Hi Christine,
I very much enjoy the GroupWorks card deck and use it frequently to help
me understand, work with, and improve group dynamics when I teach at
Montana Code School, when I set up Open Space events, and when I coach
agile teams.
I've also used them to help me with group dynamics on the OSList. Tricia
Chirumbole and I were on the OSHotline at least a year ago and the two
cards that seemed to be the most helpful were the following:
*Embrace Dissonance and Difference:*
Encourage your group to honour contradictory viewpoints, sitting with
the uncertainty and ambiguity this brings. Acknowledge all perspectives
as equally valid and explore them fully as needed, especially when
tensions are high and agreement seems far away.
*Playfulness:*
Invite light-hearted and high-spirited interaction to exercise mind,
senses, imagination, and body, to engender creativity, and deepen
relationships. Playfullness may be evoked through structured but fun
ways to engage relevant topics, or restorative breaks that allow
laughter free reign, or may simply show up as humour.
The GroupWorks card deck was an open source project based on the design
pattern language from legendary architect Christopher Alexander which
also inspired the popular Design Patterns for object oriented software
development.
You can download the cards for free: http://groupworksdeck.org/
Harold
On 3/22/16 11:27 AM, christine koehler via OSList wrote:
Dear Friends of Open Space
We are very pleased to announce the release in French of the deck of
cards you may know: Group Pattern langage.
The Group pattern langage was created by a group of US facilitators
who gave it to the world with a creative common licence ( website
<http://groupworksdeck.org/> here)
With 2 colleagues, Jeremie from Switzerland and Juan-Carlos from
Canada, we translated it into French and found an editor who prints it
and distribute it.
We've created a website dedicated to the cards :
dynamiques-de-groupe.com <http://dynamiquesdegroupe.com/>
The cards are coming out in France and Switzerland next Friday , and
will be available in many bookstores for a few weeks.
Those beautiful cards show the many patterns we, as facilitators, can
see when a group works at its best.
There are many different ways to use those cards, and I'd love to hear
how you use it in your work. Would you share this with me ?
I'd wish all groups in the world would connect and use those patterns
to have conversations and work together so that terrible events like
the one we experienced again today in Bruxelles does not happen again.
Christine
_______________________________________________
OSList mailing list
To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org
To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org
To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:
http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
Past archives can be viewed here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
--
Harold Shinsato
har...@shinsato.com <mailto:har...@shinsato.com>
http://shinsato.com
twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush>
_______________________________________________
OSList mailing list
To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org
To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org
To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:
http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
Past archives can be viewed here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
