CONTACT and permissions

Contact

Don Dunoon welcomes contact from people interested in OBREAU, the thinking, reflection and dialogue resources on this site, or the broader practice of working thoughtfully and constructively under pressure.

You might want to:

  • Ask a question or share feedback about one of the resources;
  • Explore using the resources within your organisation, program or teaching;
  • Discuss a possible workshop, demonstration or collaboration;
  • Clarify what is permitted under the usage arrangements below;
  • Request a facilitation guide; or
  • Simply make contact about an area of shared interest.

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If you don’t currently have an organisational affiliation, simply enter Independent, Retired, Student, or whatever description fits.

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Requesting a facilitation guide

Facilitation guides are under development and will be made available individually rather than as a pack, to encourage active experimentation. If requesting one of the guides, please indicate which resource interests you:

The facilitation guide for Dialogue with OBREAU is available only to experienced users of OBREAU, as this method requires developed skills with each of the OBREAU practices.

Permissions and Use of the Resources

An open approach to use

Use of OBREAU and the reflection and dialogue practices on this site is warmly encouraged within the Creative Commons licence and the boundaries outlined on this page. (The Creative Commons licence details are here: Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence.)

Teachers, educators and researchers are welcome to use the materials in teaching, learning and research, and to share and publish their experiences with appropriate attribution.

Independent consultants, coaches and facilitators may draw on OBREAU and its practices in their professional work, provided they do not present themselves or their services as officially authorised, accredited or certified OBREAU.

Internal OD, leadership, L&D and HR practitioners may similarly use and adapt the practices within their organisations as part of their normal developmental and facilitation work.

In practical terms, the Creative Commons licensing arrangement outlined above means you are welcome to:

  • Use the resources in your own work;
  • Share them with colleagues;
  • Use them in internal meetings, workshops, education and development activities;
  • Adapt them to fit your particular context; and
  • Build on the ideas.

You do not need to contact Don Dunoon for permission for ordinary use of this kind.

Permission is generally only needed where use moves beyond these boundaries – for example, where the aim is to substantially repackage or commercialise OBREAU materials, or where endorsement, accreditation or certification is implied.

This is distinct from the commercial programs and services described under Working Together on this site, which represent particular applications of OBREAU developed as part of Don Dunoon’s professional practice. These applications are regarded as proprietary methods of Don Dunoon and New Futures Pty Ltd, and are not included within the permissible Creative Commons uses above.

Don Dunoon would be very interested to hear about what you try and what you learn. Feedback from use in different settings can help the continued development of the resources.

The ‘Read More’ section following provides fuller guidance on the licensing arrangements and examples.

Acknowledging the source

Where you use or adapt a resource, please acknowledge its source. For example:

Adapted from [name of resource], developed by Don Dunoon as part of the OBREAU™ approach. Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. Available from effectiveunderpressure.com.

If you have substantially changed a resource, please make that clear. This helps distinguish your adaptation from the original version.

Use in paid and commercial contexts

The fact that someone is paid for their work, or works within an organisation or educational setting that charges fees, does not in itself mean that permission is required.

As outlined above, independent consultants, coaches and facilitators may draw on OBREAU resources and practices as part of their professional work. Teachers, educators and researchers may similarly use them within teaching, learning and research, including in institutions that charge fees. Ordinary use of this kind does not require prior permission, provided the source is appropriately acknowledged and the use does not imply authorisation, accreditation, certification or endorsement.

Permission should be sought where OBREAU or its resources become – or there is an intention for them to become – a substantial part of what is itself being commercially offered. Examples could include where resources are substantially repackaged or sold, an OBREAU-based program or course is marketed as a commercial offering, or the OBREAU name or materials are used in a way that could suggest a proprietary service or authorised relationship.

This does not necessarily mean that I will refuse such use or seek to charge a fee. It simply means that we should discuss what is proposed and, where appropriate, agree on an arrangement.

The same applies where use develops – or there is an intention to develop use – into something significantly broader, such as delivery across multiple organisations, external partnerships, widespread distribution, accreditation or another form of substantial institutional adoption.

Internal organisational use

Organisations are encouraged to experiment with the resources internally.

You do not need my ongoing involvement just to use the resources with colleagues, incorporate them into internal conversations or development activities, or adapt them for your own non-commercial internal purposes, subject to the Creative Commons conditions.

If use begins to extend beyond your organisation – or you are considering such an extension – for example through delivery to other organisations, external partnerships, commercial offerings based substantially on OBREAU, accreditation or large-scale external distribution, please contact me before proceeding so that we can clarify an appropriate arrangement.

I want to make ordinary internal use easy rather than tightly controlled, while retaining the ability to discuss how OBREAU is represented when the intended use is broader, commercial or more formalised.

The OBREAU name

The Creative Commons licence applies to the copyright material in the resources. It does not transfer ownership of the OBREAU™ name or identity.

The OBREAU name is trademark-protected so that people can have some confidence about what is – and is not – being presented as OBREAU.

This is not intended to prevent people from using, discussing, sharing or adapting the resources. You are asked to identify the source of material and to say that you have used or adapted an OBREAU resource.

What I ask is that the name not be used in a way that suggests an adaptation, service, program or person has been officially endorsed, authorised, accredited or certified by me when that is not the case.

In particular, permission is required before offering services described as:

official OBREAU training;

OBREAU accreditation or certification;

certification as an OBREAU facilitator or practitioner; or

another service using the OBREAU name in a way that suggests formal authorisation.

Protecting the name in this limited way helps keep the resources themselves relatively open.

 

Facilitation guides

More detailed facilitation guides for the five reflection and dialogue practices are under development and will be available on request rather than as unrestricted downloads.

They are intended to help people who have a genuine interest in trying the practices thoughtfully and appropriately. Any particular conditions applying to a guide will be made clear when it is supplied.

Receiving a facilitation guide does not in itself confer accreditation, certification or authority to offer official OBREAU training.

A note for users in the United States

On this site, trademark is used in the broad sense of a mark identifying the source of goods or services. In the United States, the expression “service mark” may apply where the mark identifies services. References here to the OBREAU trademark should be understood as also implying service mark, in a US context.

 

Unsure about a particular use?

If you are uncertain whether something you have in mind is covered by these arrangements, please ask.

Use the contact form above and briefly describe what you would like to do. I aim to make reasonable use and experimentation straightforward while protecting the integrity of the OBREAU name and avoiding confusion about what is officially authorised.