The Power of Pre-Work

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Comment by Lisa Heft on June 30, 2011 at 4:28am

I am hosting another The Power of Pre-Work workshop to explore lessons learned about all of this. If any of you will be in the San Francisco area it is August 24-26. Feel free to contact me directly at lisaheft@openingspace.net for more information...

Comment by Lisa Heft on June 30, 2011 at 4:27am

A warm welcome to Diana, Amanda, Eslam, Cliodhna, Soo Ren Chang and Tuan Anh Nguyen to The Power of Pre-Work!  We look forward to learning with and from you about all the details of preparation, planning and design that can support the success of an Open Space event. 

 

Cliodhna - I agree: I find that there are so many other questions to explore before ever getting to what tool / method  / structure is a fit for a dialogic event.  Personally, I do not go from the point of view of 'let us see how this method works' but instead 'let us hear your objectives, desired outcomes, time available, context, culture, how this fits into the series of things your organization or community is doing, how you might best use the documentation that comes out of a dialogue event, and many more questions. All these conversations and details inform selection of tool / process / design.

 

What do others think?

Comment by Cliodhna Mulhern on May 24, 2011 at 12:07pm

Hello friends...from my Art of Hosting experience I have learned the elegance of the Chaordic Flow...it guides my journey through all my dialogue work, though not in a linear way...it's chaordic after all...it goes from Need - Purpose - People - Concept - Beliefs - Structure - Practice...comes from Dee Hock...

 

I find I spend a great deal of time dancing around Need-Purpose-People-Concept - Beliefs....before we get anywhere near Structure (which is where the process comes in)..so it goes...Cliodhna x

Comment by Lisa Heft on October 3, 2010 at 1:34am

Thank you so much, lovely Christine Koehler. I only wish you could play with us in person in this workshop and share your great experiences and ideas. Soon, somewhere - I look forward to that again. And welcome David Vachell to the Power of Pre-Work! Feel free to look back through the conversations we have had to-date and we look forward to your thoughts and insights.
I am having fun - I will be designing a third workshop for next year - "Documenting Dialogue" - so I invited the "Power of Pre-Work" workshop participants to engage in an experiment as we explored diverse ways to have participant-driven documentation all the way through the workshop (!). So not only did we explore The Power of Pre-Work, but we co-collected the experience, which I am putting together into a booklet for them - my notes, their notes, their pictures, all co-created (can you tell I love this stuff?)
I will be giving this workshop every year in San Francisco and wherever else I am hosted - so if you know any organization, funder or conference that wishes to include this I look forward to playing with you in your own part of the world. Yet another opportunity for us to share our experiences and our knowledge as we jump into Open Space (and other face-to-face dialogue work) around the world...

But enough about me ;o)

What have any of you been discovering lately about pre-work - planning, logistics, invitation, outreach, site, documentation design, theme development, food and beverage - all those elements that can affect or impact the success of an Open Space event? I look forward to hearing your lessons-learned, good ideas and discoveries...

Comment by christine Koehler on September 8, 2010 at 7:40am

Congratulation Lisa for this new workshop !
I wish you a long success with it and lots of future co-learning together . Indeed I enjoyed it a lot in Berlin..

Comment by Lisa Heft on September 7, 2010 at 10:31pm

Welcome, Eva Ressel, to the Power of Pre-Work!

I just facilitated the new workshop I am offering called (you guessed it) "The Power of Pre-Work" - not particular to Open Space but for anyone who does face-to-face dialogue work, using any method. Thanks to all who participated in its 'maiden voyage'. Now I will be offering it once a year in the San Francisco area and wherever else in the world I am hosted. Perhaps we will learn together at some future opportunity - and a deep bow to those of you who have joined me at the WOSonOS in Berlin and the OSonOS in San Francisco as I invited and explored the elements of Pre-Work. And we will all simply continue to explore together wherever we meet and share our experience and ideas, in this Ning group, when we visit, in our workshops...I look forward to more co-learning on the subject, and I am glad you are part of our little learning circle here.
Warm wishes for a lovely IAF Europe conference...

Comment by Jan-Erik Tarpila on August 30, 2010 at 11:08pm

Thank you Jon,
I love the idea about balancing square dance. Square dance helps us make sens of our systematically chaotic world, at the latest when the linear cock book thinking strategy goes nowhere or is blocked on one end.

ps. Six weeks to go for www.iaf-europe-conference.org/

Comment by Lisa Heft on June 30, 2010 at 4:55am

Hi, folks - for those of you who live near or will be visiting San Francisco, USA this August 18-20 - I am hosting a workshop on The Power of Pre-Work (all your thoughts and our face-to-face sessions at the WOSonOS and elsewhere have inspired me). See this 'Events' section of our Ning site... I look forward to seeing some of you there...

Comment by Jon Harvey on June 21, 2010 at 8:17pm

Thank you Jan-Erik - I am all for more P...ing! But I would say that my 4 P's are not a sequence - more a square dance around each one to get them all in balance!

Comment by Lisa Heft on June 21, 2010 at 2:09pm

Welcome, Jan-Erik!
I totally agree with you - always, much more conversation with the client is necessary as one continues to do one's 'detective work' to unfold all of these elements before being able to then select the appropriate dialogue tool.

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