Am 28.02.2004 7:28 Uhr schrieb "Visuelle Protokolle" unter <[email protected]>:
> ..I want to ask you a question. > .....When I walk through the groups in an OS, listening here, taking visual > notes there, ...following the energy of honey smell. During the day I gather > lots of images I draw this way, images which I bring together. ... I show my > honey to the group afterwards, many of the others like it to have a visual > overview of the proceedings, .....the unspoken energy that I felt and drew. So > I found out that I create a group memory this way. > ......you often talk about 'holding space'. But at African tribes meetings, at > coffee brakes there is nobody holding space, or it is everybody. Self > organized. > Wouldn't some of you like to test a service to the group similar to the one I > am practizing? Holding space in another way? > Just start walking around drawing little images, not as a participant talking > and arguing with the others, but wandering to and fro silently and open > minded? And thus producing something wich no written protocol of the groups > can substitute? As a stepping stone for sustainability, something to come back > to, to show others? > And maybe this way also participants would follow the example and draw a bit, > like in World Cafè meetings using the table cloth for visual notes? > > dear reinhard, about the question whether there is a space-holder in the coffe-brake I´m sure it´s the bar-keeper. about the question whether there is a spaceholder in african tribe meetings,I called my friend irene, she is well experienced in ethnology, lived together for a lot of while with the tribe of the dinka in sudan. yes, she answered, they never meet without someone, who is called AGAMLONG. agam is confirming, long is speach/speaking. in english we my translate that as confirmer or transmitter he is repeating part by part of the discussion between different opinions of the participants. that´s the way how the the dinka do it to give space, to give honour, to expand the now, to appreciate the process, to frame the emergence. your way of confirming a discussion by taking little images may serve in an equivalent manner. come to goa, to our next following OSonOS. show up into the circle, draw your message on a sheet of paper and offer it on the marketplace it will be fascinating. florian ---------------------- florian fischer begleitung im wandel d 10779 berlin, muenchener 6 fon 0049.30. 2116752 fax 0049.30. 2115943 [email protected] ----------------------- * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
