OST with handicapped persons

[catherine corbaz]

Dear Jennifer,
I believe for having animated other courses with illeterate people, that on
must try to be creative. Illeterate people have other ways to remember and
keep memories. I would try to find objects, which would represent the topic
the want to discuss, or to create objects... TO keep tracks of their
proposition i would tape it or make pictures. Besides the difficulties are
that illiterate people would not necesseraly trust the one who is writing
for them. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

Another way might be to trust the capacity of people to tell the story of
what happened in their workshop.

Concerning the complain of writing down the floor, i invit people to go back
to the chair and then to come back to the center, to take the microfon and
to say their topic and so on.

good luck anyhow

Catherine Corbaz
Catherine Corbaz
Ch.des Roseaux 20
Ch-2503 Bienne
+41 (0)32 323 38 43

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Hurley" <jlhurley at hfadesign.com>
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Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 2:13 AM
Subject: Re: OST with handicapped persons


> I've taken to saying "if you think your handwriting is too messy, or have
trouble
> getting down on the floor, feel free to ask a neighbor to help write your
topic".  I
> started saying that when I was working in a small rural town that had a
very high
> illiteracy rate.  People are often embarrassed about being illiterate, so
I wanted
> to give people an excuse for asking for help.
>
> BTW, every time I've opened space, someone has complained about having to
> get down on the floor to write their topic.  Have other people experienced
this?
> How do you respond?
>
> Jennifer Hurley
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>From  Mon Nov 20 12:46:47 2006
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Hello!  Here is an article I've been working on, drawn from an 
experience at XPday Montreal 2006, which I facilitated in both English 
and French with much help from Diane Guibeault of Ottawa (thanks, 
Diane), who helped me with the french script.  I wrote this to add my 
two cents to a conversation in our community about how to respond to 
larger events which are no longer as satisfying for some senior members 
of the community, who end up spending much time teaching and not enough 
as as they'd like simply learning from their peers.


  Experience Report: Beginners and Experts All Benefit in Open Space
  <http://www.infoq.com/articles/open-space-beginners-experts>

http://www.infoq.com/articles/open-space-beginners-experts

"/Agile conferences are receiving an influx of novice teams and managers 
- the Agile 2006 conference saw an increase of 50% from the prior year.  
Perhaps out of concern over conference size, some suggest that new 
conferences should be organized for these beginners, but this strikes me 
as missing the point - when we self organize, diversity is an asset.  I 
collected these observations about an interesting session at one Open 
Space event in order to share a concrete example of how mixing up 
expertise levels creates a valuable conference experience for all./"

Perhaps it will be of use to someone :-)
deb

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Deborah Hartmann
Agile Process Coach
www.vitalbrew.com

"Learn the principle, 
abide by the principle, and 
dissolve the principle." 
-- Bruce Lee

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