A Pattern Language for Bringing Life to Meetings and Other Gatherings
The Group Pattern Language Project writes:
We are delighted to announce that, after three and a half years’ work by over two dozen dedicated people (including many readers of this list), the Group Works card deck (subtitle: A Pattern Language for Bringing Life to Meetings and Other Gatherings) is now printed, stocked and ready for orders and shipments! Yay team! The professionally-designed, full-colour, beautifully-illustrated 91-card deck is boxed with an accompanying booklet and five-panel fold-out key card, and sells for $25 (or $20 on orders of 10 or more decks).
- Buy decks here
- Download a free PDF of the entire deck and booklet here
- Visit our new website and learn more about how the deck was produced here
- An iPhone app is also available (in beta) — more information here
The next step is, of course, distributing and marketing the deck. To that end, we invite you to a two-day Marketing and Next Steps meeting at Dave Pollard’s house on Bowen Island BC (a short ferry from West Vancouver) January 22-23. This meeting will immediately follow the Core Group meeting and anyone who wants to participate in getting the deck out into the world, or helping design the next stage of work on improving group process, is welcome. A draft agenda is up on the project wiki here. Please send a message to dave.pollard@gmail.com or reply to the list if you are able and willing to attend, and we will forward further logistical details.
If you are unable to attend the Bowen meeting but are interested in helping to market the deck, we will shortly be posting sample wording for mailings and brochures you can send out, so stay tuned (feel free to produce your own if you prefer, and if so please share them with the list).
As we proudly introduce our first product to the world, we would be remiss if we failed to acknowledge all the people who made this amazing accomplishment possible (including you, dear readers). In particular we thank: The Core Team (Tree Bressen, Dave Pollard, Sue Woehrlin, Daniel Lindenberger), and the Fantastic Supporting Cast (Jeremy Lightsmith, Janet Hager, John Abbe, Ethan McCutchen, Lewis Hoffman, Vine Acorn, Tom Atlee, Ted Ernst, Jim Newcomer, Dan Doherty, Kathy McGrenera, Kaliya Hamlin, Bill Aal, Chris Corrigan, Paxus Calta, Fergus McLean, Maggie Moore Alexander, Ward Cunningham, Aimee Lindenberger, Amy Lenzo, Nancy White, Ria Baeck, Sara Dent, Margo Adair, Theodor Arnason, Don Benson, Tim Bonneman, Juanita Brown, brush, Richard Burg, Rabea Chaudhary, Paul Cienfuegos, Raines Cohen, Jay Cross, Benjamin Aaron Degenhart, Lareina DePompeo, Mark Dilley, LisaMarie DiVincent, Fellowship for Intentional Community, Dorit Fromm, Ken Gillgren, Nancy Glock-Grueneich, Karen Hixson, Peggy Holman, Ken Homer, Rebecca Hyman, Nuriya Janss, Lindsey Kerr, Christy Lee-Engel, Jenny Leis, John Kelly, Carol MacKinnon, DeAnna Martin, Iris McGinnis, Betsy Morris, Pennie O’Grady, Paloma Pavel, Larry Pennings, Lise Rein & Dan Parker, Anita Rosasco, Nick Routledge, Doug Schuler, Dawn Smith, Helen Spector, Mark Stiffler, Lynne Swift, Marc Tobin, Brandon WilliamsCraig, and all the photographers and illustrators for the pattern images. Finally, we thank the community of practitioners and enthusiasts who responded to our preliminary deck in workshops, conferences and meetings while the deck was being developed and tested, and, not least, you, as you take this creation out into the world. (For more information on the wonderful contributions of these people, please check out our news release or the booklet contained with the cards.)
