experimentation and evolutionary discoveries in our practice...

[RosaZ]

Hi all,

This list has been fairly quiet for some time... I apologize for my part in that!

I thought some of you might be interested in the following update, regarding some of the work I've been doing.
I've been experimenting with some slightly different formats for teaching DF...

here's some excerpts from what I sent in a recent e-mail to practitioners in Germany:

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This first document is a harvest from a one-day experiential facilitation workshop in Asheville. It was a pilot format, as I usually lead three-day workshops -- and, it went very well. You are welcome to share the document, and if anyone is interested, I'm happy to offer more detail about the format.

This second document is the harvest from a mini Creative Insight Council in Durham, that I facilitated concurrently with a four-day facilitation workshop. The participants in the workshop had a day together before the CIC started, in a one-day Listening workshop. (This was also a pilot, and it also went very well.) Then they observed the CIC, and after that, they had another day and a half after the CIC where they were practicing facilitation in small groups.

The culminating event was the open meeting for the community, where the CIC shared their outcomes. We then hosted a modified World Cafe for participants to take the conversation further. During the small group meetings, the workshop participants were practicing their active listening and recording skills, by offering a light facilitation to the small groups. It worked very well...

We did not have a lot of participants that evening, but we had enough to host four small groups for the Cafe part, and after about 20 minutes we asked people to shift into new clusters so that they could be in conversations with different people. To conclude the café part, we formed a large circle for sharing out (this was needed due to the configuration of the room.)

Then we closed by inviting people to self-select into topic groups (modified Open Space) to take their conversations further. It worked quite well... people stayed and stayed, and didn't want to leave, which for me is always a sign of a good meeting! Again, you are welcome to share this document (and my description here) with anyone who may be interested.

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any of you who would like to stay in greater touch, are welcome to join my e-mail newsletter list. I send them out only about once a month, sometimes a bit more often, and you can always unsubscribe if and when you change your mind. It's not a discussion group, just a newsletter where I occasionally send out information about other inspiring work that is relevant to our field (much as Bruce did with his post on Scharmer's article), and also send out info about my upcoming workshops.

And, I will also be making a greater effort to share some of that here, as well... in the hopes that it might inspire some conversation!

with all best wishes,

Rosa

[Lynda Moe]

Thanks for sharing Rosa. :)

[k]

sorry to be so late responding to your email, Rosa.  My computer is crashed again (3rd time this year!) and I am just over it.  so I am way, way behind in emails.  and probably will stay that way for awhile.  I hope you are well! 

love,

k 

Kay Joyner    

www.wakingupwell.com

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Subject: [DF] experimentation and evolutionary discoveries in our practice...

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