Introductions and outreach methodologies
June 22, 2005Hi everyone,
It was an amazing experience sharing a few days with you last week. Thanks to all for the kind and supportive words, regarding the planning and facilitation of the session. In reality, it is incredible what happens when a group of people come together to reflect on something with varied and diverse experience and perspectives.
Since the Learning Circle session, I have not had much time to reflect on the context of the session, despite it being part of my daily life. This afternoon, Jessie Sutherland will be facilitating a public conversation on Aboriginal-Canada reconciliation (http://univcafe.concordia.ca/html/event.html#reconciliation). It should be interesting to host it in a park, with a picnic premise.
Another point of interest relates to the outreach that was pursued for this event. Perhaps this will be of interest. For this event, and increasingly throughout the program, we have been developing partnerships with a range of organisations. This time around, it has involved Worldview Strategies, the Centre de Paix de Montreal, the Wampum Centre and others. The outreach was conducted through the usual cafe and email networks, but also through some of the networks of the different partners. Each of these networks is a different (though sometimes overlapping) community. In the past, the most diverse and well-attended conversations involved this type of outreach, thus attracting people who are specifically interested and involved in the issues, while still keeping the conversations open to the general public. Back to the in-group/out-group outreach, both of which I think are very important to ’setting the table’, as Dave Beckwith (from the Needmor Foundation - US-Based) mentionned and empashised the other day, or preparing the ground/soil, as critically important in the development process…
I have never used the Blog as a methodology and medium of writing. It seems interesting, if it is used. Mike, thank you for setting this up and encouraging its use.
Eric
Hi everyone,
I am finally back on Vancouver Island. I appreciated that so many of you came out to Parc Lafontaine conversation on reconciliation. For those that weren’t there, someone from the media was there and began to take over the conversation so it was more like an interview than a public conversation for the first part of the evening. Since then, I have been thinking about how that unfolded and I would love to hear thoughts from others about thier experience in handling the media during public conversations.
Hope everyone is well.
Jessie
Comment by Jessie Sutherland — June 29, 2005 @ 2:00 pm
Salut Mike et tous les autres
Pour refleter ton dernier commentaire, j’ecris en francais. En fait mon commentaire est pour Jessie (Hi Girlie Girl)
Je n’ai pas vraiment d’experience sur la maniere appropriee de traiter les medias mais j’ai du feed-back sur la soiree de mercredi dernier, si ça t’interesse tu peux aller voir mon commentaire sur le message de Sandra. On s’en est deja parle, mais j’ai quelques idees par rapport aux limites a mettre aux medias. J’imagine que d’autres ont aussi des idees la-dessus. J’espere que tu es chez toi en train de te reposer devant le lac et que tu es bien,
affectueusement,
Marie-Pierre
Comment by Administrator — June 30, 2005 @ 2:48 am
Merci Marie-Pierre,
I went to the other comment too and like your observations!
Je penses que ces reflections sont super important pour comment dealer avec le media dans des conversations publique. I learned a lot in the process. J’esperes quand tu vas faire ton serie je serais a Montreal au moin pour une des sessions!!!
abrazo y bisous,
jessie
Comment by Jessie Sutherland — July 5, 2005 @ 6:39 pm