Training programme

Participatory Leadership and hosting meaningful conversations is a practice rather than a theory and therefore this training will be highly experiential, interactive and motivational.

​We will be working and learning together using the methodologies we apply in staff engagement and stakeholder consultation, with immediate practice opportunities. You will have opportunity to step in, join a coaching session  and prepare to cohost part of the process.

The hosting team will explain underpinning theories and concepts, share stories and bring inputs from their work in business contexts. They will also respond to any questions throughout the training.
Purpose of this training:
  • Explore hosting and harvesting conversations as a leadership practice and approach for engaging colleagues, partners, clients,  all stakeholders
  • Learn participatory and systemic methods and tools as Circle, World Café, Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space, Design for wiser actions, Four fold practice and others
  • Worldviews and models that will help you working with complexity
  • Addressing questions relevant to your specific context
  • Ignite your passion for more of this work - and maybe create new initiatives and projects that would not have happened without this training
  • Post-training support: follow up session, individual/group coaching 
  • An invitation to join the AoH world network for inspiration and support of  your practice

Day 1

10 :00 - 18:00
Participatory leadership and art of hosting in  your context 
  • Welcome & Check in (Circle)
  • New organizational paradigms
  • Four fold practice
  • Participants hosting matrix (sign up for hosting)
  • Mental models teaching session: Living systems, Chaordic Field (Nature of PL) - teaching session
  • World Café conversations about leadership and complexity
  • Collective Story Harvest: Application of PL by using World Café
  • Check out & closing Day 1
Individual/group work: coaching for new hosts to step in   

Day 2

9:00 - 18:00
Underlying patterns of participatory leadership and art of hosting
  • Opening Day 2, Check in
  • Harvesting teaching session
  • Divergence/Emergence/Convergence participatory process 
  • Open Space: Linking the practice to the context of participants
  • Collective Story Harvest: Application of AoH7AoPL by using Open Space
  • Check out & closing Day 2

​Individual/group work: coaching for new hosts to step in

Day 3

9:00 - 16:00
Design for application and implementation

  • Opening day 3, Check in
  • Harvesting session
  • 8 breaths of process design - teaching session
  • Design for Wiser Actions (DWA): your issues, projects and ideas to apply  and implement PL
  • Collective Story Harvest: Application of PL by using DWA
  • Highlights of the day
  • Bringing it home - your next steps
  • Check out and farewell!
Toast to the new connections before going home...!
70-20-10 Framework used for programme design :
  • The 70% - Experiential/Experience - learning through challenges, problem solving activities and practice
  • The 20%  - Social/Exposure - learning and developing with and through others from coaching, collaboration and cocreation in online mode
  • The 10% – Formal Education - structured lectures and teaching sessions
The final programme will be designed just before the training, on the basis of participants intentions and needs, and our real-time sense of current contexts, in order to make it as relevant as possible to registered  group.
Training language will be English.
  • This training is demanding as learning happens on many levels at the same time, from the macro to the micro and more personal dimensions of leadership.  This is why it is offered as residential, to be fully present and use in bets way our time together!
  • Come to this collective journey with an open mind, with what you know and what you don’t know, with your diverse perspectives and your questions! 
    For more information about  why this training is unique see AOPL FAQ document
  • It is most valuable to come as a team, for stronger impact and easier integration of new learning in your oranisation! Check team options!