Dates
7 - 11 July 2025
Face-to-Face
Hotel Grenzfall, Berlin, Germany
Price
€2,100 per person (includes 19% VAT)
€1,900 early bird price (registrations before 28 February)
€1,800 group price per person (minimum of 3 participants from the same organisation)
Language
The event will be in English
Limited space
We have a limited space of 30 participants. Apply soon to ensure your spot!
Registration Deadline
30 May 2025
This new event will enable facilitators of economic and social change processes to guide and shape the collaboration of stakeholder groups and networks.
The course will equip facilitators to assist stakeholders in making sense collectively, exploring possibilities, adjusting their strategies, and improving mutual collaboration. In a nutshell, the event is about enabling change and innovation between organisations and stakeholders, as well as within organisations or teams.
During the event, participants will be trained to use the Systemic Insight process methodology developed by Mesopartner. This method consists of a facilitation toolkit, principles and templates that the participants can integrate into their contexts after the event. The Systemic Insight methodology is focused on enabling search, discovery and learning processes within a team and, more importantly, in networks of actors working towards a shared objective.
The content will focus on:
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Improving the dynamics in how stakeholders make sense, strategise and learn working together
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Improving the quality of dialogue and information flows through creative facilitation methods suitable for standalone events or iterative processes.
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Leading search, discovery and adjustment processes that result in trust, innovation and organisational strengthening in development
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Introduce participants to facilitation methods based on complexity thinking, which enable better decision-making despite uncertainty or incomplete social institutions.
Leading change processes between stakeholders is more complex than setting a vision and progressing through a series of milestones toward reaching that vision. Facilitators must guide stakeholders in exploring complex topics, probing possible solutions, and making decisions despite uncertainty. Furthermore, stakeholders must be able to critically assess their progress or emergent opportunities to make necessary adjustments during the execution of their strategies.
Key Features
Expert-led sessions drawing from Mesopartner's 20+ years of experience
Balanced learning approach combining technical inputs, case studies, and experience sharing
Who should participate
The Mesopartner Academy is ideally suited for facilitators and project managers who guide processes involving various stakeholders or networks, help them collaborate on identifying possibilities, collectively making sense of issues, and adjusting strategies at both network and organisational levels. Experts supporting meso organisations in strategising and innovating in turbulent contexts would find this event beneficial. Facilitators of bottom-up improvement processes - where a community or network is trying to make sense of changes or where a network is actively trying to discover or explore alternative futures - would also gain from attending the event.
Every organisation and social and economic development project requires such facilitation skills to navigate work effectively despite uncertainty, changing stakeholder dynamics, and volatile market or regulatory conditions.
What you will get from this event
Attendants of the Mesopartner Academy will have the opportunity to develop or enhance their process facilitation skills. Each participant will receive a Systemic Insight facilitation toolkit with templates, supporting documentation and access to a community of experts using the methodology to enable social change and learning. They will be equipped with modular frameworks, concepts, selected methods, and tools and will have gained simulated experience in combining and adjusting these instruments to different contexts. In various configurations, these instruments offer a consistent guide for navigating small and large development processes and making decisions in uncertain situations.
Participants will leave the training on Friday and be able to start using their newly equipped toolbox and facilitation approach on Monday, reframing and reinvigorating the processes or networks they lead or participate in.
Register now to secure your place in this exclusive training program.
What is included?
The fees will cover your participation in the training session, snacks, lunches, and two group dinners on Tuesday and Thursday. However, please note that the fees do not include any expenses related to travel, accommodation, breakfast, or dinner.
Accommodation Booking
If you wish to stay at the Hotel Grenzfall or Guest House, kindly mention it on your registration form. We will reserve your accommodation, and you can pay them directly. The accommodation dates are from Sunday, 6 July, to Friday, 11 July 2025. Please specify your dates on the registration form if you want to stay longer.
Small Print
Payment procedure
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You will receive an electronic invoice by email.
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Payment deadline is 30 May 2025.
Refund policy
If you cancel your participation, the following refund policy applies:
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If you cancel before 30 May 2025, 20% of your payment will be reimbursed.
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If you cancel after 30 May 2025, your payment will not be reimbursed.
Visa support
Mesopartner can assist you with your visa application to Germany. If you require an invitation letter, please contact us.
The trainers are partners of Mesopartner, a leading consultancy in systemic competitiveness and sustainable development. For the past twenty-plus years, Mesopartner has worked within the framework of international development cooperation for the leading support organisations, programmes, and projects.
Dr Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke is an economist with a PhD in economics and political science. He is a researcher and expert on quality infrastructure and sustainable development and a founding partner of Mesopartner.
Christian has 30 years of experience in Local and Regional Economy Development, Value Chain Development, Economic Governance and Quality Infrastructure. He has been involved in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating economic development projects in Europe, Africa and Asia for various development organisations and donors. Christian has worked as an intermittent team leader for different development programs in Vietnam and Nepal and has built the capacity of international and national consultants, national project staff and counterparts all over Southeast Asia and South Asia during the last 20 years. Christian has been based in Hanoi, Vietnam, since 2008.
Shawn is a process consultant working in the field of performance and competitiveness improvement of the private sector. He has conducted diagnoses in various industries in more than a dozen countries. His qualifications are mainly in strategic, innovation and technology management, and organisational development, and he has published on topics related to economic development and innovation. He is involved in research into complexity thinking applied to decision making, innovation support and industrialisation with different universities. Shawn is based in South Africa.
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