Art of Participatory Leadership Training

We invite you to join our training gathering around the question:

How can we navigate the complexity & uncertainty of these times and cultivate resilience in ourselves, our organizations, and our communities?

It is an experiential and hands-on training. We exchange knowledge, experience participatory methods, and explore mental models and theories of complexity, change, and systems thinking. We dive into new forms of leadership, based on Living Systems – where interconnection, collaboration, and self-organizing around purpose lead to results for collective well-being. We remember how to listen to ourselves, each other, and the world within and around us.

Together we will explore new perspectives, tools, and practical ways of engaging a diverse group of people to discover new ideas and solutions by working regeneratively with complexity, conflict, and, emergence. Specifically you will learn how to:

• Design collaborative initiatives and projects
• Host meaningful conversations and harvest actionable insights
• Apply Art of Participatory Leadership methods to your projects and challenges (Such as World Cafe, Open Space Technology, Circle practice and many more… )
• Spark change towards regeneration in mainstream organizations, such as companies
• Be more resilient and equipped for adapting to an ever-changing world
• Leverage models for working with complexity, conflict, and emergence
• Translating your ideas and seeds of innovation into experiments and initiatives
• Notice and shift personal, team, and systemic behaviors and norms
• Introduce the benefits of participatory leadership to your own field

• Seeking a deeper understanding of how to plan and act positively in uncertainty?
• Wishing to create strong teams that have the capacity to work with complex challenges?
• Change-agents in corporations and in other organizations seeking to address the challenges of change towards sustainability and regeneration
• Wanting to create meaningful spaces for community and stakeholders to collaborate and co-create?
• Looking to explore new ways of evaluating results?
• Curious to learn the underlying theory of collaboration and complexity?
• Ready to ask the question “Why” over and over again?

This training is for you if you are:

• Leading multi-stakeholder projects and initiatives in the business or non-profit sector;
• Working in public service;
• Creating social innovations;
• Leading or being part of grassroots movements and communities;
• Leading diverse teams;
• Already attended an Art of Hosting training before and want to refresh and deepen your practice;
• Anyone who is willing to inquire about new ways of leading, working, and being together.

• Fees include three lunches and coffee breaks during the training.
• Fees do not include accommodation and transportation.
• Please contact us if you need a scholarship, with a little bit of background. We wish that economics should not be the only barrier for your attendance to our training.
• Once you registered our team will reach you in terms of payment.

Our training brings together a team of people with over 20 years of experience in creating cultures of collaboration by working with conversational practices that create new results. They, themselves, are continuously inquiring and experimenting with creating meaningful work through collaboration. Together, they bring the experience of working in International and European Institutions, large NGOs, private companies, foundations, small non-profit organizations, and communities, as well as working with senior and middle managers, activists, community organizers, multi-stakeholders groups, etc.

As the organizing team of İstanbul training, we are a group of passionate people for change working in various fields from enterpreneurship to sustainability, from leadership to youth work. We would like to help you to experience a learningful and smooth training, so, we bring our superpowers to host you in İstanbul in late September.