Circle Practice

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Comment by Waltraud HELLER on September 22, 2011 at 6:24am

circle at work in our organisation... check-in to a stakehodler meeting (with international organisations, government representatives, and NGOs)

 

FRA stakeholder meeting Sept2011

Comment by Franziska Musche on September 21, 2011 at 3:44pm

dear friends,

I share with you a circle poem I wrote for evening entertainment. I hope you see how it is about circle. English language opens a wide space with the words be and being here. Just to enjoy for who likes to play with words:

 

We are those

who we are

intended to be

 

as we gather

we are those

who we are

intended to be

 

we were intended to be

calling forth the being

trusting that being

 

that is not yet

but is to come

that intended us to be

 

who we are.

 

Nice to be here with you. Wal I have great respect how you take the circle into business. Good!    franziska

 

i dont manage to get my photo in here...

Comment by daniela terrile on September 21, 2011 at 11:39am

yes trust and love them

they will think to be accepted and be included and they will do the miracle

Comment by Waltraud HELLER on September 21, 2011 at 11:36am

thanks - hm that's what we thought but so far we are still waiting for the miracle :-) but maybe we want too much too quickly, as we would like to have a permanet room set up in circle and world café - but we do now have a management decision since yesterday that if we communicate in advance for which stakeholder meetings we need this setup, it will be done. (but the original promise was a permanet room... and so this means we don't have a set up for all of our internal circles etc.)

 

So for the time being we keep collecting these wonderfully positive feedback forms from stakeholders :-) and for the rest we decided to "let things happen". I will report back when the miracle happens...

 

and thanks for raising the point to simply ask them questions - you are right the solution will come from them.

 

take care,

Wal

Comment by daniela terrile on September 21, 2011 at 11:21am

ciao Wal

you do not have to convince the manag but just put in front of the situation and give energies to them and propose a different solution

management adores to be the first to implement something new and I guess you have power to shift your energy to the mind and heart of your management ..; just trust, just ask them to think of a possible solution, a miracle and you will be astonished of the answer

they already know that rows are set for a debate and circle for a dialogue

so the solution is already there, maybe just to be provocative and stimulate creativity start drawing circle on the table or on the flipchart

they will come up wth that solution: a wonderful work of co-creation together

 

they will start seeing in a different way; we cannot see what we do not have in our heart

 

love

Comment by Waltraud HELLER on September 21, 2011 at 3:55am

Dear All, greetings form Vienna where I seem to be in circles every day - some circles across Europe like this one, some in my workplace, some in my family...

 

At work (EU Fundamental Rights Agency) we have started doing our stakeholder meetings in a "participatory" way since June this year - feedback from participants is exciting; scepticism from within the house puts some strain on our little group... how do you all deal with this type of resistance? We chose to just keep going low key, we think success will be our biggest ally...

 

Last week we had a one-and-a-half-day meeting with government officials from all 27 EU Member States. We decided to preceed it by an informal meeting (all were invited, as many as 15 showed up!) which we did in circle and world café; main topic was how our orgaisation could better connect with the Member State level and serve their needs better; i.e. how to have an impact and promote change more effecitvely. Apart from that session being really successful, we felt that this cirlce then continued holding the main session. Main session was less interactive, but had some elements as well. Before the meeting there had been quite some scepticism (even among ourselves) how government officials would react to that type of meeting - evaluation forms give great feedback :-)

 

Next question: any good, successful practices on how to convince your organisation on a different physical room setup for meetings? :-)

 

best regards,

Wal

 

 

Las

Comment by Kirsi Joenpolvi on September 20, 2011 at 4:33pm

Thank you Ria, for organizing this group, I will share more when I am all settled, things seem to be moving so fast at the moment. But good to know we are connected in this virtual group the roots of which are REAL!

Comment by Kirsi Joenpolvi on September 20, 2011 at 4:30pm

Hi Mara, So good to see your beautiful face here, too!

Comment by Katharine Weinmann on September 20, 2011 at 3:14pm

Hello

I've just joined...not yet to share an experience as I am right now so very deep in a reculturing at work with words "before, beneath and beyond" my experiences.  I am touched by your stories below.  Thank you, Ria,

for this opening as well.

 

Comment by Mara Senese on September 20, 2011 at 1:59pm

Daniella,

I love your circle in the organic park.  So creative and symbolic!  Also love being connected in this circle on AoH.

Love, Mara

 

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