visuals in os

Mon Aug 14 08:49:46 PDT 2006

Dear Reinhard,

I have experienced the work you do in Open Space several times,  
mostly in an intercultural setting. It really adds a value by  
underlining reflection and helps people to understand their process.

Warm greetings from Hannover

Ingrid

EBUS Institut für Entwicklungsberatung und Supervision
Ingrid Ebeling • Am Alten Gehäge 6 • D - 30 657 Hannover
Tel.: +49-511-336 03 30 • Fax: +49-511-336 03 47
e-mail: ie at institut-ebus.de • http://www.institut-ebus.de

Am 14.08.2006 um 12:46 schrieb Visuelle Protokolle:

> We fully understand that OS people see visual facilitators as  
> addendum, while we see OS as one of several possibilities to work  
> with people. That might be the base for mutual understanding.
>
> Your idea, that people themselves should draw, picks up the  
> discussion you and me had at the lake of Starnberg  I think in  
> 1998. The idea is brilliant. Since then we developed several  
> methods of drawing actions, like 800 union delegates drawing 72  
> pictures simultaneously in a conference in Vienna. Like our friend  
> David Sibbet we work with templates, like Nacy Margulies with mind  
> maps, we combine story telling with images, espacially in a group  
> exercise we call "Story Painting", a group split into writers and  
> drawers inventing a story, with an observer of the group process  
> and a story teller at the end.
>
> Like all with other methods, it is worth while to follow some  
> rules, not just to jump into drawing, and to honor the results. At  
> BMW in Munich there hang pictures in the corridors 300 IT engineers  
> drew 5 years ago - before the meeting they thought of throwing the  
> results away immediately ...
>
> Philosophers and Brain scientists tell us, that there is nothing  
> like an objective perception of the world, everybody forms his/her  
> picture of it. So some (most) people transfer this picture into  
> words and talk, and the listener transforms the words into his  
> pictures, and some work directly with pictures as a means of  
> communication ....
>
>
> Bur I think in OS people are used to communicate with words, and  
> more often are totally busy with their topics, so if possible some  
> external visualizer might be helpful to increase the understanding.
>
>
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> best regards
>
> Reinhard
>
> VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE
> Kuchenmüller & Stifel
>
> tel +39-0566-88 929
> www.visuelle-protokolle.de
>
>
> Von: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] Im Auftrag von  
> Harrison Owen
> Gesendet: Freitag, 11. August 2006 22:31
> An: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Betreff: Re: Working with visual artists at an Open Space
>
> One caution about visual artists and other such addendum. There is  
> no question that visual reflection of the conversation can add a  
> powerful dimension to the understanding of all the people. And the  
> caution is -- the visual artist must be part of the conversation  
> and not The Show. The good ones I know manage this juggling act  
> very well -- which makes them good. But there are some others, and  
> a serious conversation prior to the gathering about "place and  
> role" can be very helpful. For me the real art is the people and  
> the conversation. Everything else is just a supporting player. The  
> same would go for technology. Over the years I have been approached  
> by any number of bright techies who have created what they think  
> would be the "perfect" addition to the OS bag of tricks. In one  
> case the folks were peddling "Computer Based Decision Making."  
> Everything passed through a computer by way of large screens. They  
> were incensed when I declined their offer -- but I pointed out to  
> them that I thought it was entirely possible that the folks could  
> handle a conversation face-to-face. :-)
>
> One of the early folks in the "Visual Facilitation" arena, David  
> Sibbet, is an old friend. He may in fact have been the originator,  
> but in any event he created something he called Group Graphics. In  
> fairness, the product was marvelous -- but I did tease him a bit by  
> suggesting that if he really wanted to do Group Graphics, then  
> everybody should get in the act -- in whatever way they felt  
> useful.  And actually in the First International Symposium for  
> Organization Transformation we did just that. All 250 delegates  
> were offered crayons, paints, magic markers, whatever and  
> confronted by yards and yards of butcher paper. At the time nobody  
> had a clue what Organization Transformation was and even less  
> ability to talk about it intelligently -- so we drew it.  
> Collectively. Seemed to work.
>
> Harrison
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> best regards
>
> VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE
> Kuchenmüller & Stifel
>
> tel +39-0566-88 929
> www.visuelle-protokolle.de
>
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