GAMESTORMING+DOODLING WORKSHOP (SUNNI BROWN). BILBAO: 22+23 Spt

Some months ago we were inspired with taking Sunni Brown to Bilbao to share a bit of her knowledge and her originality. Next week it´s coming true: on 22nd +  23th September she´ll be offering a 2 day workshop in Bilbao (just this opportunity in South Europe)...

DESCRIPTION:  Gamestorming your Workplace (A.k.a., How to Design and Run a Meeting using Words AND Pictures)


Since the vast majority of us have to either plan or attend meetings, why not become a Jedi at designing and running them? The simple but revolutionary techniques of visual thinking and gamestorming assure that your meeting not only doesn’t stink, but that you make the best use of everyone’s time and dramatically shorten the length of time in which you do it. The value of visual thinking and participatory design with a group is enormous and the benefits include...

• Using a simple, shared visual language to increase understanding and information retention;
• Applying improvisational discovery to keep participants engaged;
• Mapping the big picture, solving problems and innovating as a team;
• Creating visual meeting artifacts to drive decisions forward.

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist or an artist of any caliber to learn how to design and lead better meetings. In this day-long workshop, you’ll learn the fundamentals of visual language, how to illuminate complexities by mapping the big picture and how to use improvisation and games to innovate and solve real problems. At the end of the workshop you’ll feel more confident about using visualization in meetings and you’ll recognize the power of doing so. So let the games begin!

OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this workshop, learners will be able to:

• Recognize when to have a meeting (and when not to);
• Design meeting agendas that move a group to a desired outcome;
• Use games to support innovation and creative problem-solving;
• Leverage techniques that lead to co-creation and team solutions;
• Lead meetings, workshops, and group sessions comfortably using visual thinking and basic office supplies.
• ...

 WHO IS @Sunnibrown?

.. a business owner, creative director, speaker and co-author of one of Amazon’s Top 100 Business Books titled GameStorming: A Playbook for Rule-breakers, Innovators and Changemakers. She’s best known for her large-scale live content visualizations, and she is also the leader of The Doodle Revolution – a growing effort to debunk the myth that doodling is a distraction.
Sunni’s work was recently featured on the Boing Boing, BBC, CNN, The Washington Post, Fast Company (coming in at #56 on the 100 Most Creative People in Business List and #5 on the 10 Most Creative People on Twitter list),...

+ INFO on Sunni Brown; VIDEOS: Gamestorming +The Doodle Revolution
and lots in the web,...

Language:
Sunni Brown will be speaking English and organization will be helping with Basque and Spanish 

When? September 22nd + 23r, 2011
Where? in EUTOKIA (Bilbao)

Registrations: info@eutokia.org

Time: 09:00-14:00 eta 16:00-18:00 (14 hours)
Price: 250,00€ (professionals, unemployed, sutdents,...) – 400,00€ (organizations)

Exclusice Workshop in South Europe,

take profit and  spread the word!

 

Eleder BuM31    Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity

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Open Space Learning Workshop - December 15-17, San Francisco

Lisa Heft is a long time expert in Open Space Technology and is inviting us to a workshop in SF (USA) next December. Here Lisa´s website, OPENING SPACE. And here the message she sent to the OSLIST.

 Hello, my dear OSLIST colleagues - and thank you in advance for sharing the word about these upcoming workshops 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. Do join me if you are able to - it is always wonderful to share our diverse learning in a workshop such as this for people of all levels of experience. This text below includes a general description for those of your colleagues who may not yet have heard about this method, as well. May this message find you well and may your work be rich with learning and discovery... - Lisa

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Join us - register now - for the

Open Space Learning Workshop

For people of all levels of experience

December 15-17, 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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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.

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 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

lisaheft@openingspace.net

I look forward to learning with and from you,

Lisa Heft Consultant, Facilitator, Educator Opening Space   lisaheft@openingspace.net

Don´t doubt to attend, if you have it easy, and en-joy life :-)!

 

Eleder
BM31_ BILBAO: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity

• http://www.burumapak.blogspot.com
• http://bm31-liburuak.blogspot.com
• http://www.in-fluyendo.blogspot.com (ESP.)

Twitter: @Eleder_BM

FACILITATING A CREATIVITY WORKSHOP: SHORT REPORT

Last month I first time facilitated a 15 hours in-company creativity and mind mapping workshop. I had last summer offered two courses in a "summer university" (one on mind mapping; the other one titled "creativity in Open Space") and Topagunea (an association that organizes cultural activities to support Basque language in our region) requested me to organize and facilitate a workshop for them.

First of all I wrote a message to the CREA-CPS list and I soon received help from Raúl, Alan, Marc, Jeanne and others. A big thank you for all of you!

The workshop took place in Bilbao on the 21st and 28th of May and I find it was a (big) success. Let me tell you why I feel it:

1. The feedback from the group (7 people) was really positive. They liked the set and the organization of activities I designed for them (after some preparation conversations to listen to their needs), the techniques we used, the ice-breakers, learning about mind-mapping, the opportunity to speak many unspoken subjects of their everyday work-life, the topics that arose, the amount and quality of ideas generated and the action planning. Of course there are things to improve, but it was overall a very positive evaluation.

2. I could sense it during the workshop. It was also first time for them in such a workshop, they were, maybe, quite skeptics beforehand, but they felt comfortable, they let go, and I could let myself go, try things I had never tried and feel comfortable and helping.

3. From 0 to 1 is infinite. I find that just doing it (and not getting a soon and strong feedback against it, some stones thrown on my head or so :-) would have been a success for me, as far as I think that one must try first time and then get improving. I'm yes experienced in training and facilitating in other subjects, but it was sure my first time facilitating a creativity workshop. Now I know I can do it well and I can and shall improve my creativity facilitating skills.

I'll share some facts about this experience, specially in case someone who is starting in the field coud find it helpful:

The process: After the list messages and the first great advice for the general design from Alan Black, I received a big help from lots of e-mail conversations with Raúl Collado (Argentina) and other creativity facilitators in my area (Ixiar Garzia from Pink Gorillas and Leire Gandarias from Sumas_y_musas, mainly). I also reviewed during those months some creativity books (Julia Cameron's “The artists way,” Michalko's “Thinkertoys”, Mattimore's “99% Inspiration”, Osborns ”Unlocking your creative power” ...) and took notes from them. I kept a mind-map for the course, where I all the time was adding small details that could help do a better workshop. The week before the workshop I reviewed this mind-map once and again till a sketch ot the workshop was more or less clear.

The Spirit: as Raúl put it, I had to try to get the group to a playful spirit during the workshop. I selected some activities that would from the start break the ice and it really worked. People played, laughed, relaxed and let go. They also got to propose games or videos to watch and made the workshop more open. This helped me feel more relaxed and fearless also.

Some techniques: we just used some basic techniques, and they helped a lot: making a map to explain what each participant faced everyday at work and the main challenges for the organization, brainsstorming, brainwriting, multivoting, cutting and pasting pictures from magazines, forced relationships, mind mapping and open space-like action planning.

There could be more points to write about. Feel free to ask whatever you feel curious about or say your opinion on this (or your) facilitating experience.

Best wishes!

Eleder
BM31_ BILBAO: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Sormena

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  www.flowandshow.blogspot.com
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  www.bm31-liburuak.blogspot.com (BM31_BILBAO BOOKS)
• www.burumapak.blogspot.com (BASQUE)
• www.in-fluyendo.blogspot.com (SPANISH)
• www.bilbohiria.com/gaika/berbaz (BM31 RADIO INTERVIEWS_BASQUE)

Twitter: @Eleder_BM