Vad MS har med facilitering att göra

Vad MS har med facilitering att göra

Organisationen Project for Passion anordnade i våras en stor dag med temat The Future of Meetings.

Jag pratade – såklart – en del om hur viktigt det är att våga tänka om (Flip it), växla formen för lärande (Mix it) och att dela all kunskap med andras perspektiv (Share it).

Som ett exempel tog jag historien om den fantastiske läkare som gav mig beskedet ”Du har MS” för tjugo år sedan. Hela texten får du här. Läs och fundera:

On September 12 2003 I found myself sitting in a meeting room.  One of many rooms in a long corridor. My guess is the room was about 12 square meters. There was one window, without any curtains framing it and without  flowers on the window sill.

The walls were white or maybe with a splash of yellow. But I remember them as quite white. There were no paintings on the wall… although there was a poster of the limbic system.

There were four chairs in the room, all occupied. I was placed in one. My mother had sat down in the second one, my father in the third. The fourth one was placed on the other side of a table or should I say a desk.

On this named desk there was a computer, piles of paper and a lamp. The lamp was turned off since this meeting took place at around noon.

The fourth chair held doctor John Hanko, a doctor specialized in neurological disorders.

The meeting began with John leaning slightly forward, putting his hands together and started talking:

“Yes, I have looked at the results. You have Multiple Sclerosis.”

He had quite a lot against him, in this meeting. He had the overall lack of humanity in the room. And  the result that he had to deliver to the 28 year old woman sitting opposite him.

But what doctor John Hanko’s meeting did have, was:
a clear purpose
a belief that we were invited for a reason – a sense of belonging
a set goal for all of us to be able to be as present as possible

The answer laid in the facilitation of the meeting, not in the meeting itself.