Sara Winge
Foo Camp co-organizer and Open Space-influenced convenor
Why they matter for gatherings
Sara Winge is a community and network builder who co-organizes Foo Camp and facilitates gatherings shaped by Open Space principles. She focuses on creating events where participants drive the agenda and collaboration.
Event designers and facilitators should study Winge’s approach to understand how to structure participant-led events that prioritize organic interaction and collective problem-solving. Her work demonstrates ways to foster spontaneous dialogue and community building in professional contexts.
Winge uses the unconference model and Foo Camp format, applying Open Space principles to enable self-organizing gatherings.
Here is how those methods work in practice.
The methods, ready to run
Named methods, and the exercises in our library that put them to work.
Foo Camp
Unconference
And here is where you can watch them run.
Where you can see them practiced
Gold-set agendas that visibly put these methods to work.
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Evidence and receipts
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