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<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
class=350584817-13092003>coming back from a hot summer in our house in
tuscany, where cleaning the space underneath the olive trees was more
important than methods, back to the PC amongst 570 other mails I found your
discussion about Visual Facilitators in open space sessions. </SPAN></FONT>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=350584817-13092003>A
bit late I want to add some remarks. For me the two so far went together
beautifully. The visual results show to everybody what was going on, also
where she/he did not take part, show the larger picture including all the
contributions, as a partipant from VW Coaching once told me .</SPAN></FONT>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=350584817-13092003>I
saw you describing your different experiences, and I liked it.</SPAN></FONT>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=350584817-13092003>I
saw what Florian Fischer wrote:</SPAN></FONT>
<P>my own thinking about visualizing the process of something like open space
<BR>is diveded into »yes its serving« and »no its not serving« <BR>yes,
because it makes the people smile, its good decoration, it looks well. <BR>no,
because a picture fixes the phantasie to the special view of the visualizer
<BR>a word opens a lot of pictures, a picture is a picture is a
picture. <FONT color=#0000ff face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
class=350584817-13092003> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
class=350584817-13092003>Florian, I am surprised. I remember well the
story you told to the Vienna Conference. You went into a park to relax,
overheard some men in heavy discussions, went nearer and made some rough
drawings which you hang on the columns of a little temple. The men came,
saw the drawings, found their discussion in the drawings and by that found a
solution. They asked you, if you could come every weekend to visualize their
regular discussions and even offered you to pay the flight from Berlin to
Vienna (did I get it right?).</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=350584817-13092003>I
will never forget this story. I am convinced, that your drawings were neither
good decoration nor looked especially well. They were true, and they touched
the men.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=350584817-13092003>We
talk about our work, to find out what it is what we are doing. Why we are
touching people, like you. We come to the conclusion, that to get in touch
with our little pictures is something like creation itself. To understand them
with the heart is a creative act. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
class=350584817-13092003>Margaret Wheatley says: "If we want peoples'
intelligence and support, we must welcome them as co-creators. People only
support what they create!"</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=350584817-13092003>We
assume, that understanding the pictures is a creative co-creation, and a
strong base for peoples' support for the process. More often stronger than
words. Stronger than methods. An access to something that Christopher
Alexander calls "The quality with no name".</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
class=350584817-13092003>Normally we accompany some moderators in their work,
i.e. OS. We ask ourselves, if sometimes the pictures really need a method, or
if we couldn't work with people purely with pictures, they drawing, we
drawing, with a lot of trust words seldomly initiate. But that would open
another dialogue ...</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
class=350584817-13092003>Love</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
class=350584817-13092003>Reinhard</SPAN></FONT></P><FONT color=#0000ff
face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=350584817-13092003>
<P><FONT size=2>VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE<BR>Kuchenmueller &
Dr.Stifel<BR><BR>Munich Germany<BR><BR>Tel: +49-89-202 447 48<BR><BR><A
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