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July 23, 2005
The first RoadMap seminar
Last Thursday was an exciting day, with 180 folks in our first GTD | The RoadMap seminar. Kathryn and I, aside from other business duties, have been recuperating for the last couple of days from the intensity of the last couple of weeks, with all the prep for the new format!
Feedback has been wonderfully positive. And it was particularly heartening to have a very sophisticated friend of mine say that he experienced the seminar as really about him, not necessarily about a system (as a good thing). He was referring to the emphasis I'm giving in RoadMap to paying attention to what has your attention, and how to address that constructively.
Still some tweeking to do to get the timing right (it's the best info from more than three days of seminar material and twenty-four years of work!), so it's packed with content. But overall I'm personally delighted. The best thing about it is that it's designed to give both information and inspiration about the value of applying any of the GTD principles, at any time - one doesn't have to commit to some long, detailed, complete implementation process (which is what many people felt after being introduced to GTD in my book or in the seminars).
And for those who DO want to spend more time with the details of a system, we're launching in August what we're calling GTD 1-2-3 as an implementation teleseminar series, available only to participants from RoadMap - three direct sessions with me for those interested in the nitty-gritty of setting up their own systems to apply the material. I think it's going to be an effective combo of the "big picture" and core principles in the seminar with practical systematic applications... more to come about that as we move forward.
Posted by David at July 23, 2005 08:47 AM
Comments
David, Congratulations. Sounds like you had a very successful start of the new seminar. I am signed up for the one in San Jose next month and am really looking forward to that event.
Posted by: Horst Wend at July 23, 2005 11:25 PM
Congratulations. When can us' geographically challenged' people get a taste of all these new developments - Will it be another book or will the seminar reach us first, I wonder - GTD fan from India.
Posted by: Vijay Raman at July 24, 2005 05:52 AM
Vijay - probably the next book. Hold on... we're coming.. (in some form!) - David
Posted by: David Allen at July 24, 2005 10:53 AM
Any possibility of alumni from the the orginal two seminars participating or auditing the teleseminar?
Posted by: Dan Schneider at July 25, 2005 05:06 AM
Dan - OK to participate. Contact Rachelle in our office for more info. ( rachelle@davidco.com or 805-646-8432 ) We're still not publicizing this anywhere but at The RoadMap, however. - David
Posted by: David Allen at July 25, 2005 03:17 PM
I attended David Allen's seminar in Santa Monica (it was only five blocks from where I live so how could I not go?!) last week and would highly recommend it. I describe what David teaches as "corporate Zen." In fact, the feeling I had when doing the "mind sweep" was similar to that I've had while meditating. Good stuff... Anyway, I wrote about this on my blog so if you're interested in more of my thoughts, check out http://www.learnoutloud.com/content/blog/archives/2005/07/getting_things.html.
Kudos David on a great seminar!
Jon
Posted by: Jon Bischke at July 27, 2005 08:58 AM
I think your tweeking may need some tweaking. But congrats on the new seminar series...
Posted by: Terry Porter at July 29, 2005 10:33 AM