Clodomir Santos de Morais
Clodomir Santos de Morais was a Brazilian sociologist who originated the Organization Workshop (OW) and the associated Activity-based Large Group Capacitation Method (LGCM).
de Morais in Costa Rica in November 2008
The Organization workshop (OW) – or "Laboratorio Organizacional" (LO) in both Portuguese and Spanish – is a CHAT-based learning event where participants master new organizational as well as social knowledge and skills through a learning-by-doing approach. It is aimed at large groups of unemployed and underemployed, a large number of whom sometimes may be persons with lower levels of education (LLEs). The OW addresses locally identified problems which can only be solved by collaborating groups. During a Workshop participants form a temporary enterprise which they themselves manage, an enterprise which contracts to do work at market rates. Once the workshop temporary enterprise is over, organizational, management and vocational skills gained can be used to form new businesses or social enterprises.
Part of the group of 850 who took part in the 1992 Matzinho "field" organization workshop (FOW), in war-torn Mozambique
Part of the shared resource base ('Inventory') at the Ntambanana OW (South Africa) November 2012
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Vocational skills course during the Laurel OW (Costa Rica) Nov 2005