i liked your joke, artur... but that's what i do -- i try not to
capture any butterfly ideas. i enjoy them and let them go. some of
them come back over and over and over until i write them down, send them
out or otherwise "do" them. i guess we call those ideas bumblebees...
they just won't leave us alone and demand that we go to work and get
busy with somehting! michaelh
Artur Silva wrote:
Doug:
I was only making a joke about "not capturing
real-life butterflies"... But my attempts to make
jokes in English are not very funny... Now more
seriously:
--- "Douglas D. Germann, Sr."
<[email protected]> wrote:
Paul and Artur--
These lines suggested to me our butterfly friends
in
open space. They look
lovely. They don't seem to be doing anything. Their
numbers and presence
indicate the health of the setting.
But they are also sometimes the most productive part
of the event, we hear.
Maybe it is only when we spend time with them, hear
their ideas, listen to
what they are listening to, hear why they are not in
a particular session,
and do similar non-things, that we start to find and
nurture the real value
of the meeting.
It might not be capturing, Artur, but it might be
alighting on the same
branch as they... or flying along with them as they
fly by... before they
are gone forever....
I think there is may be a risk with the strategy you
suggest.
Butterflies don't mind to see another butterfly in the
same branch and then they will begin to talk about
"butterfly things". But, if the theme is important,
sooner or later they will begin to talk about it, will
conclude something and often will even write a report
- there is no need for the facilitator to do anything
about it as this results from the OST design.
But I suspect that if a "facilitator" will try to
aproach buterflies asking them "what are you
butterflying about?" I am affraid that he/she will not
capture the "butterfly spirit" - he/she will only make
the butterflies fly away and leave the building,
taking the "butterfly spirit" with them...
My two Euro-cents
Artur
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