Honest conversations. Open minds.

A global community for African and diaspora professionals to connect, heal and grow.

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Conversations

We have the conversations everyone avoids.

Personal. Social. Business. Existential. The issues nobody else is willing to talk about.

Our spaces

How we transform lives.

No panels. Just people learning from each other and leaving changed.

You leave with
Belonging.Proof you're not the only one.
Clarity.A truer view of yourself and your choices.
Growth.A next step, and people who'll hold you to it.
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We pick the personal and social issues people find hardest to talk about.
01

Find the real issue

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Research, good questions and trained moderators who guide without lecturing.
02

Plan the conversation

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Members and partners in one open space. Everyone speaks. Everyone listens.
03

Bring people together

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Accountability partners, resources and community keep the change going.
04

Keep growing

Community

We connect you to what helps you grow.

Find your people. Everything else follows.

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Lifelong friends. Collaborators. An accountability partner who keeps you on track.

People
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When people truly know you, doors open. Members look out for each other.

Opportunities
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Conversation guides. Recaps. The podcast. Programs that keep you growing.

Resources
Esi Otchere

In their words

It's very rare to find people you can be safe with. OPENSPACE has been the gift I didn't know I needed.

Esi OtchereAdmissions, Webster University · Ghana

Our moderators

Hosted by some of Africa's brightest minds.

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Fred ApalooFred ApalooVilla Grace, GH
Dentaa AmoatengDentaa AmoatengGUBA, UK
Sunita KragbeSunita KragbeBasecamp Initiative
William AdoasiWilliam AdoasiVitae, London
Maya Horgan FamoduMaya Horgan FamoduIngressive Capital, NG
Lambert AkwaLambert AkwaCommunications
Arnold Sarfo-KantankaArnold Sarfo-KantankaFuture of Ghana
Terry AframTerry AframBridge Partners, GH

Our mission

Honest conversations, everywhere.

Honest conversations change people. Changed people change their families, workplaces and communities.

YouYour communitiesThe world
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Why we exist

There's a difference between being alive and actually living. OPENSPACE is where I get to show up fully as myself. I want everyone to have that.

Sydney SamFounder, OPENSPACE
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Ways in

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Chapters

100 chapters by 2030.

Each with its own team, community and calendar.

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5 live2,000+ peoplesince 2018

  • Ghana
  • Nigeria
  • Kenya
  • United Kingdom
  • South Africa

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