an invitation to explore & practice the art of participatory leadership
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The cracks. It seems that wherever we look, old systems and power structures are shaking, while communities and cultures seek to understand and navigate multiple, interconnected systemic issues: rising cost of living, emerging technologies reshaping health, education and culture, and worsening climate and biodiversity crises.
The need. Many of us experience these issues in our personal lives, institutions, and cultures. However, we often lack the opportunity and space to collaborate and work together to address them. One element of meeting this need is to have people at all levels of our society equipped with skills and willingness to invite, facilitate and collect insights from conversations on the emerging edge of our culture. These conversations may be at the kitchen table, the water cooler, within and across organisations or part of our wider civic space. The invitation. This training is an invitation to explore, learn and practice ways to grow our capacity to invite, host and harvest the conversations that matter at the emerging edge of our culture today. |
what will we learn & practice together at the training?
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The Art of Participatory Leadership is a 3.5-day residential training on simple yet powerful leadership practices that build community, activate collective intelligence and foster collaboration across teams, institutions and partnerships.
The aims of the training are to:
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During the training, we will explore a range of conceptual frameworks, methods, tools and skills for designing, hosting and harvesting multi-stakeholder participatory processes. These include:
conceptual frameworks, methods, tools & practices
4 Fold Practice
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The Chaordic Path
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8 Breaths of Design
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World Café
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Open Space Technology
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Collective Story Harvesting
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Designing for
Wiser Action
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Strategic Visualisation & Harvest Design
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training team
Our training team has significant experience in using participatory leadership practices in their work. Throughout the training, you will have the opportunity to learn from and draw upon their expertise by exploring a range of case studies that demonstrate how these practices can be applied. These case studies will include:
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Want to know more?Learn more about the team, their experience and why they think you should join us in July.
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case studies of application
Our training team has an extensive range of experience applying participatory leadership practice in their work. During the training, you will have the chance to tap into our team's expertise by exploring and learning from a variety of case studies of application, including:
climate resilience & soil restoration
Systemic Landscape Restoration through Bio-Regional Weaving Labs Pieter will share his experience running developing Bio-regional Weaving Labs, a collaboration between Commonland, Ashoka Europe Fellowship, Drawdown Europe, Presencing Institute and more. Learn more. |
economics & immigration
Improving outcomes for Economic Immigration to New Brunswick, Canada Rosamund will share her experience working with NouLab to design, host and harvest the process the Economic Immigration Lab focused on cultivating a robust and just economy in New Brunswick, Canada. Read more. |
public health & service design
Citizen-centred design of Northern Ireland's Covid-19 response Maíra will share her experience of integrating participatory leadership practices into her work at Big Motive and how they use a citizen-centred design process to co-develop products and services with the local Department of Health and other stakeholders. Read more. |
cross team collaboration
Unlocking and leveraging learning to fuel collaboration using digital facilitation tools Zand & Maíra will share their experience of using a combination of the participatory practice and digital tools like Miro to unlock collaborative sense-making and learning online between teams and organisations across a range of sectors. |
international climate politics & policy
Strategic Visualisation at COP27 climate negotiations Stéphanie will share her experiences from COP27 in Egypt using strategic visualisation to help the UN make their climate action expertise more accessible to both expert and non-expert audiences. Learn more |
education
Cultivating Participatory Leadership skills through Masters level education Zand will share his experience of designing and facilitating the leadership in complexity track of the Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden. Learn more. |
These cases are just examples. Participatory leadership practices can scale up and down between 1-to-1 conversations and collaboration with hundreds of people. We will also share and explore examples of how these practices have supported us in our lives, teams and work more broadly.
our venue
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corrymeela
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