Re-opening during one day OST meetings

2002-09-16 Thread Thomas Herrmann
Dear Michael and others who have given this re-opening"-stuff" so much thought. I have been thinking about if/how to use this in my planned (and already designed)OST meetings. I can see a possibility in a few weeks where we have 1,5 days (remember my sheepfarmers). I hope they like the idea. I hav

Re: AW: Using digital cameras...and much more than that!

2002-09-16 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
In a message dated 9/16/02 3:52:05 AM, m...@visuelle-protokolle.de writes: << The regional leaders of a consulting company discussed their future. We made them paint their expectations themselves on flip charts, astonishing results - they never would have dared to show their fears as open in wor

Re: Open Space in Oral Cultures

2002-09-16 Thread Bernd Weber
Judy, yes it helps-a lot! S1) "to people the topics" YEAHH S2) symbols or pictures for other topics. Brings me back to the old idea to ask the people who already know a topic to bring an object or symbold for it with them when they gather. S3) Documentalists/Scribes for each group? Possible, but

Re: Re-opening during one day OST meetings

2002-09-16 Thread Michael Herman
the way i've done this, thomas, is to... 1. give a half hour or so for processing and production of one-flipchart-page gallery pages, one per topic. this time is for making and reviewing what's posted. then... 2. reopen the space, which happens much faster. the theme/question is essentially '

Open Space in Oral Cultures

2002-09-16 Thread WB-TrainConsult
Dear os-list my client asked me to write this email to the os-list. I have meanwhile facilitated several small OST events here in central Mozambique and started some os-sensibilization and ost-training (by doing) for community development facilitators of the Rural Development Program and a natio

Re: Haiti Open Space on Open Space

2002-09-16 Thread Diane Gibeault
Hi John, I'm catching up on correspondance. I will be heading towards Alaska on those dates but will think of the great contribution your event will make with participants. Best wishes to you and your colleagues. Diane Gibeault - Original Message - From: "john engle" To: Sent: Friday

Re: Using digital cameras...

2002-09-16 Thread Robert . Chaffe
The use of images along with other outputs from Open Space should follow the same path. The facilitator lets go and the participants decide. I have used a cartoonist to capture the images of an event - a form of story teller. The sketches when up with the other products for the participants to ..

Re: Open Space in Oral Cultures

2002-09-16 Thread Glory Ressler
Bernd, I echo the sentiments of others who say YES! it can be done and you are the person to do it! I recently facilitated on OS on community -based program development for people with developmental disabilities... by and large an illiterate group with varying levels of cognitive impairment. I c

Re: Open Space in Oral Cultures

2002-09-16 Thread Glory Ressler
Bernd, I echo the sentiments of others who say YES! it can be done and you are the person to do it! I recently facilitated on OS on community -based program development for people with developmental disabilities... by and large an illiterate group with varying levels of cognitive impairment. I c

Re: Open Space in Oral Cultures

2002-09-16 Thread J. Richardson
Hi Bernd, Wow - thank you for sharing such deep inquiry. During one OST I facilitated, many among the participants could not read and write. We chose to have people speak their topic and line up along the side of the group. Once all the topics were "posted or peopled", those standing in line spo

Re: the unexpected

2002-09-16 Thread Michael Herman
meg, michael, joelle, et al... my guess is that sometimes the language in which we propose topics on day one is either a bit too visionary for action or a bit to encumbered by the limits of immediate, short-term consciousness. my current experiment with re-opening the space for action on the last

Re: Voting

2002-09-16 Thread Michael Herman
Thomas Herrmann wrote: > > > I do see a shift at voting. A bit like back to business. I do also see that > almost always in the closing there are expressions of hopes that "this time" > things will start moving. I think convergence and voting is one way, at > least in an organization/company to ma

Re: Open Space in Oral Cultures

2002-09-16 Thread Ralph Copleman
On 9/16/02 9:18 AM, "WB-TrainConsult" wrote: > 1) Should I take the responsibility to invite my client to go for > such a journey? > In other words: is it possible to realize open space with people who > are completely illiterate? > > 2) Are there practical experiences I can rely on? > > 3) Would

Re: Open Space in Oral Cultures

2002-09-16 Thread Michael Herman
bernd, see engle, john. http://www.globalchicago.net/ubb/Forum8/HTML/07.html for 'opening space without the props - with non-readers/writers in haiti' m WB-TrainConsult wrote: > Dear os-list > > my client asked me to write this email to the os-list. > > I have meanwhile facilitated seve

Focusing

2002-09-16 Thread Julie Smith
Winston, You wrote: > Your point about the nature of the group is well taken: I have been less > than forthcoming about that. Sorry. In this case the need for > "formal/reproduceable/cuttable-and-pasteable" reports might be less than > paramount. The group is a part of the international "Focusing

VB: the practice of peace

2002-09-16 Thread Eva P Svensson
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Visuelle Protokolle [mailto:m...@visuelle-protokolle.de] Skickat: den 15 september 2002 10:36 Till: e...@epshumaninvest.se Ämne: AW: the practice of peace Julie, thank you so much. Marianne, my wife, and I start every day with a slow breakfast. Tosay, sun

Re: Using digital cameras...

2002-09-16 Thread Don Ferretti
I'm not hot on substituting the pics for the written reports - I like hanging out around the "newsroom" too much and the generative activity that creates. But, I do use digital pics to intersperse through the report of the proceedings so that it can be e-mailed. The combination of pics and written

Writing up of proceedings, and cameras

2002-09-16 Thread Eddie Palmer
dear list Interesting to read this dialogue. At present, we have stuck with as near to one sheet of flipchart paper per group per session, and NOT editted them, but reproduced them faithfully in the report at the end (of which we have our own format, which I think Kerry my colleague has spoken abo

Re: Using digital cameras...

2002-09-16 Thread Winston Kinch
Robert: Hey, thanks for the "throwaway" (camera) idea. Good stuff! Winston * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.e

Re: CORRECTION... imagine conference in open space

2002-09-16 Thread Michael Herman
my original message was just a touch off. please delete, in favor of the following which includes an important change. many thanks, m Michael Herman wrote: > hi all, > > a wee bit of news from chicago where we finished a > most-of-three days sort of ost with the 'imagine' programs > from all ar

Re: Using digital cameras...

2002-09-16 Thread Michael Herman
last year at vancouver osonos, jeff aitken told me about doing 'gallery' proceedings with each group getting one posterboard. in events since then, i've been more mindful of the processing that happens when raw flips get converted to *something* (word docs, posters, etc.) by participants rather th

imagine conference in open space

2002-09-16 Thread Michael Herman
hi all, a wee bit of news from chicago where we finished a most-of-three days sort of ost with the 'imagine' programs from all around the world. had 6 continents, 16 countries represented by more than a hundred warm bodies, youth and adult, meeting in an old maori (new zealand) meeting house at t