These are all the third Monday of the month, except December (2nd Monday).
Topics we're planning include: Clean Lego; More Clean Space; Emergent Knowledge.
]]>Welcome to Sean, Cheryl and Liz, who joined us for the first time this month. Our 'first-timers' meeting before the main meeting gave us a good opportunity to say hello and highlight some aspects of Clean Language as well as what happens in the group. We hope you enjoyed the evening and will come again!
Our topic for the evening was feedback, and we spent about 40 minutes discussing the kind of feedback we like to receive, as well as the practicalities of giving feedback. Our aim was to draw up some guidelines for the group for this and future meetings.
]]>First-timers to the group this month were Morven (all the way from London) and Jonathan - Welcome! Our topic was Creativity, and we started the meeting by asking "What is Creativity?"
]]>We welcomed Walter and Helen to the group this month - all the way from Bracknell! After admiring the view from the balcony, they were treated to a demonstration during the 'new member' part of the meeting. When everyone else arrived, we settled down to our main activity for the evening, which revolved around 'metaphor maps'.
]]>We welcomed Von and Jan to the group for the first time this month - all the way from Dorset. Together with Dave, that meant we had three people from Dorset! Our new format - with newcomers arriving early for a short introduction - appeared to work well. Marian has produced a 'Practice Group' booklet which explains a bit about the group and about Clean Language, including the main questions. Von and Jan had done a one-day introduction so were already familiar with the questions, so we spent the time getting to know each other and discussing specific questions they had.
The topic for the main part of the evening was 'scaling'.
]]>This month, we welcomed Teresa to the group for the first time, and it was also the first trial of our new format. The idea is that people who are new to Clean Language (and those who want a quick refresher) arrive at 7pm for a half-hour introduction. This is followed by a short break, during which everyone else arrives for a prompt start at 7.45pm.
]]>We welcomed Robin and John to the group for the first time last night, and rather than asking them what they would like to add to our group metaphor (as we have been doing), we started again with a 'clean sheet' for the new year.
In order to create a new metaphor, we used Caitlin Walker and Nancy Doyle's Metaphors @ work process. This involved us working in two small groups to elicit - and develop, using Clean questions - our individual metaphors for the kind of group we would like in 2009. As well as those present, Nigel and Monica had sent their ideas, too.
]]>Welcome to Mark, Rob, Anthony and Graham, who all came a long to the group for the first time this month. We started, as usual, by attempting to explain our group metaphor to the newcomers. This made us realise that it's got a bit unruly and so we will start a new one in January - using a Clean Language process for groups, devised by Caitlin Walker and Nancy Doyle.
Jenny Heath led the meeting. She wanted to have a go at cleaning up an NLP process devised by Gemma Bailey, of People Building.
]]>Welcome to Dawn, Lyn and Phil who joined us for the first time last night. We started by having everyone remind the group of their metaphor for 'the kind of group I want to belong to' and then newcomers (and some who we seem to have missed) added their ideas to our metaphor map.
]]>Welcome to Carol, fresh from the recent Less is More training. As usual, we showed her our "This is the kind of group we want to belong to" metaphor and invited Carol to add to it. She added a stetch of a person being held in the palm of a hand (for support) and being tickled (for laughter). Carol said she also wants to learn through getting feedback from group members.
The topic for this meeting was suggested by Cathy, who was unable to be with us due to a nasty virus. We hope you are better soon, Cathy. Bad weather and bad traffic kept others away, so we had fewer members than usual. However, we decided to keep to Cathy's topic: creating methods for remembering the Clean Language questions...
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