Event: ICA: Participatory Strategic Planning

The course is suitable for all those who want to be able to involve people more effectively in planning and implementing medium to long-term strategies together, including team leaders and managers within organizations, those working with Boards, management teams, partnerships and external stakeholders, youth and community workers and independent facilitators.

The course presents a structured long-range planning process which incorporates the Consensus Workshop method for building consensus, the Focused Conversation method for effective group communication and an implementation process for turning ideas into productive action and concrete accomplishments.

Those with more experience of facilitation, strategic planning may need no further support to apply the process effectively in their own situations, and for others the course serves as a powerful, experiential introduction to the process.
During the two-day course the participants will learn an advanced method from the Technology of Participation (ToP®) series, developed by ICA: Introduction to Participatory Strategic Planning

The Participatory Strategic Planning is a process, which takes a group step by step to develop a plan in a participatory way, which will be owned and supported by everyone. This process is dynamic, participatory, flexible and realistic. It relies on the several mental steps in the decision making process. In the course the four planning phases are demonstrated and talked through.

• Practical vision
• Underlying contradictions
• Strategic directions
• Implementation planning

The two-day Participatory Strategic Planning course is set up in a highly participatory way. Methods will be demonstrated, talked through and practised. Participants will get a practical and comprehensive manual to take home to use these methods in their work.