FacilitationCamp 2010 - What Happened?
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Day 1 Friday 20 August 2010
Open Space 1 - With timing close to atomic precision on paper, but Bermuda Triangle Time in practice, OS 1 was skipped :)
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Open Space 2, 11.00 - 11.30 am
Badger, David Pinto, 'Letterbox Protocol'
Present - Susie, Philip, Clare, Greta, Annie, Lycia
- Help self-organization
- Deepening of group
- New rules (eg. "3-word rule")
- Inclusive to all
- You end up wanting to know more from others
- Pauses, rhythm, listening
- Establish more principles
Open Space 2, 11.00 - 11.30 am
Rhino, Annette, 'Storytelling'
Present - Emma, Ayako, Elizabeth, Sarah, Joe, Lauren
- Becoming the user
- Alternatives to ice breakers
- Relating to people you already know
- Building a story together
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Open Space 3 11.30 - 1.00pm
Dolphin, Elizabeth McDonnell em44*AT*tutor.open.ac.uk , 'Personal Sharing With Strangers'
Present - Alan, Vincent, Wendy
* Exploring how to facilitate making deep connections
- visuals as derailing negative emotions & connections & patterns of language
- immersing in new environments: free gathering
- getting below superficial buzz, below scientific and technical explanations, below world views, paradigms and values, to MYTHS, METAPHORS, VISUALS, that capture intuitive & emotional understandings (CAUSAL LAYERED ANALYSIS)
- mapping the system & information flows through it: system structure creates system behaviour
- identify a champion / White Knight, who can grant permission for process AND champion its results
- manage fears: people project fears onto OTHER, then push back violently against perceived fear
- supporting space where people can approach conversations with each other from a new vantage point - pictures & visuals can offer that new perspective
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Open Space 3 11.30 - 1.00 pm
Badger, Greta Irving, 'What is your deepest intention?"
Present - Francois, Philip, Annie Quick, Emma, Johnnie
- Guided meditation - deepest intentions
- Group sharing
- Relationship and facilitation
OBSERVATIONS: connection, multiple perspectives, creative energy, embodiment, knowing what I want
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Open Space 3, 11.30 - 1.00 pm
Leopard, Ayisha, ayisha*AT*theconversationagency.co.uk, 'What is facilitation? A divergent brainstorm'
Present - Emily, Lauren, Clara, Susie, Sarah
- 40-min dialogue (facilitated philosophical inquiry)
Q. Are we all facilitators?
KEY WORDS: safe space - acknowledgment of what is often unspoken
balance - self-disclosure/acknowledgment
participation = in + at = dance
intention - in service of group balanced with my needs
build confidence - skillful decisions; the skill of holding a space as well as knowing how to become part of the group
- 20-min dialogue
Q. How do we facilitate ourselves the deep mutual support we need?
- Who do we feel sense of belonging with?
- The idea of being in something together
- Finding the common ground
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Open Space 3, 11.30 - 1.00 pm
Rhino, David (Action Cycle) happy
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Open Space 4, 2.00 - 2.40 pm
Worm, Ian Drysdale, idrysdale*AT*gmail.com, 'Facilitating Prototyping'
- Discussed process of prototyping services.
- Tuttle club as a prototype of people meeting and a tron game..!
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Open Space 5, 2.20 - 2.40 pm
Dolphin, Annette, 'Facilitating Social Business'
Present - Clara, Greta, Mamading, Wendy
- Annette introduced Social Business
- Mamading talked about London Creative Labs
- Annette's interested in LCL
- Greta wants to know how Annette/LCL works
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Open Space 5, 2.20 - 2.40 pm
Badger, Nate, 'Breathing'
- We learned how to breathe, as we did when we were in the womb.
- Can be used for relaxation or to be energized.
- This type of breathing massage
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Open Space 6, 2.40 - 3.00 pm
Badger, Alan Jackson, 'Technology for Facilitation'
Present - David, Emily, Nate, Vincent
- How to use virtual without compromising physical facilitation
- "Remote whiteboard"
- "Confluence model"
- "Basecamp"
- "Asynchronous consensus"
- "Automated dotmocracy"
QUOTE: "Minimize the virtual, maximize the physical"
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Open Space 6, 2.40 - 3.00 pm
Fish, Wendy Schultz, wendy*AT*infinitefutures.com
Present - Lycia, Ayisha, Margie, Annie
1) What recording / graphic recording contributes to group process:
- Increases active / accurate listening
- Validates each contribution / contributor
- Short-circuits 'broken record' syndrome
- Acts as convenient double check of discussion content against articulated expectations, meeting goals
- Enables efficient review, easy catch-up of latecomers
*See chapter on Recorder in Doyle & Strauss, 'How to Make Meetings Work'
2) Getting visual
- Full-on graphic recording - simultaneous cartooning of ideas under discussion (a rare and expensive skill)
- But everyone can draw swoops, lines, stick figures, circles, squares, rectangles, triangles - your body will help (use elbow joint as protractor, use muscle memory, encourage drawing)
- Embed summary points in simple geometric icons (eg. circle = target, so list goals there, list actions in arrow heading to centre of target)
- Use old photographs, postcards, ads to add more sophisticated and emotionally evocative visuals as a collage to your simpler hand-drawn graphics - ask participants to jot down the insights and stories they associate with photos or illustrations they've chosen
*See David Sibbet, Graphic Keyboard at Grove Consultants
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Open Space 7, 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Rhino, Sue Bell, 'Power Listening'
Present - Emma, Daria
- A power listening experience
*Ask if you want to know more
Day 2 Saturday 21 August 2010
