TALKA is a co-creative workshop methodology that can engage 20-100 people to create a practical plan, project, or concept in just 3 hours. The TALKA process allows many people to work together creatively and engagingly. It uses game-like steps to guide participants through filling a pre-constructed "frame" with knowledge, ideas, agreements, creativity, and solution development. This effectively uses the power of big groups while avoiding typical problems. TALKA creates results normally taking weeks in just a few hours and engages all participants as if working in a small team.

1. co-creative workshops
Use TALKA methodology during this year’s EU Sustainable
Energy Week #eusew13 and give your project / event
all the visibility it deserves!
With TALKA co-creative workshop you can engage 20 - 100 people to create practicable
plan, project or concept in just 3 hours time!
TALKA process makes it possible that many people work together in a highly creative and engaging way.
idea prioritazing
idea networking
responsibilities
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prioritizing
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vision aims draft strategy action plan
before the event the “frame” of the workshop is carefully constructed - every deliverable is trans-
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formed into game-like steps how the group will accomplish it.
during TALKA we guide participants through every step to fill the "frame" with "materials" -
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knowledge, ideas, agreements, creativity and solution development.
In this way TALKA effectively uses the power of big groups and at the same time avoids the problems
often coming with big groups. No time is wasted on discussions, but instead used creatively and effectively.
WHEN and WHAT FOR can you use TALKA?
You should use TALKA if you want to...
include many stakeholders with differing opinions
to create a SHARED STRATEGY and energize action
engage everybody
to make a CONFERENCE MORE FRUITFUL
use your organizations full knowledge
to make its new STRATEGY MORE POWERFUL and accepted
BE MEDIA-RELEVANT, PARTICULARLY FOR TV (i.e. highly visible, emotional, innovative)

2. What are special benefits of working with TALKA?
TALKA creates results of weeks in a few hours!
ENGAGE EVERYBODY:
engage up to 100 participants with productivity as if everybody was working in a small team.
CONCRETE RESULT:
during TALKA all participants are recording and structuring information so that a concrete result is
created step by step right in the event.
INTENSE, BUT FUN:
TALKA workshops vary group dynamics and game elements in every stage of the event, therefore
they are more interesting and less tiring to the participants.
We will push your activity to be qualified as media event during #EUSEW13
Where does TALKA come from?
TALKA was an ancient tradition common in the Baltic and Nordic countries* - many neighbors come
together to accomplish a large task in short time. As a cooperative tradition talka pooled together
resources and skills of families living in separate farms to accomplish something that single family would
not be able to do.
* This tradition is called talka in Latvia and Lithuania, talkoot in Finland, talgud in Estonia, dugnad in Norway, rådslag in Sweden.
Since 2009 with more than 150 events we bring this energetic and
lively tradition to modern organisations & companies!
Client testimonials
"Thanks to TALKA we
were able to create more engagement and creative
"Thanks to the TALKA
solutions for the company's new strategy in one session
team for the astonishing result of this workshop!
than ever before in brainstorms and meetings. This was a
Bringing Latvian IT industry from division to clear
great opportunity for everyone to contribute and feel
agreement and action plan would have been
part of the company's future."
impossible with organizing an usual discussion"
Janis Treijs, Parsla Basko,
chairman of the board, Human Resources Director & Human Resources Lead for
Latvian Open Technology Association Baltic Countries, “Aldaris”, part of Carlsberg group