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color=#000080>We fully understand that OS people see visual facilitators as
addendum, while we see OS as one of several possibilities to work with people.
That might be the base for mutual understanding.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#000080>Your idea, that people themselves should draw, picks up the
discussion you and me had at the lake of Starnberg I think in 1998. The
idea is brilliant. Since then we developed several methods of drawing actions,
like 800 union delegates drawing 72 pictures simultaneously in a conference in
Vienna. Like our friend David Sibbet we work with templates, like Nacy Margulies
with mind maps, we combine story telling with images, espacially in a group
exercise we call "Story Painting", a group split into writers and drawers
inventing a story, with an observer of the group process and a story teller at
the end. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#000080>Like all with other methods, it is worth while to follow some
rules, not just to jump into drawing, and to honor the results. At BMW in Munich
there hang pictures in the corridors 300 IT engineers drew 5 years ago - before
the meeting they thought of throwing the results away immediately
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color=#000080>Philosophers and Brain scientists tell us, that there is nothing
like an objective perception of the world, everybody forms his/her picture of
it. So some (most) people transfer this picture into words and talk, and the
listener transforms the words into his pictures, and some work directly with
pictures as a means of communication ....</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#000080>Bur I think in OS people are used to communicate with
words, and more often are totally busy with their topics, so if possible some
external visualizer might be helpful to increase the
understanding.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>Mit freundlichen
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080>best regards</FONT></DIV>
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color=#000080>Reinhard</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>Von:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <B>Im Auftrag von </B>Harrison
Owen<BR><B>Gesendet:</B> Freitag, 11. August 2006 22:31<BR><B>An:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Betreff:</B> Re: Working with visual
artists at an Open Space<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>One caution about visual artists and other such addendum.
There is no question that visual reflection of the conversation can add a
powerful dimension to the understanding of all the people. And the caution is --
the visual artist must be part of the conversation and not The Show. The good
ones I know manage this juggling act very well -- which makes them good. But
there are some others, and a serious conversation prior to the gathering
about "place and role" can be very helpful. For me the real art is the people
and the conversation. Everything else is just a supporting player. The same
would go for technology. Over the years I have been approached by any
number of bright techies who have created what they think would be the "perfect"
addition to the OS bag of tricks. In one case the folks were peddling "Computer
Based Decision Making." Everything passed through a computer by way of large
screens. They were incensed when I declined their offer -- but I pointed out to
them that I thought it was entirely possible that the folks could handle a
conversation face-to-face. :-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>One of the early folks in the "Visual Facilitation" arena,
David Sibbet, is an old friend. He may in fact have been the originator,
but in any event he created something he called Group Graphics. In fairness, the
product was marvelous -- but I did tease him a bit by suggesting that if he
really wanted to do Group Graphics, then everybody should get in the act -- in
whatever way they felt useful. </FONT> <FONT face=Arial>And actually in the
First International Symposium for Organization Transformation we did just that.
All 250 delegates were offered crayons, paints, magic markers, whatever and
confronted by yards and yards of butcher paper. At the time nobody had a clue
what Organization Transformation was and even less ability to talk about it
intelligently -- so we drew it. Collectively. Seemed to work.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Harrison</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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