Zoom, 2 April 2020 – Twenty participants gather online for the second Perspectivity Writeshop. Purpose: learn to write and write to learn together. Will the guided collective writing approach, that created \u2018magic in the room\u2019 last year, also work online? That\u2019s our challenge this time.<\/p>\n
Due to Corona, we had little choice, so we decided to run it as an experiment. Also because of Corona, some participants had cancelled. Kids at home, emerging work-demands. But also new participants joined, from the Netherlands, the Middle East and as far as New-Zealand. Very exciting to gather such a diverse group.<\/p>\n
Guided writing We used the same flow as last year. Including a check-in, exploring and reflecting on the central topic (power), free writing – with a pen on a piece of paper! \u2013 and step by step fleshing out the story. A short-cycled method, with lots of sharing in small groups. \u2018Beam me up Scotty\u2019, became the running gag, as we sent off subgroups in break-out rooms for yet another exchange or feedback round.<\/p>\n Reflections \u201cI have a bad habit; I want to go fast. I learned that it is much better to go slow and reflect.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe method gave me a lot of courage. That it is possible to write something in a reasonable amount of time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe power I believe in most is the power daring to be vulnerable. I think we achieved this. Writing is one of the most vulnerable things we do. It was very safe. Impressive. Instead of spoken words, we used written words.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThanks to Corona, doing it online, also has a value. We were at our own homes, desks. Breakouts, connecting from our comfort zones. It is easier for me.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou created something really powerful, a story in itself.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Prologue: The bonfire More info<\/strong><\/p>\n Zoom, 2 April 2020 – Twenty participants gather online for the second Perspectivity Writeshop. Purpose: learn to write and write to learn together. Will the guided collective writing approach, that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":16402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[333],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nieuws"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perspectivity.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perspectivity.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perspectivity.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectivity.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectivity.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/perspectivity.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectivity.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perspectivity.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectivity.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perspectivity.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>The Perspectivity Writeshop is a two-day guided writing process in which we together share, explore, analyse, structure and deepen stories of change in complexity. This year\u2019s theme was on the role of power in system change.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>And although it was intense, it worked out. In the final reflection round on Friday afternoon, everybody shared their lessons learned. An impression of what people experienced:<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Zoom, 1 May 2020 \u2013 It\u2019s raining outside. I cuddle up with my coffee on the couch for the virtual bonfire, curiously waiting for the stories to be shared. One by one the Writeshop participants read their story out loud. I am moved. We\u2019re all moved. The stories are very different \u2013 in topic, scope, place and style of writing. What they all have in common is that they take us along on a personal journey of the practitioner, with struggles and highlights, to deal with power issues in complex situations. I feel the vulnerability that was mentioned in the reflection round. In the corner of my screen I see the fire lit up in Elien\u2019s fireplace.<\/p>\n\n