For Executives, Facilitators, Consultants, Managers, Team Leaders, HR and OD specialists
This highly interactive, experiential workshop prepares the participants for leading planning meetings in organizations that intend to have highly participatory meetings such as Open Space Technology, Whole Person Process Facilitation, Appreciative Inquiry or World Café.
While all of these participatory meeting methods create powerful opportunities on their own, we find that when critical elements are attended to in the meeting preparations, you can experience:
- richer participation through creating an invitational and life nurturing setting
- greater idea generation by considering the best mix of people to be invited
- deeper engagement by paying attention to adult learning needs
- more focused results by exploring what's led up to the meeting and what the anticipated outcomes are to ensure the right theme and right meeting method are chosen
Planning for Participatory Meetings is a short online workshop offered on its own or as pre-learning for the Working with Open Space Technology and Whole Person Process Facilitation workshops.
Skill and Capacity Development
You will leave the workshop equipped with:
- Understanding of the critical role of the planning meeting to get the right theme, givens, and length of time for the participatory meeting
- A practical holistic framework for conducting a planning meeting in organizations that intend to have a highly participatory meeting
- Working knowledge of simple to use multi-purpose tools: the Medicine Wheel Tool©, the Deep Essence Tool©, the Grief Cycle, the Organizational Lifecycle, and the Storyline for use in the planning meeting**
- Guidance in how to set up the planning meeting with the right people, for the right length of time
A design of a planning meeting
The tools taught are the same tools that are taught in the Achieving Organizational Health and Balance workshop, but with a different application. In the Genuine Contact program, we use the same tools for multiple purposes and applications. The tools are easy to learn and the various applications of the same tools create conditions that keep the tools simple so that the organizations can handle complex matters.
, as one of the creators of the Genuine Contact program, has skilfully facilitated the Genuine Contact program workshops since 1990 as they were being created, tested, researched for effect, and developed into what became the Genuine Contact program. Birgitt brings her unique skills in assisting people to access their full intelligence. Birgitt is passionate about assisting individuals and organizations of individuals in shifting consciousness to achieve breakthroughs.
attended her first Open Space Technology meeting at the ripe old age of 13 and hasn't looked back since. She brings a broad international experience with meeting facilitation to this workshop as well as over 15 years of experience as a Genuine Contact Trainer. Rachel assisted in the development of the Genuine Contact Program and is passionate about creating the conditions for high creativity, productivity, and inspiration in well designed and facilitated meetings.