If you are running a session at GK3 and need some last-minute advice/support on your session design and process between Dec 11-13, please stop by the Support Design Helpdesk in the Interactivity Corner at the GK3 Exhibition Hub, located on Level 3 of the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.

"If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future." (Jacob Needham, et al. "Centred on the Edge")

Some workshop designers and hosts have expressed an interest in the appreciative inquiry approach to break new ground on their topics and/or bring the best out of a culturally diverse group. Appreciative Inquiry is a strategy for intentional change that identifies the best of 'what is' to pursue dreams and possibilities of 'what could be'.

Assumpitions of AI:

Open Space Technology (OST) is one way to enable all kinds of people to create inspired meetings by designing and managing their own agenda of parallel working sessions or conversations around a central theme or questions of strategic importance. www.openspaceworld.org

"When people frame their strategic exploration as questions rather than as concerns or problems, a conversation begins where everyone can learn something new together, rather than having the normal stale debates over issues."