The Alpbach Professional Programme on Facilitation and Participatory Leadership is a 3-day training course designed to teach simple yet powerful processes required for building a community, activating collective intelligence and fostering individual and collaborative leadership practices.

At the core of the training lies questions on how we can meet the complex challenges of today’s society and what are the practices and ways of working that can help us unlock potentials inherent in organisations in this age of diversity.

Based on “Art of Hosting” methodology, this training aims to give a dynamic and effective introduction to methods of working in a participatory and collective manner in order to tackle complex systems and challenges on local, regional, national levels and beyond.

The practice of participatory leadership recognises strategic dialogue and conversations as drivers for development and change. It can be used to good effect in areas such as:

• Strategy-making
• Stakeholder engagement and alignment
• Organisational and community development
• Leadership and management alignment
• Team and network development
• Staff engagement
• Developing and animating networks and communities of practice

International Trainer Team

The Professional Programme will be provided by a team of internationally-renown trainers and is led by Toke Moeller (Denmark), Monica Nissén (Denmark), Jan Hein Nielsen (Denmark), Martina Handler (Austria) and Phil Cass (USA).

What are the benefits?

The Professional Programme aims to provide participants with:

• A deeper understanding of a wide range of participatory methods and approaches
• Practical skills to apply in their own organisations
• The chance to gain first-hand experience as co-facilitators during the European Forum Alpbach

The training will develop skills required to host and practice participatory processes and apply this knowledge to your own work.

Preliminary Programme

August 16^th: Official Opening of EFA and the Training

August 17^th – 19^thh: Training Days

August 20^th – 21^st: Chance to gain additional Co-Hosting experience at Health Symposium & Seminar Week (optional)

Who is it for?

All those who want to develop skills in collaboration and participation and want to harness the richness of diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Specifically

• Professionals in public service
• Change-makers, social innovators and entrepreneurs
• Representatives of NGOs
• Leaders in business
• Selected Forum Alpbach scholarship holders

The Professional Programme is most suited to participants who will have the opportunity to apply what they have learned on return to their respective place of work.