Pinpoint

[Jon Harvey]

Raffi

The book to get hold of is "The World of Moderation" by Michele Neuland -
published by Neuland. 

ISBN 3-931403-11-4

Happy pinpointing / metaplanning

I use post-it notelets a lot - which I pinched from the principles of
pinpoint - which I was introduced to many years ago by a client.

Atb

Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael M
Pannwitz
Sent: 29 June 2008 11:55
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Pinpoint


Dear Raffi,
this was one of the first participatory approaches developed in Germany 
in the context of the 1968 spirit, called "MetaPlan" Method. It is 
amazing how widely it has been and is being used in Germany in all sorts 
of organisations from business to labor unions. Its probably the best 
known and most widely spread method for structured work with groups.
The municipal planning department of Berlin introduced it to the public 
administration in the early seventies and a bunch of us church connected 
types introduced it in that field. People like Florian Fischer know the 
initiators of this methodology.
In the meantime, a whole industry (Neuland) has been founded on this 
methodology providing the pincards, pins, pinwalls etc. that you also 
see being used by os-facilitators in this realm. And a big training 
industry is still around training facilitators for this approach. 
Various large corporations have internal departments for applying this 
approach in planning processes.
There are a number of books, one in English describing the method in 
detail...and a large number of studies.
Here is a website
> http://www.metaplan.com/
that also gives you the Metaplan businesses in Germany, France and USA.

If you look at the Learning Curve of Marvin Weisbord it is in the phase 
"Groups solve problems" , facilitated but with the facilitator not 
getting involved in the content.

As I look through the internet, I see a vast amount of stuff, 
links...have fun.

Greetings from Berlin
mmp


Raffi Aftandelian wrote:
> Colleagues,
> 
> Has anyone ever worked with the approach, Pinpoint facilitation? I heard
it
> of it for the first time in Moscow this spring.
> 
> The person, a corporate trainer, claimed it was *more* effective than OST,
> especially with groups up to 40 people.
> 
> Very little in the way of information on the Pinpoint website and yet some
> people are using it apparently with good results...
> 
> appreciatively,
> raffi
> 
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