I know Pinpoint Facilitation well and often hire pinboards (what some people call Metaplan boards) from them. They're perfect for when you're not allowed to post stuff on the walls of the venue. The company is run by Keith Warren-Price, who's a lovely person. Pinpoint is the UK distributor of Neuland products.
Jack Jack Martin Leith Imagining possibilities. Creating the new. Enriching the world. Bristol, United Kingdom Mobile: 07831 840541 (+44 7831 840541) Skype: jackmartinleith email: j...@jackmartinleith.com www.jackmartinleith.com | www.united.uk.com 2008/6/29 Jon Harvey <only.conn...@virgin.net>: > Raffi > > The book to get hold of is "The World of Moderation" by Michele Neuland - > published by Neuland. > > ISBN 3-931403-11-4 > > Happy pinpointing / metaplanning > > I use post-it notelets a lot - which I pinched from the principles of > pinpoint - which I was introduced to many years ago by a client. > > Atb > > Jon > > -----Original Message----- > From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Michael > M > Pannwitz > Sent: 29 June 2008 11:55 > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Subject: Re: Pinpoint > > > Dear Raffi, > this was one of the first participatory approaches developed in Germany > in the context of the 1968 spirit, called "MetaPlan" Method. It is > amazing how widely it has been and is being used in Germany in all sorts > of organisations from business to labor unions. Its probably the best > known and most widely spread method for structured work with groups. > The municipal planning department of Berlin introduced it to the public > administration in the early seventies and a bunch of us church connected > types introduced it in that field. People like Florian Fischer know the > initiators of this methodology. > In the meantime, a whole industry (Neuland) has been founded on this > methodology providing the pincards, pins, pinwalls etc. that you also > see being used by os-facilitators in this realm. And a big training > industry is still around training facilitators for this approach. > Various large corporations have internal departments for applying this > approach in planning processes. > There are a number of books, one in English describing the method in > detail...and a large number of studies. > Here is a website > > http://www.metaplan.com/ > that also gives you the Metaplan businesses in Germany, France and USA. > > If you look at the Learning Curve of Marvin Weisbord it is in the phase > "Groups solve problems" , facilitated but with the facilitator not > getting involved in the content. > > As I look through the internet, I see a vast amount of stuff, > links...have fun. > > Greetings from Berlin > mmp > > > Raffi Aftandelian wrote: > > Colleagues, > > > > Has anyone ever worked with the approach, Pinpoint facilitation? I heard > it > > of it for the first time in Moscow this spring. > > > > The person, a corporate trainer, claimed it was *more* effective than > OST, > > especially with groups up to 40 people. > > > > Very little in the way of information on the Pinpoint website and yet > some > > people are using it apparently with good results... > > > > appreciatively, > > raffi > > > > * > > * > > ========================================================== > > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > > ------------------------------ > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > > > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist