Thanks for telling us about 'begleiter', Michael. I, too, would love to hear more about language and OS vocabulary.
On 12/5/05, Michael M Pannwitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I love this one, Tree. > Its been quite a struggle to find an alternative to "facilitate" in > German. > People here are often infatuated with english/american words and just > use such words as "facilitate" or "facilitation" which dont mean a thing > to "regular" folks even though they might be pretty familiar with english. > In German the word for the activity people are involved in when they > lead a structured exercise is "moderieren", you can recognize it by the > heavy activity on part of the "moderator". When "facilitate" is used it > is often with the intent to convey that it is not "moderieren" but gives > more space to the group. > The word that is now widely used by os-workers here to describe holding > time and space is "begleiten" which means as much as "accompanying" or > "going along with you" or "walking with you on the same path". It is > different enough from the commonly used "moderieren" to give a hint to > the difference. > Another detail in this scheme is to me to point out that the "Begleiter" > focuses one holding time and space (which I know when I see it but can > describe it) while the sponsor opens the space. > There have been voices on this listserve about the terminology and what > words are being used in different languages. I would love to hear more > about this. > Greetings from Berlin > mmp > > Tree Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > > > Another thought: I am not quite sure that holding space as an open > > space practitioner is facilitation. There is, at least I think there > > is, an important difference between holding space for strategic > > planning and facilitating a strategic planning process. > > * > * > ========================================================== > [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 > -- Warmly, Tree Fitzpatrick * * ========================================================== [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
