Open Space Co-Learning Workshop

Friday 27 January 2012, 9:00 – 5:00pm

Friends Meeting House, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1AF, UK

Cost per person £20 – 200 sliding scale

Click here to book a place or here to talk to us about bespoke training, facilitating your event, or to ask any questions

This workshop invites those who are new to using Open Space Technology and those who already have some (or even extensive) experience of using it to co-learn together, deepen our practice, and share our experiences. Our lead trainers will be Martin Grimshaw and Robin Manuell.

What
It 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, likely issues that may be encountered, follow up and incorporating an event within a wider context or strategy.

Why
This will help anyone looking for a method for encouraging participation, engagement, equality and inclusion. Open Space Technology is a format for organising compostable conferences, unconferences, meetings, or stakeholder engagement, 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 participants to co-create experience, learning and solutions in a way that unlocks creativity.

Who
Open Space is used by large companies, local government, community activists, the BarCamp (CrisisCamp, FacilitationCamp, CityCamp etc) movement, and forward thinking organisations everywhere, from gatherings of 5 to several thousand people, from a couple of hours to several days. Open Space is a fundamental in the Transition Towns tool kit. It might be crucial to the future of politics and education.

Please help us spread the word – thanks!

More
Open Space World – http://www.openspaceworld.org
Open Space Community (Ning) – http://openspaceworld.ning.com/

Look out for the World Open Space on Open Space (WOSonOS) London 2012

Please see our coming events page for dates and location of DecisionLab’s other workshops or get in contact to arrange a date with us.