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MPI-WI March Education
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Agenda Thursday, March 18, 2010
Event PricingMember: $45 ($55 after 03/12/2010) |
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Open Space - Increasing Understanding of
Meetings as an Essential Business Tool
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| Terri Breining |
Open Space is an emergent trend and dialogic method where a facilitator convenes 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, sharing resources and best practices, understanding each other across cultures, sharing knowledge across disciplines, and engaging groups from small to large in seeing a full-systems perspective for their opportunities or issues. Participants facilitate their own discussions, documentation and noting of linkages and common threads.
This session will demonstrate the Open Space process, while providing specific dialogue for members of the Wisconsin Chapter on the topic of Increasing Understanding of Meetings as an Essential Business Tool.
Speaker Bio: M. Theresa (Terri) Breining, CMP, CMM
Theresa Breining, CMP, CMM is a principal with Breining Group LLC, whose focus is facilitating, training and consulting in the meeting industry. Terri has been in the meeting planning industry since 1976, and has been responsible for producing meetings around the globe.
Prior to forming Breining Group, Terri served as the founder and president of Concepts Worldwide, a meeting management firm headquartered in San Diego County for more than two decades. Concepts Worldwide was a recognized international leader in providing ROI measurement, consulting services, and full service strategic meeting management.
Considered by many to be a thought leader, Terri is an activist working tirelessly on the continuous advancement of the level of professionalism in the meeting industry, and has been serving as adjunct faculty for meeting planning programs for universities throughout Southern California for over 20 years. She is a sought after speaker, presenting educational workshops for a variety of business entities, and co-authored a book with Jack Phillips, entitled Return on Investment in Meetings and Events.
She has been recognized professionally many times over the years, including having her firm, Concepts Worldwide, acknowledged as a "Best Company to Work for in San Diego". In addition, she was recognized by MPI as their International Planner of the Year in 2000, she has been included several times on the list of “Most Influential People in the Meeting Industry” by Meeting News Magazine, and most recently, she was selected for induction into the Convention Industry Council’s Hall of Leaders for 2010.
Location, Map, and Lodging
Radisson Milwaukee - West
2303 North Mayfair Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
Phone: 800-395-7046
Property Website
Room Rate: $99.00
Additional Lodging:
Crowne Plaza Milwaukee-Wauwatosa
10499 Innovation Drive
Wauwatosa WI, 54911
Phone: 414-475-9500
Property Website
Rate: $99
Cut-off date: March 18, 2010
Community Outreach
The Community Outreach Team is seeking your help, as we continue our efforts toward supporting Wisconsin’s children! At the March meeting, we will support Camp HOPE for Kids. Camp HOPE is a wonderful place in central Wisconsin where children and teenagers gather to work through the grieving process after a loved one dies. The camp gently guides the children and teenagers through the complex emotions by showing them that they are not alone. The Camp, a non-profit organization, is offered twice a year and is free to campers. In order to continue offering the Camp at no charge, the Camp relies greatly on in-kind and monetary donations.
Camp HOPE’s current wish list includes many seasonal and arts & crafts donations, including:
- Winter mittens/hats (for those who don't bring any)
- Snow pants (we have kids of all sizes who don't bring them or don't have any)
- Sleeping bags (same reasons)
- Fishing poles and equipment
- Kleenex
- Flashlights and batteries
- White tee shirts and dyes for tie dying - all sizes and dyes
- Art supplies like paper, unique sets, pens, pencils, markers
- Balloons, string
- Tape
Please consider bringing an in-kind of this type to the March Meeting in Wauwatosa! Monetary donations are also accepted and appreciated. Checks can be made out to Camp HOPE. For more information on Camp HOPE, please visit www.camphopeforkids.org.
Transportation
The rising cost of gas and carbon emissions into the environment has prompted an opportunity to offer a carpooling option for this event. If you are interested in carpooling, please visit this link to either post your interest or see others that have placed a note on the ride-share board.
