Re: Question - bilingual opening

2007-05-27 Thread Larry Peterson
As Diane said, we have opened together walking side by side moving back and forth between English and French with similar information and different expressions. That seemed to work. I've also opened in Inuktutuk, that is the translator opened with me, walking the circle. The person who had been a

Re: Question - bilingual opening

2007-05-27 Thread Deborah Hartmann
Thanks, Peggy. Did you two walk the circle? deb Peggy Holman wrote: When I did the OS in Colombia for the street kids, there were virtually no English speakers. Since I don't speak Spanish, we discussed my not opening the space at all. In the end, the sponsors felt that having this person wh

Re: Question - bilingual opening

2007-05-27 Thread Peggy Holman
her. Peggy - Original Message - From: "Deborah Hartmann" To: Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 11:46 AM Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Question - bilingual opening Thanks, Peggy. Did you two walk the circle? deb Peggy Holman wrote: When I did the OS in Colombia for the street kids, th

Re: Question - bilingual opening

2007-05-27 Thread Peggy Holman
rday, May 26, 2007 6:46 AM Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Question - bilingual opening Hi Esther, I had a bi-lingual setting for a number of times. For me it works best if a second person walks the circle right behind me who not pretends to be the facilitator but rather behaves as a shadow of me who

Re: Question - bilingual opening

2007-05-26 Thread Jo Toepfer
Hi Esther, I had a bi-lingual setting for a number of times. For me it works best if a second person walks the circle right behind me who not pretends to be the facilitator but rather behaves as a shadow of me who has a voice in the other language. Greetings from Kiev Jo

Re: Question - bilingual opening

2007-05-25 Thread avner
My dear Harrison, we miss you here. When are you coming again? Avner - Original Message - From: "Harrison Owen" To: Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 5:26 PM Subject: Re: Question - bilingual opening Avner wrote: "we opened a space in Arabic and Hebrew in Jerusalem.&

Re: Question - bilingual opening

2007-05-25 Thread avner
kept the rythem. It was fun and well received Avner Haramati Jerusalem - Original Message - From: "Corbaz Catherine" To: Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:41 AM Subject: Re: Question - bilingual opening Hello, everybody, Last year i did it in french with a German speaking

Re: Question - bilingual opening

2007-05-25 Thread Deborah Hartmann
I see many inspiring stories here... and I hope there are a few more yet to come! I can see several ways that would have worked. I have filed your messages and will review them next time I need to do this, looking for the solution that fits the context. Thanks so much! deb * * =

Re: Question - bilingual opening

2007-05-25 Thread Harrison Owen
al Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of avner Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 5:04 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: Question - bilingual opening And just to add to Michael Panwitz map of experiencing, about a year ago together with Fuad Abu Hamed, w

RE : Re: Question - bilingual opening

2007-05-25 Thread louise
Diane, you say about Opening the circle in "one or the other language alternatively" "It gives a great kick start to openness and cooperation." I agree with you. It helps creating the Us, instead of Us (my language and culture) and Them (their language and culture). Everyone feels included and

Re: Question - bilingual opening

2007-05-25 Thread Corbaz Catherine
Hello, everybody, Last year i did it in french with a German speaking colleague, who also facilitates OST. It went on well, maybe a bit long. With my colleague, the one who speaking walked , then stop,went at the rim of the circle and the other one went on. so everyone say it in its own wo

Re: Question - bilingual opening

2007-05-24 Thread Diane Gibeault
Openning the circle in English and in French together is also something Larry Peterson and I do. We have a preference for walking the circle side by side to bound the circle and build the energy (like a spiral). But as Harrison showed with his example, you find what works for you. I also open b

Re: Question - bilingual opening

2007-05-24 Thread Harrison Owen
tions, view the archives Visit: www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Communications Esther Matte Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:29 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Question - bili

Re: Question - bilingual opening

2007-05-24 Thread Deborah Hartmann
Hi Esther. Thanks for writing about this. What a great experience! Did you note that the journalist (from Montreal's largest daily) who wrote up the event, mentioned that the opening was in both official languages? As an anglophone from Quebec, I'm sensitive to this issue - it's political, and

Question - bilingual opening

2007-05-24 Thread Communications Esther Matte
Hi all, Yes, it was a great conference with Deb at Rococo. People there were really impressed with OS. Hopefully, we'll gather a few people for our FoFo in Val David this fall :-) Deb and I learned a lot, of course, as we do every time we facilitate OS. One of the questions we played with wa