Dear Reinhard,
I have experienced the work you do in Open Space several times,
mostly in an intercultural setting. It really adds a value by
underlining reflection and helps people to understand their process.
Warm greetings from Hannover
Ingrid
EBUS Institut für Entwicklungsberatung und Supervision
Ingrid Ebeling • Am Alten Gehäge 6 • D - 30 657 Hannover
Tel.: +49-511-336 03 30 • Fax: +49-511-336 03 47
e-mail: i...@institut-ebus.de • http://www.institut-ebus.de
Am 14.08.2006 um 12:46 schrieb Visuelle Protokolle:
We fully understand that OS people see visual facilitators as
addendum, while we see OS as one of several possibilities to work
with people. That might be the base for mutual understanding.
Your idea, that people themselves should draw, picks up the
discussion you and me had at the lake of Starnberg I think in
1998. The idea is brilliant. Since then we developed several
methods of drawing actions, like 800 union delegates drawing 72
pictures simultaneously in a conference in Vienna. Like our friend
David Sibbet we work with templates, like Nacy Margulies with mind
maps, we combine story telling with images, espacially in a group
exercise we call "Story Painting", a group split into writers and
drawers inventing a story, with an observer of the group process
and a story teller at the end.
Like all with other methods, it is worth while to follow some
rules, not just to jump into drawing, and to honor the results. At
BMW in Munich there hang pictures in the corridors 300 IT engineers
drew 5 years ago - before the meeting they thought of throwing the
results away immediately ...
Philosophers and Brain scientists tell us, that there is nothing
like an objective perception of the world, everybody forms his/her
picture of it. So some (most) people transfer this picture into
words and talk, and the listener transforms the words into his
pictures, and some work directly with pictures as a means of
communication ....
Bur I think in OS people are used to communicate with words, and
more often are totally busy with their topics, so if possible some
external visualizer might be helpful to increase the understanding.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
best regards
Reinhard
VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE
Kuchenmüller & Stifel
tel +39-0566-88 929
www.visuelle-protokolle.de
Von: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] Im Auftrag von
Harrison Owen
Gesendet: Freitag, 11. August 2006 22:31
An: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Betreff: Re: Working with visual artists at an Open Space
One caution about visual artists and other such addendum. There is
no question that visual reflection of the conversation can add a
powerful dimension to the understanding of all the people. And the
caution is -- the visual artist must be part of the conversation
and not The Show. The good ones I know manage this juggling act
very well -- which makes them good. But there are some others, and
a serious conversation prior to the gathering about "place and
role" can be very helpful. For me the real art is the people and
the conversation. Everything else is just a supporting player. The
same would go for technology. Over the years I have been approached
by any number of bright techies who have created what they think
would be the "perfect" addition to the OS bag of tricks. In one
case the folks were peddling "Computer Based Decision Making."
Everything passed through a computer by way of large screens. They
were incensed when I declined their offer -- but I pointed out to
them that I thought it was entirely possible that the folks could
handle a conversation face-to-face. :-)
One of the early folks in the "Visual Facilitation" arena, David
Sibbet, is an old friend. He may in fact have been the originator,
but in any event he created something he called Group Graphics. In
fairness, the product was marvelous -- but I did tease him a bit by
suggesting that if he really wanted to do Group Graphics, then
everybody should get in the act -- in whatever way they felt
useful. And actually in the First International Symposium for
Organization Transformation we did just that. All 250 delegates
were offered crayons, paints, magic markers, whatever and
confronted by yards and yards of butcher paper. At the time nobody
had a clue what Organization Transformation was and even less
ability to talk about it intelligently -- so we drew it.
Collectively. Seemed to work.
Harrison
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
best regards
VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE
Kuchenmüller & Stifel
tel +39-0566-88 929
www.visuelle-protokolle.de
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