Graphic facilitator in Open Space

Audrey Coward audreycoward at bellnet.ca
Tue Aug 12 19:19:20 PDT 2003


Thank you, Romy for the website suggestion. It's now marked as Favorite
for me.
Audrey Coward

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Subject: Graphic facilitator in Open Space

Hi all

popping my head up briefly....  and grateful for all who speak here
regularly

Peggy

I use a graphic facilitator at most of the OST gatherings I support.
My experience is that it's perfectly possible to set up the presence
of the graphic facilitator as there to record what the people are
seeing and experiencing, rather than as simply 'doing his/her own
thing', or taking away from their self-responsibility in any way -
in other words I encourage interaction, and it seems to work.

The key point is that the whole event is then captured as a story,
which allows for instant recall (in a whole person sense) by those
who were there, and allows those there to tell the story to the people
who were not there.  It is usually so much more powerful that simply
having 'the book' of words - and valuable in supporting the on-going
conversation.

I encourage people to have the 4 foot x 30 foot (or whatever) 'posters'
encapsulated (a kind of lamination but lighter) and put on the wall.
Here it acts as a constant reminder of the 'space' everyone was in,
the conversations they had, the commitments they made etc. (It also
cheers up a lot of boring offices !!)

Michael has given some very useful sites to look at. I used to use
someone who used the Sibbert (grove graphics) approach - and I still
use their graphic templates from time to time. My favourite person
now, has his own wonderful style - he's my colleague Tim Casswell.
You may be able to access a sense of some of our work at his website
(www.creativeconnection.co.uk). Sorry I can't see it myself, as I'm
in deepest mid Wales, in the middle of a noisy thunderstorm, and my
iffy net connection has taken a holiday!

We used graphic facilitation in the work I did in Portadown, Northern
Ireland - including recording the storytelling the night before the
Open Space. Very powerful. You may find this on Tim's site.

btw I also get Tim (or whoever) to create a graphic roadmap (in place
of a linear agenda) of our intended time together. eg. showing
welcoming,
visioning (if there is some), opening space, sessions, action planning,
closing circle etc etc

Tim is also a fantastic musician, and in an Open Space with the UK
Small Business Service earlier this year, some of the people got him
to help them create an incredible SBS rap, which they performed in the
closing circle. You can imagine the energy?

so... enough from me.

please know that I appreciate all that is spoken here (and save the
messages
for a wonderful read one day!). I'm afraid there is just too much of it
to
read each day.

with love for all our spaces opening for learning, understanding and
peace

Romy (and Qimmiq the husky - the only full-time employee of Wikima
Consulting!)

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From:   "Pannwitz, Michael M", INTERNET:mmpanne at snafu.de
To:     [unknown], INTERNET:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU

Date:   09/08/03 20:53 PM

RE:     Re: Graphic recorder in Open Space


Dear Peggy,
have a look at event nr.79 on my website (open space, Veranstaltungen
and then go to Nr. 79), it had to do with revitalizing the inner city
of Wolfsburg (this is where VW has its major production plants).
Reinhard Kuchenmueller (with a crew of 2 other people) created about
200 A5 drawings using a highly developed technique that employs
certain colors etc.
These were clustered and presented on a large wall parallel to the
other stuff going on. He also created a story that he narrated for
the entire group one evening.
Also, as you can see in the photos accompanying nr. 79 there were art
students that created models from plans participants created and a
painter who created water color pictures.
It was interesting and colorful and fun, including the theater people
present who did sketches on the event in the evenings.
All of this together created a lot of different levels and ways of
looking at the work and the group...it was not anything the group did
itself.
It also narrowed the space for them to perhaps do some of this stuff
on their own.
So, if  a sponsor would inquire about introducing this kind of
recording I would probably explore the purpose, goal, intent.
More on graphic recording under the title "visual facilitators" at
http://www.visuelle-protokolle.de/eng/start.html
In Seattle
http://www.fullcirc.com/community/visualfacilitation2.htm
in San Francisco
http://www.grove.com/
they have been into this in a highly professional way for some time,
offer workshops, etc.

Here is also a direct link to the event Nr. 79 i
Wolfsburg
http://www.openspaceportal.de/openspace/list/pictures/?event_id=79&eve
nt_table=os_list_veranstaltungen&event_type=2

Also try to think of one thing less
hugs
michaelm


--Original Message Text---
From: Peggy Holman
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 10:57:33 -0700

Have others worked with graphic recorders in Open Space?  What are
your =
experiences?





Michael M Pannwitz
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12209 Berlin, Germany
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www.michaelmpannwitz.de

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