WOSonOS Berlin - the " " session

Toke Paludan Møller toke at interchange.dk
Fri May 14 23:20:05 PDT 2010


Beautiful Lisa

Sounds like returning home together before creating what you hear and  
feel was needed....

Wishing you all a wonderful last Day

Missed this one for other commitments

With kindness

Toke

Sendt fra min iPhone

Den 15/05/2010 kl. 07.19 skrev Lisa Heft <lisaheft at openingspace.net>:

> Dear colleagues -
>
> It is Saturday morning in Berlin and I look forward to a lovely  
> breakfast with Gail West (Taiwan), Brendan McKeague (Australia) and  
> Matilda Leyser (England), then off to the WOSonOS for the final day  
> of the event.  I just wanted to share with you all that I so enjoyed  
> a group I hosted yesterday at the WOSonOS (It will not be in the  
> Book of Proceedings because we decided not to stress out about the  
> Friday deadline for handing notes in).
>
> I held up a blank piece of paper as my topic sign, selected a time  
> and space and placed the sign on the Agenda Wall.
>
> People gathered and sat in companionable silence in a circle.
>
> Then I wrote some thoughts on cards such as:
>
> ___
>
> Choices
>
> Sit in silence
>
> Communicate in silence
>
> Experience an activity that can be done to help people reflect in  
> silence *before* discussion
>
> ___
>
> Other cards said:
>
> Documentation?
>
> Someone to note the time?
>
> (or something like that)
>
> ___
>
> In silence, we 'discussed' and agreed upon the agenda (the time card  
> was tossed away into the air, the documentation was my camera)
> We agreed to move from the sit-in-silence to the 'communicate in  
> silence' portion of our session.
>
> Much mutual appreciation, twinkling eyes and laughter, exploring  
> little movements together, a bit of running around for some of our  
> members, some putting of things on heads, some sitting laps and a  
> high portion of silliness followed.
>
> Then we shifted into the 'an activity that can be done to help  
> people reflect in silence before discussion' portion of our agenda.
>
> I guided folks (in silence, which is not usually how I explain the  
> guidelines) a reflective activity I have designed - and some of you  
> have helped me field test this activity in past WOSonOS and OSonOSs  
> - which invites participants to answer four questions by drawing  
> their responses (no text allowed).  The process is called 'Graphic  
> Window'.  After reflection and drawing in response to four  
> questions, we spoke again, going around the circle and sharing what  
> each person drew and what they reflected upon as they heard each of  
> the four questions.
>
> ___
>
> It was all so lovely and nutritious - especially to have silence in  
> the midst of a high-talk environment such as an Open Space.
> I bow (silently) with (silent) thanks to my fellow explorers,
>
> Lisa
>
>
> Lisa Heft
> Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
> Opening Space
> lisaheft at openingspace.net
> www.openingspace.net
>
>
>
>
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