingspace.net

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Training in Collaboration Coming up

Posted by Kaliya June 6, 2007

There is a great event coming up in Colorado that will dive into 4 different methods of Strategic Collaboration. It starts with the question.

Are you interested in learning how to engage groups of 5 to 2,000 in strategic conversations? Would you like to attend a training that will give you the skills and knowledge you need to utilize four powerful methods that are being used around the world for breakthrough thinking, decision-making and collaborative action?

It covers Open Space Technology, Appreciative Inquiry, World Cafe, and Polarity Management. I lead Open Spaces and have participated in World Cafe’s. I have done short AI process and have friends who lead long AI process and just at Nexus for Change I learned about Polarity Management and was very impressed. I would from all I know recommend this training.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

  • Through experiential learning, gain a working knowledge of the principles, steps and practices of Appreciative Inquiry, World Café and Open Space Technology.
  • Practice Appreciate Interviews, small group learning and large group synthesis as part of the Discovery Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.
  • Engage in a World Café as part of the Dream Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.
  • Participate in an Open Space Technology meeting as part of Design Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.
  • Craft appreciative questions and provocative propositions in your own language and for your environment.
  • Design a large group project to take home.
  • Participate in two follow-up coaching sessions.

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My Face 2 Face Tutorial at OSCON

Posted by Kaliya May 6, 2006

I have been to OSCON for two years. Since my first event I have become more and more involved in different technical communities. Nonprofit Tech, Identity Gang, CivicSpace Drupal Developers/Businesses, and I have been to a lot of meetings as part of my participation in these communities. The opportunity to meet face to face is one that can often be rare and should be taken advantage of. I put together this proposal to support open source leaders who host face to face meetings to learn more about the process options available to them. I hope to cover at least 10 different ones. Here is a link to the workshop monday July 24th.

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