<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I love that picture! I still use my own version of it as an icon when I am sketching something for a “planning meeting.”<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for the memories!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 3, 2018, at 10:13 AM, Birgitt Williams via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear friends and colleagues,<div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am attaching the picture. Artist is Virginia Burt, landscape architect.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And if you wish to learn Whole Person Process Facilitation as a great complimentary method to OST, I have an <a href="http://www.dalarinternational.com/services/training/whole-person-process-facilitation/" class="">online workshop coming up </a> 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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Warmly,</div><div class="">Birgitt</div></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""><span class=""> </span></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""><span class=""> </span></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""><span class=""> </span></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">Birgitt Williams<span class=""></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">Closing the Gap Between Potential and Results</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">Services </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px" class=""><a href="http://www.dalarinternational.com/services/" class="">http://www.dalarinternational.com/services/</a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">Leadership & Organizational Development Training, h</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px" class="">ttp://<a href="http://www.dalarinternational.com/services/training/" class="">www.dalarinternational.com/services/training/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">Author, President & Senior
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