Thank you very much Vini for your answer. I love the way you use them ! Those are very good examples of using the deck in training in a fully participative way : having the participants select their own criteria/paths for improvements and then making them discuss together the way or ways to achieve that in their own context. Top !
Christine On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Vinícius Miranda <vinicius...@live.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > By mistake I answered only to Christine. I paste below my original > response and a follow-up response when she asked more information about it. > > Hi Christine and others, > > Among other uses, one particularly interesting way of applying the cards > was in Collective Story Harvesting processes. When in workshops about > facilitation, leadership or similar topics, using the patterns as lens in a > CSH makes the learning come both ways: through the story and through the > lens. With some patterns some creativity needs to be applied so it can be > universal enough to fit a story, but usually it works amazingly well. > > Warmly, > Vini, from Brazil > > ---- > > > Hi Christine, > > oh, that was a mistake indeed. I am going to send the e-mail again with > the list cc'ed in a moment. > > In the process I run, I spread the cards over the ground or on a table and > ask participants to select cards over some criteria (e.g. patterns that are > really important to you, patterns that you miss in the groups you > participate, patterns that you need to practice, etc.). Usually I ask for 3 > cards, and then I ask them to narrow it down to 1 card. That is a way of > doing something like a Participatory Needs Assessment, which means that it > enables me as a facilitator to see what are the "hot topics" in the room. > It usually helps me to understand better the group and how I can be of > service. > > About CSH, I ask participants to hold the card they've chosen and their > lens to listen to the story. If there are questions on how to adapt the > card to a lens, we resolve this prior to listening to the story. For > example, card "All grist for the mill" could mean the points on the story > where people have been flexible, adaptable, or have used what could be > considered bad/sad moment to their learning or to their advantage in the > end. As all the patterns are fractals, usually you can use their meaning as > a lens. Except from this, I run the CSH as usual (storytelling, reflecting > back, how was it for the teller, how was it for the listeners, and in the > case of more than one storytelling circle, a meta-harvest where similars > lenses talk usually in a world-café format). This brings a wonderful > learning experience both through the story and personal connection but also > on applying the pattern as a lens in real-life situations. > > Does this bring more clarity to you? > Any other way I can be of service? > > And yes, I am an AoH practioneer :-) > > All the best, > Vini > > ------------------------------ > To: chris.alice.koeh...@gmail.com; oslist@lists.openspacetech.org > Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:08:40 -0600 > Subject: Re: [OSList] New: Group Pattern langage in French > From: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org > > 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/> > 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 > 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 > -- [image: Christine Koehler, créatrice d'espace de Dialogue et de Coopération] Executive Coach, Facilitatrice en intelligence collective www.christine-koehler.fr Tel : 06 13 28 71 38 Fax : 09 72 32 36 65 <http://christine-koehler.fr/2013/formation-de-levenement-au-processus-avril-2013/>
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