TOOL | Open Space Technology

TOOL | Open Space Technology

Open Space is a highly flexible and participatory methodology that allows participants to co-design and self-manage their meetings around topics that they feel are most important to them. It’s a process that is fuelled by passion, synergy and shared responsibility.

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This tool will help you:

  • Engage participants in co-designing and sharing leadership for an event

  • Allow participants to propose and choose topics for further exploration 

  • Offer a way for participants to prioritize issues they want to discuss and potentially act on



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