Founder of The Grove International Consultants, David Sibbet outlines some of his thoughts and insights about how groups of people can better communicate and learn helped by visual practitioners.
Forthcoming a book by David on this topic.
In the meantime enjoy the video, enjoy yourself!
Eleder
BM31_ BILBAO: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGY: the power of SELF-ORGANIZATION
Thursday, February 18, 2010
I WISH XMIND.... (some ideas about improving XMind,... or, maybe, things I should learn about it)
This is a post in process
XMind is my favorite mind mapping sotware for two main reasons...
- It's free software. I'm not at all a "techie", but the arguments I've heard from free-software people and mainly intuition (I know some of those people and my gut says, "yes, those ones are right") convince me. I had tried FreeMind before, but didn't success using it. One day I gave a presentation about mind mapping and urban transformation and had the luck to meet Feel there. Some days later he introduced me to XMind and, delighted with it, I left Mind Manager behind.
- It offers an easy way to upload an download mind maps. You can take a look at some of the ones I did lately and download them here.
I'll say that even it has a "PRO" paid version, I use the standard one.
Having used it for around a year and having used other mind mapping softwares, there are some points I wish XMind accomplihed,... or (maybe it was me who didn't use it properly) I wish I learnt to use better...
Here is my list:
1. GIVE MY IMAGES BACK, PLEASE!
Common and biggest trouble with XMind. You work hard fulling the branches with images, which is a key for good mind mapping, and suddenly, all of them disappear. No clue about ther reason. One day I researched a bit about it and saw that it is a common problem...
2. KEEPING TRACK OF THE IMAGES?
It would be wonderful if when we are typing any word, the program suggested to insert images that have before been used to represent this word. For example, we type PEOPLE and the images we've used before for this word are offrered to select and click for embedding.
3. EDIT-FIND
4. INTEGRATION...
MAILS to MIND MAP
5. INTERNET: MIND MEISTER has a very good quality. Anybody can browse throughout the MM (expanding and closing branches). Watch it here.
6. PASTING text divided in paragraphs as separate NOTES. I know no software with this command. It would be very useful for translations from text to mind map. You copy the text divided by paragraphs, you paste it as Notes of brother-branches and you select a key-word to name each branch.
7. CALL-OUT topics, paste as callout,...
8. PASTING an external image
9. PASTE INTO THE NOTES: Also useful for other SWs. I wish a possibility to paste directly in the NOTES of a set of branches. Example: I select from any other program 7 phrases. I copy-paste them to XMind, but I want them to go straight into the NOTE part of the branches, so as I can then define the key word that expresses the idea and write it over the branch.
10. FORMAT-COPY and PASTE (the "brush" icon of other programs)
Best wishes from Bilbao,
Eleder
BM31_ BILBAO: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
MIND MAPPING OPEN SPACE?
Just opened a conversation in the OST NING World Community's place that Lisa Heft leads on "documenting dialogue". You can read it in the next lines and can follow the conversation through this link.A big thanks to Karen Winters (www.karenwinters.com www.karensblog.com) for the smart painting
As far as I'm quite unexperienced with OS (I started in year 2009 and have opened space just twice with small groups) I feel most times quite awkward to do more than read and listen from the experts...
But may be I could add some questions and open new conversation spaces, I hope!
Something of this could happen with a topic I can't keep out of my mind: I'm kind of a mind-mapping addict. This is the best way I know to work with written ideas. I almost can't do it any other way (and feel comfortable). I find mind mapping quicker and clearer, it enables creativity, it can be a powerful team builder, it's fun... and it's all the time opening space (due to the radiant structure)!
Do you know about experiences on documenting open spaces through mind maps?
I guess that a small mind-mapping training before an OS meeting could help those who are not used to this tool and expand powerfully the documenting with awesome results...
What do you think about it?
Best wishes from Bilbao,
Eleder
ps: This video shows how one can easily mind map
Eleder
BM31_ BILBAO: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity
Twitter: @Eleder_BM
Friday, February 5, 2010
SOME IDEAS ON EDUCATION
I recently wrote those lines in the interesting NING community created around Open Space Technology, answering to Noel's topic "Transforming classrooms into open spaces for learning". Now I'm organizing a 20 hour workshop for 6-12 years olds' teachers on "STUDENTS' COMPETENCES"...
EVERY IDEA WILL BE VERY WELCOME...
EVERY IDEA WILL BE VERY WELCOME...
Hello everybody!
Noel, I think that most productive work on education will be the work we do on re-inventing all the system (of course, as people remain in the mainstream now, improving and opening the system may also be something worth doing). Those are some of my ideas about it:
1. Parents (or "family" adults) should live as simply (avoiding materialistic goals- houses, cars, expensive holidays,...) and honestly (guessing and doing the work they can do best and harms least) as they can, so as they can take co-responsibility of their children's education
2. Parents (or "family" adults) should take actively part in the organization of local -at best, in a walking/byking distance- educating groups apart from the official schools (unless they are part of the tiny exception of schools in which their full participation is welcome)
3. In this education model children would develop their abilities at their own pace and, as they grow, they would decide the fields in which they want to learn more
4. Small children would just be provided a nurturing environment. Physically it would be in a wide green area. Emotionally, their needs would be answered as well as possible (by their own parents at the start and detaching from them little by little as they feel sure and loved around other people)
5. The concepts of curriculum, ages for achieving different stages of knowledge, exams,... would change radically. Children themselves tend to ask for the teaching of what they "need" to know, so it is much easier than all the hyper-specialised stuff that supposedely guides most of our schools
6. As they grow, children would start contributing in real world jobs to do, learning and doing all the time. Society would be eager to receive teenagers for some hours everyday to educate them and learn from their freshness.
There are many interesting writings and experiences on this field all over the world. I know little about it. Near BIlbao a small group of parents started something with some 7 small children last year, I'll research about it soon.
Which are the most interesting experiences you know, have experienced or read/heard about?
best wishes from Bilbao,
At preparing the workshop mentioned I dropped on this video -and failed once and again to embed it :-)- that suggests interesting ways of living with children...
Eleder
BM31_ BILBAO: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity
TWITTER: Eleder_BM
UBUNTU explained by NELSON MANDELA
I'm just an Ubuntu user, but I'm delighted about all these people making such a great experience possible.
Harrison Owen says that everything has always been, is and will be self-organized. Ubuntu may be just one more proof of this statement.
I discovered this video thanks to a message from Jo Toepfer in the OSLIST (mail list for those interested in Open Space Technology).
Eleder
BM31_ BILBAO: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity
TWITTER: Eleder_BM
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
SETH GODIN on CURIOSITY (a video by NICK ASKEW)
'curiosity' from Nic Askew on Vimeo.
Recently, after some years having lost his track, I had the pleasure to drop on Nick Askew and started to follow him on Twitter. With the re-discovery, I feel kind of "back home" watching some of his pieces I missed last years.
In this one Seth Godin speaks about "curiosity vs fundamentalism" and says interesting things about the school years' influence on our curiosity.
Nick's sage words and relaxing guitar music make the video worth a pause. Enjoy it!
Eleder
BM31_ BILBAO: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity
Twitter: @Eleder_BM
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