Koos wrote: To me, the essence of Open Space is all about reminding. Reminding people of something they already know and can do. We all have this basic knowledge and these basic skills. For some folks, the reminding just takes a little more than for others. And people sometimes tend to forget bits again along the way.
This reminding thing can be handled in many different ways. ... To me it seems, that 'reminding' is one way, activating the mind, the left side brain, and that 'repatterning' is another one, bringing the old and forgotten patterns to life, which we all have plenty off insides. David Sibbet, our beloved friend and paragon, looked at our live images we draw during meetings, and suddenly proposed to use the expression 'repatterning', cultural or visual repatterning. He said: we all gather pictures from the moment of birth until we die, but there are so many pictures and images, that we normally have no access to them. But they represent what we know and feel, sometimes even as archetypes. So if you come with your external images, you touch the inner ones, bring them in order somehow, and make them accessable. As you say, there are many different ways ... Mit freundlichen Gruessen Best regards Reinhard VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE Kuchenmueller & Dr.Stifel Munich Germany Tel: +49-89-202 447 48 http://www.visuelle-protokolle.de <http://www.visuelle-protokolle.de/> * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
