Event: Open Space Technology Training

Creating Space for Self-Organised Transformation and Innovation

Many of us experience our work, the organisations we are part of, our communities, even our countries and in fact the whole world around us as transforming at ever increasing speed. To deal with the resulting challenges we need an approach that involves all affected and interested parties with their experiences, insights, questions and wisdom.

Open Space Technology is such an approach. It supports organisations and systems of all kinds and sizes to utilize their inherent potential for self-organisation leading to high performance characterized by collaboration, cooperation, participation and broad leadership. It provides a framework of time and space in which everyone works on those issues they feel passionate about and for which they are prepared to take responsibility. Leaders, managers, consultants, students, group workers, community organisers, planners and everyone interested in the future of their organisations and communities will benefit from this workshop. 

Main Features

• learning about the prerequisits of Open Space meetings

• experiencing an Open Space planning session

• experiencing an Open Space meeting under the title agreed on in the planning session

• reflecting on the recent experience as a participant in another Open Space session under the title “Open Space on Open Space”

• transferring their Open Space experience into first application steps in an Open Space action planning process

• parallel “learning spaces” for selforganised learning providing books and articles as well as audio and visual resources on Open Space

• “question & answer wall” to reflect on the current experience.

The training design follows the Open Space process’ inner logic by placing experiential and self-organised learning at its core. The underlying principle being that “Open Space cannot be taught or studied, but must be experienced first-hand in order to be understood and remembered”.

Fees

Participation Fee Including Catering until 31 January 2009 only: ZAR 6’750

Please note that this fee includes catering during the formal training sessions only. “After-hours” catering, i.e. dinner, accommodation and breakfast costs are excluded. You will receive your registration confirmation upon receipt of payment of a 50% non-refundable deposit. The remaining balance of the participation fee must be paid by 31 March 2009. Cancellations are not eligible for refunds, but a substitute may be sent.

Participation Fee Including Catering from 1 February 2009: ZAR 7’500

Multi-Booking Discount: 10% for every additional participant from the same company

SA LED Network Members Discount

If you register and pay before the end of January, you have a 10% lower price plus a reduction of 5%. From February onwards still a reduction of 5% on the regular price. Please mention you are a member of the network. They can confirm membership with Annelien @ admin@led.co.za / 082 563 7844.