[OSList] Opening Space in mixed/low literacy community

[chris.corrigan at gmail.com]

John Engle has written extensively on this with his experience in Haiti over the years.

I have used his version of an oral market place, whereby participants declare the conversations they want to have and stand in a place in the room.  After all the places are filled, people choose which conversation to be a part of.  At the end of the first round, the group reconvenes and new sessions are declared.  

Harvesting of the sessions can be orally as well, perhaps with someone who can write well taking notes form the summaries.  Alternatively, people can be videoed or recorded telling the story of what happened in their session and a collective video can be made of the results.

Chris

On 2013-10-03, at 4:15 PM, Kim Willing <kim.willing at tassie.net.au> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I wonder if anyone has any advice or experience in opening space with a community of people in which literacy levels are mixed.  Of course wanting to provide equal opportunity for people to enter the circle with agenda topics and not sure how to do it at this stage.  Perhaps provide a scribe in the middle for EVERYONE? Don't want to make it obvious who can and can't write their topic.  And, how to make it easy for people to select sessions from the agenda wall?
> 
> I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
> 
> With thanks,
> 
> Kim.
> 
> Kim Willing
> Groundswell
> 0428399798
> http://au.linkedin.com/pub/kim-willing/14/17a/4b3/
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