[OSList] New: Group Pattern langage in French

Wed Mar 23 15:44:33 PDT 2016

Hi everyone,

By mistake I answered only to Christine. I paste below my original response and a follow-up response when she asked more information about it.

Hi Christine and others,Among other uses, one particularly interesting way of applying the cards was in Collective Story Harvesting processes. When in workshops about facilitation, leadership or similar topics, using the patterns as lens in a CSH makes the learning come both ways: through the story and through the lens. With some patterns some creativity needs to be applied so it can be universal enough to fit a story, but usually it works amazingly well.Warmly,Vini, from Brazil

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Hi Christine,oh, that was a mistake indeed. I am going to send the e-mail again with the list cc'ed in a moment.In the process I run, I spread the cards over the ground or on a table and ask participants to select cards over some criteria (e.g. patterns that are really important to you, patterns that you miss in the groups you participate, patterns that you need to practice, etc.). Usually I ask for 3 cards, and then I ask them to narrow it down to 1 card. That is a way of doing something like a Participatory Needs Assessment, which means that it enables me as a facilitator to see what are the "hot topics" in the room. It usually helps me to understand better the group and how I can be of service.About CSH, I ask participants to hold the card they've chosen and their lens to listen to the story. If there are questions on how to adapt the card to a lens, we resolve this prior to listening to the story. For example, card "All grist for the mill" could mean the points on the story where people have been flexible, adaptable, or have used what could be considered bad/sad moment to their learning or to their advantage in the end. As all the patterns are fractals, usually you can use their meaning as a lens. Except from this, I run the CSH as usual (storytelling, reflecting back, how was it for the teller, how was it for the listeners, and in the case of more than one storytelling circle, a meta-harvest where similars lenses talk usually in a world-café format). This brings a wonderful learning experience both through the story and personal connection but also on applying the pattern as a lens in real-life situations.Does this bring more clarity to you?Any other way I can be of service?And yes, I am an AoH practioneer :-)All the best,Vini
To: chris.alice.koehler at gmail.com; oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:08:40 -0600
Subject: Re: [OSList] New: Group Pattern langage in French
From: oslist at lists.openspacetech.org

    Hi Christine,

    I very much enjoy the GroupWorks card deck and use it frequently to
    help me understand, work with, and improve group dynamics when I
    teach at Montana Code School, when I set up Open Space events, and
    when I coach agile teams.

    I've also used them to help me with group dynamics on the OSList.
    Tricia Chirumbole and I were on the OSHotline at least a year ago
    and the two cards that seemed to be the most helpful were the
    following:

    Embrace Dissonance and Difference:

    Encourage your group to honour contradictory viewpoints, sitting
    with the uncertainty and ambiguity this brings. Acknowledge all
    perspectives as equally valid and explore them fully as needed,
    especially when tensions are high and agreement seems far away.

    Playfulness:

    Invite light-hearted and high-spirited interaction to exercise mind,
    senses, imagination, and body, to engender creativity, and deepen
    relationships. Playfullness may be evoked through structured but fun
    ways to engage relevant topics, or restorative breaks that allow
    laughter free reign, or may simply show up as humour.

    The GroupWorks card deck was an open source project based on the
    design pattern language from legendary architect Christopher
    Alexander which also inspired the popular Design Patterns for object
    oriented software development.

    You can download the cards for free: http://groupworksdeck.org/

        Harold

    On 3/22/16 11:27 AM, christine koehler
      via OSList wrote:

      Dear Friends of Open Space

        We are very pleased to announce the release in French of
          the deck of cards you may know: Group Pattern langage. 
        The Group pattern langage was created by a group of US
          facilitators who gave it to the world with a creative common
          licence ( website here) 
        With 2 colleagues, Jeremie from Switzerland and Juan-Carlos
          from Canada, we translated it into French and found an editor
          who prints it and distribute it.
        We've created a website dedicated to the cards : dynamiques-de-groupe.com 

        The cards are coming out in France and Switzerland next
          Friday , and will be available in many bookstores for a few
          weeks.

          Those beautiful cards show the many patterns we, as
            facilitators, can see when a group works at its best.

          There are many different ways to use those cards, and I'd
            love to hear how you use it in your work. Would you share
            this with me ? 

        I'd wish all groups in the world would connect and use
          those patterns to  have conversations and work together so
          that terrible events like the one we experienced again today
          in Bruxelles does not happen again.

        Christine 

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