Seminar Description

This seminar is for experienced leaders and consultants who run task-focused meetings. We introduce insights into how to design meetings that actually accomplish something. 

We will present you ten principles derived from 20 years of leading meetings in many of the world’s cultures. We show you how to shift your focus away from peoples’ behavior and create conditions under which people do their best without being told. Our seminar has drawn enthusiastic responses from hundreds of colleagues all over the world.

We teach a simple theory, philosophy, and methods equally applicable to society, organizations, groups and ourselves. We show how you can work on structure, which is controllable, rather than behavior, attitudes and motivation, which are not. 

You can achieve more while "intervening" less by helping people:

- See themselves as part of a bigger picture
- Commit to the meeting’s goal
- Say what they know (even in risky situations)
- Listen to ideas they don’t share
- Make choices in their own and a group’s interest
- Act responsibly when action is appropriate 

You will learn In this advanced seminar a theory, a philosophy and practice techniques that will enable you to lead meetings in a new and productive way. Here you can learn, explore, practice and grow in your ability to: interrupt stereotyping, keep a group from splitting, change a group's structure, reduce dysfunctional emotionality, and enable people to keep working despite differences. You will learn to make friends with anxiety, become a dependable authority, and deal with projections, whether a group member’s or your own.

For furher information read the letter letter (pdf) from Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff, see the workshop flyer
Workshop Brochure in English or Workshop Brochure in Finnish

and visit also the Future Search Network website.


Seminar Dates and Schedule and Program

The Advanced Meeting Management Seminar will take place 28-30 August 2008

Day 1 (13:00 – 17:30)
Lunch and Introduction
Principles for Managing Meetings

Day 2 (8:30 – 17.00)
Continued--Principles for Managing Meetings
Principles for Managing Yourself 

Day 3 (9:00 – 13:00)
Continued--Principles for Managing Yourself
Closing and lunch