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KYIV-MOSCOW LIVE. MARCH 2014
This is a Skype live linkup, filmed at the start of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis by our colleagues from both countries. This was the time, when political events caught many old friends by surprise, dividing them and paving the way for growing misunderstanding. Despite this schism, our colleagues found a bridge to the understanding of one another. They organized this linkup.
The live linkup was facilitated by Drs. Max and Ellen Schupbach (Switzerland/USA). Ellen was moderating from Kiev, Max – from Moscow.
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Facilitation (from Eng. facilitate -. To assist, facilitate, promote). It can be used as psycological instrument for community building, conflict resolurion, decision making and other group tasks. Facilitator makes a process easier by helping group members become aware of the feelings they hold for one another, assisting a group in thinking deeply about its assumptions, beliefs, and values and about its systemic processes. He or she can also form a group of people into a collaborative team supporting consensus and uses a range of processes to enable the group to accomplish their tasks.
Worldwork is a group facilitation method developed by Dr. Arnold Mindell and colleagues. It helps to resolve problems and enrich community experience. Worldwork facilitators listen to the land, do inner work, practice communication skills involving role consciousness, signal and rank awareness. Worldwork has been successfully applied to the analysis of, and work with multicultural and multileveled groups, Aboriginal communities, universities, small and large international organizations, city hot spots, in corporations and world conflict zones.

Open forums are public gatherings, aimed at the development of social dialogue, an attempt to answer polarizing questions, an aim to unite different people and viewpoints. This space is meant for people to listen, agree or disagree, to support direct non-violent interaction. Open forums direct our attention to the necessity of establishing relationships between people, who belong to opposing sides of a problem; this can be done through understanding the experience of the other and thus – to decrease mutual hostilities. The methodology of open forums was developed in detail by the American PhD Arnold Mindell. The facilitator’s main focus is to help the world know itself better, not to seek change.
Open forums are some of the most potent and ancient forms of dialogue. It is a free platform between “truth” and “untruth”, the “right” and “wrong”, the “bad” and “the good”, “us” and “the enemy”, a platform where everyone involved can share his or her thoughts, emotions, pain, aggression, suppression, joy, anger, gratitude. All of this will naturally allow the group to express diverse opinions and voices, to find points of tension and polarization, go through the conflicts to become closer to one another and move on in life. Open forums allow the groups to undertake effective inner work. And of course, moderating an open forum requires special mastery from the facilitator.
To find out more about conducting open forums, we advise you read A. Mindell’s book THE DEEP DEMOCRACY OF OPEN FORUMS.
Kyiv-Moscow Live. March 2014 Group prosses facilitated by Drs. Max and Ellen Schupbach.
Interview with Dr. Max Schupbach.
29 min. March 2014.
People:
Max Schupbach
Ellen Schupbach

Shooting location:
Moscow, Kiev
Date:
2014
Facilitation (from the English facilitate — to help, facilitate, promote). Facilitation differs from management in that its method is non-directive and does not go beyond the self-organization of the system. Facilitation, as a psychological technique, helps to reveal in the group and the client the natural abilities that they use unconsciously.
Open forums are public meetings aimed at developing public dialogue and addressing issues that cause polarization, creating a community by bringing together different people and points of view.

This space is created in order to listen, agree and disagree, and support direct nonviolent interactions between participants. Open forums draw attention to the need for relationships between people with opposing viewpoints to increase understanding of others ' experiences and reduce hostility in society.
The methodology for facilitating open forums was developed in detail by Arnold Mindell, a Doctor of psychology from the USA. The facilitator's focus is on realizing that helping the world is about learning about yourself, not seeking change.
Open forums are one of the most powerful forms of dialogue that have come from ancient times. This is a free space between "truth" and "untruth", "right" and "wrong", "bad" and "good", "our" and "enemy", where each person involved has the opportunity to express their thoughts and emotions, express their pain, aggression, depression, joy, anger, gratitude is everything that will allow the group to express different voices and opinions, discover hot spots, clarify polarities, overcome conflicts, get closer to each other and move on. Open forums are internal work for groups. Maintaining an open forum requires a special skill of the moderator.
You can read about how to prepare and conduct open forums in A. Mindell's book "DEEP DEMOCRACY OF OPEN FORUMS".