Unleash the people with Open Space
Friday 12 June ’15: 09:30 - 17:00, London
Open Space Technology Co -Learning Workshop
The art of hosting participant-led unConferences, so lving complex problems, accelerating action, leading change in organisation s, and hosting conversations that matter.
#OpenSpaceTech
An exper iential co-learning workshop: London, one day, with Martin Grimshaw and Fra ncois Knuchel
Why?
Do you want a way to rapidly laun
ch new projects, bring participation, engagement, equality and inclusion to
your organisation or event? To harness collective ingenuity for problem so
lving? To lead transformation that is real and lasting? To drive innovation
?
What?
Learn how to
design and facilitate gatherings using Open Space Technology, a method by
which a large group of people can organise themselves into a conference, co
mplete with agenda, break-out sessions, action planning and reports, with a
lmost no preparation before-hand. Open Space allows each participant to do
what they need to do, and can be a very effective way of launching large-sc
ale change or responding to a looming crisis.
Who? This workshop invites those who are new to using Open Space and those who already have some or even extensive experience of using it, to co-learn together, deepen our practice, and share our experiences of using it.
< p>How?This workshop will be run as an Open Space so that participants can learn experientially, while learning how to design, prepare and facilitate an Open Space event, including tips and tricks, like ly issues that may be encountered, follow up and incorporating an event wit hin a wider context or strategy.
What is Open Space?
Open Space
Technology is a format for organising compostable conferences, unconferenc
es, meetings, stakeholder engagement, BarCamps and CityCamps, with maximum
efficiency and minimum time and resources. It is a form of ‘crowd sourcing’
which can be used to bring together a company or any group or organisation
to focus on a specific problem or question. Open Space allows for particip
ants to co-create experience, learning and solutions in a way that unlocks
creativity.
Open Space is used by large companies, local government, community activists, and forward thinking organisations everywhere, from ga therings of 5 to several thousand people, from a couple of hours to several days, even with little notice or preparation.
* A very limited number of ‘pay-what-you-want’ tickets are available on application. You just need to tell us a dazzling (but short) story of w hy you think the world will be a better place for you being on the course.< /p>
