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Hi Christine,<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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:<br>
<br>
<b>Embrace Dissonance and Difference:</b><br>
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.<br>
<br>
<b>Playfulness:</b><br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
You can download the cards for free: <a
href="http://groupworksdeck.org/"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://groupworksdeck.org/">http://groupworksdeck.org/</a><br>
</a><br>
Harold<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/22/16 11:27 AM, christine koehler
via OSList wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Friends of Open Space
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<div>We are very pleased to announce the release in French of
the deck of cards you may know: Group Pattern langage. </div>
<div>The Group pattern langage was created by a group of US
facilitators who gave it to the world with a creative common
licence ( <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://groupworksdeck.org/">website</a> here) </div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>We've created a website dedicated to the cards : <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://dynamiquesdegroupe.com/">dynamiques-de-groupe.com</a> </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>The cards are coming out in France and Switzerland next
Friday , and will be available in many bookstores for a few
weeks.</div>
<div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Those beautiful cards show the many patterns we, as
facilitators, can see when a group works at its best.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>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 ? </div>
<div><br>
<div><br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>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.<br>
</div>
<div>Christine </div>
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