OS newbie here

[Erich Kolenaty]

Hi friends in Open Space,

the truth is, that Michael himself deserves the honor for fighting for years 
to make the difference between "begleiten" and "moderieren" common between 
germanspeaking openspacenics.

And I really agree with him: "Begleiten" much more points out that the main 
power at work is the selforganization and not the facilitators commands. And 
this helps creating a more appropriate picture WHO is doing WHAT.

Warmly from rainy Vienna

Erich

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael M Pannwitz
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
  Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 2:05 AM
  Subject: Re: OS newbie here


  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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