OS newbie here

[Michael M Pannwitz]

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.

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