"Can you do that Online?"

Whenever it starts is the right time.

First:

• gather a cohort of 6 keen leaders
• find a kickoff date together that works for the cohort
• charter the workshop together in the kickoff

Target:

mid-August

Wherever it happens is the right place.

Deb Hartman Pruess designed this experience to be a fully immersive virtual workshop. We’ve been offering it virtually since 2016.

We use the virtual space to give you a better experience. We also created a same-room co-located variation for this workshop later.

This is a remote-first workshop.

Whoever comes is the right people.

This workshop is for leaders including:

change agents, facilitators, educators, activists, bosses, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, founders, developers, and coaches

Open Space creates new leaders, and Open Space sparks flow, or congruent high performance, in teams.

Your cohort works together for 3 online sessions. Each session lasts between 2 and 3 hours. Sessions are live, instructor-led, and fully immersive.

Your cohort will also work in pairs for self-study segments between full sessions.

We know some of our pairs have continued working together for many years after the workshop.

€684.-

Early birds will pay €584.- (saving €100.-).

We can’t let the price be a barrier to building excellence in Open Space Leadership. If you need other pricing and payment options, join us in a cohort we will find them with you.

Early Bird

We invite you to opt-in to your learning experience. We don’t ask you to pay until you choose to opt-in. We do ask you to opt-in before the second full session (after the first session kickoff).

But if you’re ready to opt-in and you choose to pay now, you will save with an "early bird" price. (While early bird options last for your cohort.)

Pre-requisites

1. You've been part of any Open Space event as a participant—events like: Agile Coach Camp, an Open Space day in your own company, a Women-in-Agile Open event, an online/remote Open Space, or an Open Space night at a user’s group or another community meetup.
2. You're planning to organise or hold a real Open Space event.

   What does "planning" mean? Planning includes "making a plan". (If you intend to hold a half-day open space—for your company or the community—sometime after this workshop then you're planning an open space.)

But your interest in this work is the real key!

If this workshop sounds engaging to you, then you've probably met the pre-requisites. Sign in to our Slack community to explore the reason for the pre-requisites and understand how you meet them.

After the workshop you'll discover new transformation in your work.

You’ll lead by inviting effective self-organisation.

After this workshop alumni held space at leading conferences and Open Space events. Others created new un-conferences, bar camps, and agile camps.

We've worked leaders who are now finding responses to climate change or  honing in on a cure for cancer using Open Space. (No. Really.)

You'll be ready to plan, organise and hold:

• Company offsites using Open Space (for 1-3 days!)
• Open Spaces to make real community change
• Agile Coach Camps, or a #WomenInAgileOpen event
• Half-day Open Space meetings for your work group or deparment
• User Groups and Meetups
• more...

Several alumni held space for various annual Global Scrum Gatherings in the USA and Europe. A Scrum Gathering invites over 1,000 people into the circle. Alumni held that space comfortably and effectively. They've shared many stories of  amazing outcomes.

Several held space for 30-70 people at Agile Coach Camps with more stories of amazing outcomes.

Open Space is a natural phenomena for change and adaptation in our increasingly complex world.

We have impressive stories with showy social media / influencer friendly outcomes.

But showy social media ready stories are not what’s  important.

You'll discover the life-changing magic of Open Space quietly in groups of 10 people in your neighbourhood or at your child's school. You'll discover it in the way you hold space for people and coach teams.

Those are the most meaningful Open Space stories we tell.

The Open Space Technology Handbook by Harrison Owen is one of my favourite books.

Of course, you can learn about holding space from blogs online. You can learn from a book. There are excellent guides to Open Space online.

Open Space is much easier than you though, and harder than you ever imagined.

We offer something different.

We’re offer a deep, intentional learning experience. You'll explore what sets Open Space facilitation and leadership apart.

You'll deepen your own leadership stance especially related to congruent, lasting transformation.

The workshop is a safe-place for you to practice holding space in a new, deeper, and more effective way.

You'll have the support of colleagues and experienced guides in your cohort even after the workshop itself is done.

Yes.

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