Methods of Participatory Design
Course description
Explore hosting and harvesting conversations as a core leadership practice and skill set for leading change.
We offer practical, effective tools for building our collective capacity, facilitating community engagement processes and hosting conversations and meetings that weave all voices into a collective intelligence and inquiry. We co-build shared knowledge to create wellbeing in our communities and organizations.
The questions framing our training are:
How can we more effectively engage a diverse group of stakeholders in order to increase sustainability and wellbeing in our communities?
How can we be responsive to the needs of the communities or organizations we are accountable to or that we serve?
How can we work with adversities and complexity in a way that accounts for all different points of view?
Methodology
This course builds on proven methods for positive change and includes approaches to building collective capacity:
– The Art of Hosting framework and Harvesting Conversations that Matter
– Appreciative Leadership and Systems Thinking
– Mindfulness elements – Learning by Doing
These tools will give you more access to the intelligence of your head, heart, and body increasing your capacity for navigating uncertainty by tapping into all of who you are in your professional role and also as a potential change maker.
You engage in experiential learning acquiring new skills and tools while working on your organization’s real-life challenges. Participants receive a toolkit of methods that are transferable to professional settings.
Benefits
The course offers practical tools to build resilience through individual and collective learning to face challenges and change. Participants learn generative perspective as a means to deal with challenging situations.
You learn by doing to acquire new competencies, approaches and strategies to achieve more impact in your work as change makers. You leverage community members’ involvement in shaping the sustainability and well-being of their own communities.
You develop competencies in interactive, co-creation processes and experience participatory methods such as Open Space technology, Circle, World Café, Pro-action Café and more as well as new organisational frameworks and process design tools like Appreciative Inquiry, Chaordic Design and Theory U.
This training fosters collaboration and appreciative attitude in individuals, teams and organisations. The methods build a culture of positive challenges and cultivate positive (inner) dialogue during change / in intense situations.
Programme
- Opening and introduction
- Welcome Circle, Check in
- Appreciative Inquiry and the 4 D Model
- Participative constellations, The Chaordic Path and the 4-Fold Practice
- World Café on the gifts and practices of participation
- Check in close for the day
Local Evening – welcome reception
- A “mindful” welcoming of the day – hosting myself
- Powerful questions and the art of active listening, Appreciative Interviews, Reframing ‘Problem’ into ‘Possibility’ & Cultivating a generative approach – Triads
- Invitation as a process and Story Harvesting
- Communities of Practice, Learning Buddies formation
- Check in close for the day
- Weaving the threads of learning – Open Space Technology
- The Art of Harvesting-Mind map -“Align my practices and methodologies with participatory design”
- Reflection teams – Connecting with the new wisdom
- Communities of Practice – Sensing the need
- Check in close for the day
- Dinner
- Grounding our ideas and designing projects – Design for wiser action (part I)
- Design for wiser action (part II)
- Time for Self-reflection – Creation of my personal mind map
- Reflection teams – Connecting with the new wisdom
- Check in close for the day
- Co-learning from nature and other resilient environments
- Sightseeing archaeological places
- Walking reflection
- Outdoor activity
- Closing the day
- Check-in, Tracking our journey from day 1 to day 6
- Presentations of reflection groups – More Questions
- Gratitude Circle – Sharing
- Evaluation and Closing
Duration: 5 or 6 days
Dates: Upon request
Location: Athens, Greece
Designed for participants/groups
This workshop is designed for staff members of organisations active in the field of education, training and youth particularly for managers, counsellors, professional development specialists and change agents.
We are inviting diverse participants initiating change in their communities and organizations. These are the people seeking to construct more equitable and inclusive responses to pressing challenges.
This training is also designed for diverse and multicultural teams including community leaders and others collectively addressing a pressing challenge in their community or organization.
This workshop is designed for managers, counsellors, professional development specialists, change agents and staff of organizations.
This training is also designed for diverse and multicultural teams including community leaders and others collectively addressing a pressing challenge in their community or organization.
Instructors
Dr. Markos Perrakis, founder and managing director of Fractality, designs and implements projects in the areas of leadership development and strategic planning to promote effective communication and individual and collective process development.
Dr. Perrakis is one of the first persons in Greece to apply the methodology of appreciative inquiry for individual and organizational development. This approach seeks to strengthen human capital and social bonds to generate organizational capacity.
Fractality offers services in coaching, training, assessments, supervision, process facilitation and speaking, systemic consultation, solution focused and cognitive behavioural approaches, methods of participatory design, spiritual intelligence and psychometric assessment. Dr. Perrakis is a certified provider of Vocational Guidance and Professional Orientation and an ISO 9001 lead auditor.
Dr. Perrakis is a representative of the Association of International Institution Supervision in Europe, a member of International Intervision Groups, scientific assistant of the Society for Organisational Learning, and scientific partner of the European Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (EUMU) in Greece in the Strategic Planning and Human Capital Development programmes.
Dr. Perrakis holds a Ph.D. in social psychology on leadership styles and their efficiency in organisations and an M.A. in clinical psychology.
Sevi Chondrou has conducted studies in economics, environmental policy and management, public administration and social innovation. Since 2010 she facilitates, hosts and harvests conversations and public dialogue events using methodologies primarily from the Art of Hosting paradigm and process work that release collective imagination and creativity.
Ms. Chondrou has led numerous initiatives in the areas of community building, collective sharing, new economy, environmental protection and youth development. She is a trainer for the National School of Public Administration in Greece and other private, public and social entities. Her participatory training style is informed by complexity and chose theories brought into organisational science and practice. Ms. Chondrou holds an MSc in Environmental Policy and Management and a BA in Economic Sciences.
Venue
This workshop is held in Athens and on the island of Crete, Greece.
Our program takes place in Athens. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state that emerged in conjunction with the seagoing development of the port of Piraeus. A center for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato‘s Academy and Aristotle‘s Lyceum,[6][7] it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy,[8][9] largely because of its cultural and political impact on the European continent, and in particular the Romans.[10] In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Greece.
Our program takes place on the island of Crete in Greece in the pleasant seaside town of Platanias close to Chania, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Porto Platanias Village Resort, located on the northwest coast of Crete, provides luxurious accommodations and fully serviced workshop facilities. Beaches, local eateries, shops and sites are within walking distance of Porto Platanias. This setting provides ample opportunity for participants to continue discussions outside of formal workshop hours in a relaxed atmosphere.
The closest international airports are Chania International Airport (24 km) and Heraklion International Airport (165 km).
Participation Fee
The fee for this course is 780 Euros. More information on these funding criteria can be found on our Erasmus+ Workshop pages.
It includes tuition fee and educational material, certificates of participation, Beverages welcome cocktail, one day excursion (optional) to idyllic Neptune Temple at Sounion Cape (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounion) in Attica seaside (or similar activity).
Contact us
Questions or concerns? please contact us at [email protected] or call +302106010522. Cancellation Policy*
Until 30 days before the starting date of the selected workshop, cancellation will be free of charge and the pre-payment will be fully refunded. Between 30 to 15 days before the starting date of the workshop, 50% of the fee will be refunded. Within the 15 days before the starting date of the workshop no refunds will be made.