Question - bilingual opening
Harrison Owen
hhowen at verizon.net
Fri May 25 07:26:06 PDT 2007
Avner wrote: "we opened a space in Arabic and Hebrew in Jerusalem."
Perhaps it is because I know you. Perhaps because I have been there. But
whatever the reason, your note is very special to me. Thank you!
Harrison
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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of avner
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 5:04 AM
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Subject: Re: Question - bilingual opening
And just to add to Michael Panwitz map of experiencing, about a year ago
together with Fuad Abu Hamed, we opened a space in Arabic and Hebrew in
Jerusalem. We were walking separately in the one circle, sometimes he was
leading in Arabic and sometimes I did in Hebrew, we didn`t translate but we
kept the rythem. It was fun and well received
Avner Haramati
Jerusalem
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From: "Corbaz Catherine" <c.corbaz at hispeed.ch>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: Question - bilingual opening
> Hello, everybody,
> Last year i did it in french with a German speaking colleague, who also
> facilitates OST. It went on well, maybe a bit long. With my colleague,
> the one who speaking walked , then stop,went at the rim of the circle and
> the other one went on. so everyone say it in its own words, walking
> rhythm, etc. We were not translating.
>
> I also have done it alternatively speaking french and German, which was
> conformable.
>
> Your idea to have to circles, seems to me interesting, however it means
> that they group speaking french should not be to small regarding the
> other group. Worth a try.
>
> I'll keep your idea or next opportunity.
>
> Catherine Corbaz
> Facilitation & Forum ouvert
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>
> Le 24 mai 07 à 14:28, Communications Esther Matte a écrit :
>
>> 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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