A 2 Day Workshop by Harrison Owen; the pioneer of Open Space
29th-30th May 2008 London

“The search for high performance has been a major concern of businesses and organizations for decades. Achieving optimum levels of human performance is no longer just an issue of organizational effectiveness and maximized profit, but now a matter of global survival”.

Harrison Owen argues that in part the solution for achieving high performance is not another round of organizational change but a paradigm shift in our thinking and the need to recognize the importance of self organizing. “In effect were we to recognize and fully appreciate the power of self organization we could be relieved of an enormous task, freeing time and energy for the many other pressing issues of our day .We might actually learn how to leverage the power of self organization for our benefit, thereby achieving levels of performance which presently lie beyond our wildest dreams.”

In this 2 day workshop, the pioneer of Open Space Technology Harrison Owen will challenge senior leaders to explore on the leadership of High Performance in a self organising world. And yes most of the 2 days will be spent in an immersion of Open Space experiences. It will therefore provide senior leaders with the Skills for using and managing Open Space Technology in their own leadership approach.

About Harrison Owen
Harrison Owen is President of H.H.Owen and Co. In the middle 1960s, Harrison Owen left academe to work with a variety of organizations including small West African villages, urban community organizations, Peace Corps, National Institutes of Health and Veterans Administration, discovering that his study of myth, ritual and culture had direct application to these social systems. Since then the major focus of his work has been on an exploration on the culture of organizations in transformation and his numerous corporate clients have included Procter and Gamble, Shell, The US Army, IKEA, Statoil, SAS Pepsi Coal, Pepsi-Cola, The World Bank, AT&T, IBM , Boeing and ASTD. The originator of Open Space Technology, Harrison convened the First International Symposium on Organisation Transformation. He has He is the author of many books including Riding The Tiger, Open Space Technology: A Users Guide, The Millenium Organisation, The Power of the Spirit: How Organisations Transform and the The Practice of Peace.