SV: [OSLIST] Different Intelligencies Was: Honouring Each Other

[Thomas Herrmann]

Hi Arthur

Thanks for your comments, on my comments.

In order to teach the different components of The Genuine Contact Program,
while naming it as part of the program + use the workbooks developed, you
need to go through the program and finish the “train the trainer” which is
the 5th component of the capacity building trainings.  

 

The different methods and tools we use are not protected from being used at
all – I “give them away” all the time. Some tools are copyrighted in order
to protect them, so we can use them for sure in the future. These tools can
be used by others too, given the proper acknowledgment.

 

Regarding Whole Person Process Facilitation – it is not Open Space
Technology or a derivative of it. It is a different meeting method. My
opinion is that it works from the same value system so, to me, it’s a great
complementary method which I for example use in all of my trainings and in
almost all my meetings that are not facilitated using OST. 

 

No matter what method I use when I work with a group – I mean that some
space is opened – that was what I meant by the way I phrased my words. OST
opens it up wiiide while other methods may open a tiny space only...
Actually most “traditional” meetings do, according to my opinion!

 

If you want to learn more about the program I invite you to visit
www.genuinecontact.net <http://www.genuinecontact.net/>  

Warm regards

Thomas Herrmann

 

 

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Från: Artur Silva [mailto:arturfsilva at yahoo.com] 
Skickat: den 1 december 2009 14:06
Till: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU; thomas at openspaceconsulting.com
Ämne: Re: [OSLIST] Different Intelligencies Was: Honouring Each Other

 


Thomas:

 

If I understood well, the Genuine Contact Program, is a certification
Program, that IMHO is the opposite of the "free/open nature” of OST, as it
is stated in the User’s Guide, and elsewhere (it is a non proprietary, non
certifiable Methodology, that can be used by anyone with “a good head and a
good heart" (even if some experience helps
). 

 

But that is not the main point.

 

 In your statement below, when you said that “I don’t “open the space” as
much/in the same way as when using OST. Almost all of those meetings I use
Whole Person Process Facilitation " can we say that we are still speaking of
OST or is it some derivative (probably good, I am not questioning that) but
not OST?

 

Thanks for your clarification on that

 

Artur

 

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--- On Sun, 11/29/09, Thomas Herrmann <thomas at openspaceconsulting.com>
wrote:

 

(...)

 

Even if I use Open Space Technology a lot, most meetings I facilitate I
don’t “open the space” as much/in the same way as when using OST. Almost all
of those meetings I use Whole Person Process Facilitation (a meeting method
developed by Birgitt Williams and part of The Genuine Contact(TM) Program).
Then I always make sure to plan the meeting to at least give people of the
most basic different learning styles the opportunity to learn their
preferred way, for at least a small part of the meeting.

 

(...)

 


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