Free open space training and workshops
July 13, 2007 Posted by Clare in : Bristol , trackbackJack Martin is running an Open Space training day in Bristol on Thursday 19 July. Jack knows his stuff in this area, having run an innovation agency before the word became fashionable, and learnt the Open Space thing from Harrison Owen himself. Seats are a bargain £10 for the training.As well as this, he is looking for an organisation to use as a case study - an NGO, social enterprise kind of thing to work with on the day, another great opportunity: Open Space meeting worth £2,000 offered free to Bristol non-profit organisations.
Open Space meetings allow diverse and often very large groups of people to get together for a day or longer to discuss issues of heartfelt concern, pool knowledge, share ideas and develop plans for collaborative action.
Participants create and run their own programme of self-managed sessions (such as discussion groups, experiential workshops, ideas sessions and planning meetings) related to a central theme of strategic or operational importance, such as “How can we make our company a great place to work?”
Since its inception in 1985 Open Space Technology has been used throughout the world by a very wide range of organisations and for many different purposes, including community participation, employee engagement, knowledge management, new product development, organisational change, problem solving, project planning and strategy implementation.
If you have an issue that you think an Open Space meeting might help address, and you can free up your people on either Thursday 19 July or Thursday 6 September, here’s some more information:
- Maximum number of people: 25 including the senior person responsible for the issue or project. Minimum number of people: 12.
- Timing: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (there is no flexibility here).
- Venue: Southville Centre, Beauley Road, Southville, Bristol.
- Cost: free, except for refreshments and lunch (an Open Space meeting would normally cost around £2,000)
The Open Space meeting will be at the heart of The Open Space Experience , a one-day training course for Open Space facilitators ( www.martinleith.com/osx ). On the day, course members will help design and organise the Open Space meeting in consultation with the senior person, under the guidance of Jack Martin Leith. Total confidentiality is assured.
This offer is only open to social enterprises and non-commercial organisations.
In the United Kingdom, Jack Martin Leith is the first-call organiser and facilitator of meetings, workshops and conferences using Open Space Technology . He started working professionally with Open Space in 1988, just three years after it was invented by Harrison Owen. Jack was trained by Harrison and has probably facilitated more Open Space meetings, and for a wider range of applications, than anyone else in the UK. His long list of Open Space clients includes Cabinet Office, Diageo, Emerge (a coalition of five London boroughs), European Commission, McCain Foods, NHS, National Association of Street Artists, Royal Dutch Shell and University of Brighton.
If you would like to explore this opportunity further, please contact Jack Martin Leith, the organiser and facilitator of the day, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Find out more about Open Space here: www.martinleith.com/open-space
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