Lisa,
I thank you for teaching me so much! You share your knowledge with such delicacy, it just slides right in as if it has always been there.

-- Ashley Cooper, Texas, USA

Lisa Heft honors each learner and invites them into the partnership of teaching and learning together. Whatever the subject, she teaches inclusion, diversity, awareness of a greater community, interpersonal skills, passion and spirit for learning, and immediately applicable tools -- without imposing her particular style as an outcome.

She offers workshops and in-service trainings in interactive methodology to young people and adults at conferences and in organizations. She trains educators in how to be learning facilitators and how to create learning environments which support the learner's full engagement. She also trains speakers and presenters in how to engage the audience with interactive methods, visualization and participation.

Clients have included:

Training in interactive methods for educators:

Brazil national conference for people with AIDS/HIV
Centerforce / San Quentin State Prison
Centerforce / Central California Womens Facility
Family Health International
Grupo Pela Vidda (Brazil)
Health Initiatives for Youth
International AIDS Conferences
International Association of Facilitators global conferences
National Catholic AIDS Conference
New Conservatory Theatre Company, Educational Touring Division
Planned Parenthood Golden Gate
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
San Francisco State University
Westchester County Department of Public Health

…and for and speakers / presenters:

CHALK YouthLine
Community United Against Violence
Family Violence Council
Mayor's Youth Summit
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
University of California at Berkeley
W.O.M.A.N., Inc.
Young Women's Survival Project

Contact Lisa Heft for more information about her services or to share ideas and feedback on your own workshops and presentations at lisaheft@openingspace.net