OS newbie here

Tree Fitzpatrick therese.fitzpatrick at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 17:34:48 PST 2005


Thanks for telling us about 'begleiter', Michael.

I, too, would love to hear more about language and OS vocabulary.


On 12/5/05, Michael M Pannwitz <mmpanne at boscop.de> wrote:
>
> 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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Tree Fitzpatrick

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