The Agenda

Open Space Leadership Briefing

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

Getting to know each other: who are these amazing people in the room with us?

Plenary Speaker: Arun Chaudhary

Humour and creativity: How can we use it in campaigning?

Introduction to Open Space & agenda setting

Open Space knowledge exchange A

Scheduled based on participant input each morning and set at the event by participants:

Examples from 2023 event include:
1. “Are civil resistance groups doing more harm than good?”
2. “Election Campaigning Strategies”
3. “EU Election Agenda”
4. “Fail Tales”
5. “Newsletters”

Open Space knowledge exchange B

Scheduled based on participant input each morning.

Examples from 2023 event include:
1. “Artificial Intelligence”
2. “How to go beyond petitions and convert leads into real supporters?”
3. “Disinformation: how to tackle it and communicate in a polarised society”

Ignite talks (7 min each)

• Leveraging creativity for climate action: How creative professionals can use storytelling and design to inspire climate action and shift public narratives (Hanna Henshall, If Not Now)
• What is the protein transition, Why do we need it and How to accelerate it? (Florian Wall, madre brava)
• Christmas Markets stalls for Sustainable Development Goals (Aurora Souza Basso)
• Campaigning in South Africa (Chris Kif)
• US Election 2024: OMG! (Robin Paoli)

Examples from 2023 event include:

1. The Peat-za box: ‘It’s pizza, but not as we know it’ which is an engagement tool to get people interested in peatlands! (Sara Booth-Card, Wildlife Trusts)
2. The Rooftop News: a news site which aims to platform positive news stories, to amplify maligned voices and offer an alternative to the constantly negative mainstream news cycle (Lizzie Lewis, Campaign Collective)
3. How to get rid of your website’s consent banner (Juri Maier, wegewerk)

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

1. Wegewerk (Juri Maier)
2. PostBug.com (Duane Raymond)
3. Anyone else?

Peer Workshops & presentation

Scheduled based on participant input each morning.

• How to work effectively in a high disinformation environment? (Anonymous)
• Pump up your fluvium (Frank Lindner, Foodwatch)

Examples from 2023 event include:
1. “How to measure success when trying to reach people’s hearts and minds?”
2. Creating positive, solution-oriented campaigns in a world of crisis fatigue

Open Space knowledge exchange D

Scheduled based on participant input each morning.

Examples from 2023 event include:
1. “How to engage Western audiences in Eastern European campaigns?”
2. How to counter the alt-right: appropriating and twisting of progressive causes?

Plenary: Nika Kovač (My Voice, My Choice)

Topic: Building international networks and how to use kindness as a strategy

Open Space knowledge exchange E

Scheduled based on participant input each morning.

Examples from 2023 event include:
1. “How to evaluate the success of a campaign?”
2. How to push for change despite being blocked by more conservative parties and media?

Teach-in: share skills or knowledge with others

• How to prepare for media interviews (Frank Lindner, Foodwatch)

Examples from 2023 event include:

1. Social storytelling method workshop (Jean O’Brien, Digital Charity Labs)
2. Adventures with AI: Using ChatGPT and other AI tools in your day (Duane Raymond, FairSay).

Ignite Talks (7 min each)

• New tactics for influencing: How postcards are being used (Duane Raymond, PostBug)

Examples from 2023 event include:

1. The case for reuse (Keira Roth, The Developer Society)

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.