Naming matters

[Fr Brian S Bainbridge]

Dear Jeff
Mike Bell talks of being an "animateur" - which I think is brilliant.
Cheers and blessings,   BRIAN.
Jeff Aitken wrote:

> I use the term "collaboration" all the time -- but I do not use the term
> "collaborator" (California spelling?) to describe the people involved.
> Rather, I talk about "collaboration among" participants, members, staff,
> etc.
>
> Meg, I have also described my role as "consultant/facilitator" for a few
> years, to distinguish from other kinds of consultants I guess. I don't get
> many blank stares from people looking at my card, tho they may wait til
> they are around the corner before they scratch their heads. My new "title"
> is in my signature below. I love your addendum "complex situations"!
>
> (Bernd, in the US our inimitable President Reagan used the term
> "Peacekeeper" to describe the most horrible machine ever invented, a
> missile with ten independently targetable nuclear warheads. I'm sure he got
> the term from old western movies.
>
> Which reminds me, these missiles still exist, and it's high time we turn
> them into pruning hooks.)
>
> Jeff
>
> -
> Jeff Aitken
> Collaboration consultant: specialist in open space process
> 1281 Burnside Road, Sebastopol CA 95472 USA
> (+01) 707-829-8256
> http://www.openspaceworld.org
>
> Turn to one another. - Meg Wheatley
>
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