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
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Communications Esther Matte schrieb:
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 was the bilingual opening. We
briefly considered doing the opening together, each in one language, but
quickly realized we couldn't walk the circle together. So we cut down on
the opening text so that Deb could do it systematically in both
languages (French and English). And she did a great job! However, it was
still too long. Later in the event, people started to ask that we do
just English since everyone there understood. But we were in Montreal
after all, so Deb maintained the French, and the organizers were happy
about that. They wanted to hold a bilingual event and they wanted the
French to be present.
Now that I think about it, I'm wondering if we could have done two
circles just for the opening. To put people in the OS frame of mind and
spirit in their own language. Then, merge the 2 in 1 circle, have them
look around it, feel the energy and richness of knowledge, experience,
etc. and then start the agenda. For the other circles, keep the
bilingual format, but with bits of French here and there instead of
systematic translation.
What do you think?
Looking forward to reading your thoughts :-))
Esther
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