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March of this year I facilitated a one day Open Space for a large aged care
facility in Adelaide. The issue was around their residents moving into a new
building and the question posed was ‘How do we make the most of our
opportunity? Incidentally this is a core question which I often use.
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has flowed from this event. The point for now is that my colleague, Cate Burke,
captured the tenor of the conversing in four graphic recordings. She has the
most remarkable ability, in my opinion, to distill a conversation in imagery and
words. What words she does note are not verbatim and so is not a mind
map; they are a synopsis of what she hears. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Comic Sans MS">Cate's recordings A2 size, laminated and mounted on
boards, are on prominent display in the new building. Reportedly they are a
constant trigger of conversation among people who attended the OST event and
others. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Comic Sans MS">Seemingly too they have contributed to the substantial
cultural shift to ‘all voices being heard’ which is under way in this
organization. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">While
it is wonderful to have a skilled graphic recordist as a colleague this is not
necessary. In my experience people love to do their own pictorial cum written
recording of their ideas. And the products of the participants and of the
graphic recordist can complement each other nicely, as I will report shortly.
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Today
Cate and I are doing a song and dance at a day long Open Space for a project
called the Aldinga Arts EcoVillage. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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theme is the same as that mentioned above. And we will be taking lots of
‘butchers’ paper – plus our digital camera – to capture how a group of
artists committed to learning how to live harmoniously in an intentional
community record their passion and responsibility.<SPAN
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