Question - bilingual opening

[Jo Toepfer]

Hi Esther,

I had a bi-lingual setting for a number of times. For me it works best 
if a second person walks the circle right behind me who not pretends to 
be the facilitator but rather behaves as a shadow of me who has a voice 
in the other language.

Greetings from Kiev
Jo
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Communications Esther Matte schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> Yes, it was a great conference with Deb at Rococo. People there were 
> really impressed with OS. Hopefully, we'll gather a few people for our 
> FoFo in Val David this fall :-)
> 
> Deb and I learned a lot, of course, as we do every time we facilitate 
> OS. One of the questions we played with was the bilingual opening. We 
> briefly considered doing the opening together, each in one language, but 
> quickly realized we couldn't walk the circle together. So we cut down on 
> the opening text so that Deb could do it systematically in both 
> languages (French and English). And she did a great job! However, it was 
> still too long. Later in the event, people started to ask that we do 
> just English since everyone there understood. But we were in Montreal 
> after all, so Deb maintained the French, and the organizers were happy 
> about that. They wanted to hold a bilingual event and they wanted the 
> French to be present.
> 
> Now that I think about it, I'm wondering if we could have done two 
> circles just for the opening. To put people in the OS frame of mind and 
> spirit in their own language. Then, merge the 2 in 1 circle, have them 
> look around it, feel the energy and richness of knowledge, experience, 
> etc. and then start the agenda. For the other circles, keep the 
> bilingual format, but with bits of French here and there instead of 
> systematic translation.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Looking forward to reading your thoughts :-))
> 
> Esther
> 
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