18.30-19.30

Open Space Leadership Briefing

This informal pre-dinner session will offer the chance to get the ball rolling and start to gather ideas and proposals for Open Space sessions. Join us to:

• share ideas and tips on successful Open Space groups
• review the potential agenda topics and themes that emerge from the participant questionnaires with a fun topic-sorting exercise
• help start to shape the Campaigning Forum agenda, working in groups to start developing session proposals.

Open to all, though a working knowledge of Open Space methodology will be assumed.

Introduction to Open Space & agenda setting

Open Space knowledge exchange A

• Scheduled based on participant input each morning

Peer presentations

1. Arrange to host a peer presentation/workshop on the application form or by agreement after applying.

Open Space knowledge exchange B

• Scheduled based on participant input each morning

Open Space knowledge exchange C

• Scheduled based on participant input each morning

Ignite talks (7 min each)

1. Engagement focused campaigning, Timo Dreher, Greenpeace Germany
2. From email to calendar bombing – how we can use old-school-tech to win campaigns, Michael Dettbarn, Greenpeace Germany
3. Arrange to give an Ignite talk on the application form or by agreement after applying. See what it takes to deliver an ignite-style talk.

Speed pitching & social

Service providers and consultants tell you what they offer, answer your questions and/or take your feedback. 5 minutes per table then rotate. Free drinks (wine, beer, soft drinks)

1. Wegewerk (Juri Maier)
2. PostBug.com (Duane Raymond)
3. More to-be-confirmed (available during booking or by agreement)

Open Space knowledge exchange D

• Scheduled based on participant input each morning

Open Space knowledge exchange E

• Scheduled based on participant input each morning

Plenary: #RestoreNature – Against the odds by Ola Miklasińska

How to capitalize on a big opposition against your campaign’s goal?
How to make something unknown, known?
How to make your campaign move outside “the Brussels bubble”?

In this session, we will follow the rollercoaster ride of the #RestoreNature campaign which was never meant to be a campaign in the first place. We will talk (emergency) planning, movement building, the power of right messaging, how to turn the obstacles you encounter into the biggest driving force behind your campaign, but also what we definitely do not recommend doing… We will be practical but also brutally honest.

About the speaker:

Ola works as a communications officer at the WWF European Policy Office, focusing on biodiversity topics. She’s been involved in the #RestoreNature campaign that successfully advocated for the first-ever EU Nature Restoration Law.

What started as campaigning with a positive tone, quickly turned upside down due to the unprecedented opposition against the law from conservative and right-wing politicians. But the #RestoreNature campaign team and their partners rallied over 200 NGOs, more than a million citizens, 100 businesses, and multiple other groups to speak up in favour of the law and defend it together.

This massive mobilisation attracted attention from top mainstream media around Europe and put enormous pressure on politicians to support the law.

Open Space knowledge exchange F

• Scheduled based on participant input each morning

Teach-in: share skills or knowledge with others

1. Community organising: From planning to door knocking
   Discover community organizing and how this method works in building social movements. We’ll briefly explore the history (where it worked and why), the steps of community organizing, building the structure of a civic movement, educating leaders and planning civic campaigns in a community organizing approach (differences). Then we’ll progress into an introduction to the “door knocking” method – why we do it and how we do it. This workshop involves practicing this method. – Joanna Machowska, Common Thing Foundation (Fundacja Rzecz Społeczna)
2. Arrange to host a Teach-in on the application form or by agreement after applying. To be confirmed based on participant contributions (participants propose a presentation in the application or later)

Ignite Talks (7 min each)

1. Arrange to give an Ignite talk on the application form or by agreement after applying.  See what it takes to deliver an ignite-style talk.