[OSList] back full circle about 'planning meeting'

Wed Apr 4 08:24:02 PDT 2018

Dear Jeroen,
oh my....I apologize about mis-remembering your name...I remembered the
great conversations and the points that you made. Names are very important.
Thank you for speaking up.

I too get back to points I have been at before. I like the image of the
spiral, knowing that I sometimes feel like I am going up, and sometimes
down.

My son David explained the logic tree to me in a simple way. I said to him
that I got the point of going up the tree as I worked my way 'upward'. And
then I asked what happened when I got to the tips of the branches. He said
that I take all of the knowledge and start up the tree again, this time
incorporating the knowledge. I like this image as it implies visiting the
same branch again, and yet also needing to start at the bottom.

Warmly,
Birgitt

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 10:03 AM Jeroen Vermeer via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Hi Birgitt,
>
>
>
> Small correction, my name is Jeroen, not Joergen 😉. And as for things to
> come full circle. Isn’t this how life works? In my own personal development
> at least, I constantly return to a point I have been before, only to hope I
> reached a ‘next level’ in the spiral… 😉
>
>
>
> Thanks once again for your entertaining and informative workshop!
>
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Jeroen Vermeer
>
>
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> *Van:* OSList <oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org> *Namens *Birgitt
> Williams via OSList
> *Verzonden:* dinsdag 3 april 2018 19:13
> *Aan:* OS list <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
> *CC:* Birgitt Williams <birgitt at dalarinternational.com>
> *Onderwerp:* [OSList] back full circle about 'planning meeting'
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>
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> Dear friends and colleagues,
>
> Some of you joined us for the online workshop about Planning for Highly
> Participatory Meetings. I am an advocate of a well done 'planning' meeting
> to assist our clients develop clarity about what they are inviting people
> to...and thus to provide sufficient information to those being invited to
> make an informed choice about whether the meeting is something that they
> with to attend.
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> This method of planning is suitable for conversations with the sponsoring
> group for an Open Space Technology meeting, a meeting using Whole Person
> Process Facilitation, or other participatory meetings such as World Cafe.
>
>
>
> Now, let me get to the part of this story that is about going back full
> circle about the planning meeting. A delightful man Joergen from the
> Netherlands said, what you are teaching here is not actually about a
> planning meeting....it would be better if you called it 'preparing the
> ground'. He went on to say that during the meeting the ground was being
> prepared with the leaders for a carefully considered meeting AND the ground
> was being prepared for making the most of the outcomes of the meeting.
>
>
>
> I laughed at myself. Why in the world had I ever started calling this a
> 'planning meeting'??? In my early days with Open Space Technology and Whole
> Person Process Facilitation, I had adopted a concept that originally came
> from Harrison about  'preparing the field'. Way back then (yes, some
> decades ago) I had a friend draw a picture of 'preparing the field' and I
> used this picture in my original workbooks as a necessary step. Thanks to
> Joergen, I am back full circle to a 'preparing the field' meeting.
>
>
>
> I am attaching the picture. Artist is Virginia Burt, landscape architect.
>
>
>
> And if you wish to learn Whole Person Process Facilitation as a great
> complimentary method to OST, I have an online workshop coming up
> <http://www.dalarinternational.com/services/training/whole-person-process-facilitation/> beginning
> next Friday and taking place for three consecutive Fridays. It is a great
> method to use when carrying out a 'preparing the field' meeting, and for
> any other time that a more guided approach than OST is needed...yet
> retaining the same principles and values as OST.
>
>
>
> Warmly,
>
> Birgitt
>
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Birgitt Williams

Closing the Gap Between Potential and Results

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Leadership & Organizational Development Training, http://
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Author, President & Senior Consultant of Dalar International Consultancy,
Inc.

Co-founder: Genuine Contact program

Co-founder of the Extraordinary Leadership Network
http://www.extraordinaryleadershipnetwork.com

Co-owner of the Genuine Contact Co-owners Group Ltd.
http://www.genuinecontact.net

*Supporting leadership development for leading in a culture requiring
agility and flexibility in a performance environment of constant change.*

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