OPEN FORUM Background Paper Collection -- Paper 2
Please
note the original background paper from 1998 is under review and needs
updating.
Please
come back soon as I feel the matrix of formats and descriptors might be
helpful. 
When Attention Matters and People are more than just Talkers
Some Concerns about Attention Time; Listening
and Agendas
I though about alternative formats a
lot. The topic is not just about the space or time available, it is about the ambience
and context, the number of people and what kind of people!
And thinking about people is not
just about participants and their profession, but what kind of participants!
Stakeholders, Drivers, Actors, Risk
takers, Observers, People in Power who invite and pay an event?, Surprise
guests, honorary guest?
A you can see, such different people
have their different expectations, and assumptions, their codes, traditions,
patterns, traditions, rituals, media, senses, intelligences, … and ways to show
their consent or discontent, have their tactics and strategies to achieve and
perform towards their ends…and have their ways so show if they agree and
disagree, how to draw conclusions and reach agreements.
Topology and situation… layout see original German schema to be added
here a.s.a.p.
I invite you to look at the election
circus, we did as CHANCE 2000 in the circus tent, or how we got to together
with different traditions, different generations, using different languages (at
the same event),…
Please visit these outcomes or what
we call side-events, as often multiple formats should be used to match the
potential of the people and the times, or use parallel tracks, or different
locations to allow change to happen. We have documented here some events to
give you an idea on the width of possible formats and occasions we have
facilitated change.
Please also understand that dialog
has to with trust and sharing. We did dialogues or salons in Charterhouse
formats, so no output or citations are allowed in order to allow a trusted flow
of internal or confidential information. Not everything should be public, if
you consider negotiations, or mediations, peace missions, or any kind of
keeping information in suspense.
Please see also the collection of
Anthony Judge, van Heuvel,… and what XY
collected at the around dialogue and leadership!
Governance and Dialogues is another
matter. Please see these theses done when presenting the Club of Rome’s
Capacity Report in 1995, or the work around a future Agora, an Agora for the 21st
Century. Please see Background paper 1 which looks into the laws behind
successful deliberations and conversations, and follow the links.
Please also see the processes to
outline the context of issues under discussion
Or the Consultative Process. All was
collected for Robert Jungk's 80ies birthday – who understood, helped with the
Database of Social Innovations (Nicolas Albery, Flemming Funch, … and the Fuschl
and Asilomar exercises around international systems organization like ISSS and
IFSR.
Last not least I need to mention and
acknowledge the groundbreaking work, of Bohm, Buber, Schleiermacher, H **** and
have to confess that the tradition of salons run my ladies, or how a circle is
done in other traditions needs to be mentioned as well. Please see StorySpace
and Dialog ! *** and the work of Anthony Judge and his DaZiBao Processes and
his SCHOOL OF IGNORANCE – unforgettable memories start floating … or a major
breakthrough for the magic roundtables when we did it for the Summer school
over one month in Berlin in 1995, hoping to get an International Peace
University in connection with the UNU in Tokyo and Costa Rica going.
See also GAKKAI – Lady… and all the other work done at Vanderbilt, MIT and the
bunch of organizations and NGOs facilitating and change towards other forms of
dialogue and decision cultures.
Please click at some of the logos
below.
Best and thanks
Heiner Benking Farah Lenser
ADD:
Dialoge Vanderbilt
Storyspace dialoge
Open Space !!
See also Sherryl
etc… Primer… Toolbook ! and and and
This is work in
progress, please come back and maybe enjoy this little graph.
FM Facilities Management (space time process)
Here original GERMAN version plus translation:
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FORUM Background Paper Collection -- Paper 2