My pleasure, Andrew.
Its no secret that a lot of os-work is happening all over the planet.
And its also no secret in general that we os-practitioners are a shy
crowd, hiding most of the tremendous stuff we are doing. I keep
wondering why only a tiny fraction of our work is documented... seems to
me that documenting more of what we do is a simple way of spreading the
word. The 793 events recorded by some 60 of us in the worldscape
represent probably only 0,001% of what is actually taking place.
Greetings from Berlin
mmp
On 23.02.2016 22:02, Andrew Rixon wrote:
Thanks Michael.
And thanks also for sharing the openspaceworldscape link.
Australia looks a bit scarce on the map - but there is plenty happening
here. ;-)
Warm regards,
Andrew
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Michael M Pannwitz
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear Andrew, Lisa, Birgitt and you others,
a few years ago I was asked to facilitate an event in the northeastern
corner of Poland with folks across the border from Lithuania also
attending. The sponsor asked two translators to translate my US-American
introduction into Polish and Lithuanian. They walked the circle behind
me as Lisa also described. One effect was that I constantly had little
breaks to focus on the next thing to say and the participants had
various inputs they could understand in different languages (my
assumption: all understood their mother tongue, of course and most had
at least some rudimentary language skills in the other languages
spoken).
All posters were in the three languages and issues were written on
sheets that had been folded into three spaces, so that translations
could be added by other participants.
I was wondering how they would manage in the breakout sessions. To my
surprise, a number of the breakout sessions used Russian... so there was
a common language? On inquiry, I was told that it would never do to use
Russian in an event like this, at least not in the "official" parts.
Ok, be prepared to be surprised.
Here is a short summary of some aspects of this event back in 2002 as
recorded in the Open Space worldscape
http://openspace-landschaft.de/an_veran.asp?veranstaltungId=1041&sprache=en&von_seite=ue_veranstaltung.asp&ds=10&branche=&begleiterId=9&anzeigeOrtId=0
Reading through this report I noticed that I did not include the
part about Russian in my note... hmmm? Political correctness?
A few years later, Harrison came to Berlin and did his three day
Practice of Peace event. Every day starts with a lecture followed by
an open space on the theme of the lecture. On the first day,
Harrison introduced the process, on the second day a colleague from
Russia did it in Russian and on the third day I did it without using
spoken words.
To me, the most memorable moment was during the Russian introduction
(not being translated) when pretty much at the beginning a
participant ran to the Russian colleague, kneeled in front of her
pleading, in English, to please translate her introduction. At that
moment, his friend that he sat next to in the circle called out:
"Hey, come back here, I know Russian and can translate for you if
you like!"
This was a hilarious intervention that not only stopped the space
invader but also demonstrated how hidden the ressources in the group
are even for people in the know (friends).
From all this and other situations I learned to ask questions when
the issue of translation arose (especially when the sponsor of the
event does not come from the local context). This often leads to
"one less thing to do" and to make more space for the forces of
selforganisation to do its thing.
Yes, lets hear how things went and I invite you to deposit a note
about this event in the Open Space worldscape, a data base with
presently 793 events recorded, here is the link, its in English and
German
http://openspaceworldscape.org/
cheers
mmp
22.02.2016 22 <tel:22.02.2016%2022>:18, Andrew Rixon via OSList wrote:
Hi All,
I'm helping a client prepare for an Open Space event - 400 people,
and within the audience there will be a group of 10-20 koreans who
will require a translator.
I'd love to hear stories and tips on what people have found to work
well...
Warm regards, Andrew
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