Thanks Kari for your thoughts and suggestions.
How would you deal then with a co-facilitator who has a very clear position on
issues that are being tackled and who runs the risk of compromising neutrality
of the team of facilitators?
Will take a look at the Amsterdam Musical Lecture on Open Space soon. This
seems interesting...
Carms
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. -- Henry
Miller
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From: Kári Gunnarsson <[email protected]>
To: Carmela Ariza <[email protected]>; World wide Open Space Technology
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Sent: Friday, 19 April 2013, 7:35
Subject: Re: [OSList] What does neutrality of a facilitator mean in Open Space?
Hi Carmela
I am perhaps not the best on neutrality, I am easily swept off my feet in
passion for this or that, and usually I like to marvel in the novelty for a
short while.
I don't think there is any one truth that we can speak here. There is some big
notion of neutrality in the academia, somehow born from the abstract thinking
of the scientific methought. There is this belief that if I am to close too or
worse - one of the locals, then I must be to bias to speak any truth.
But what I have found is that if I am the owner or manager of the item in
question, then I might have some previews thoughts and dreams that I may try to
enforce it in the process with no regards to the underlying reality of the
matter, if given the possibility.
Also if this person is someone I am trying to please, I may be to co-dependent
towards any power play that he might use for the same reasons.
There is always the spiritual work of begin willing to be present and holding
the space open by keeping a check on my charisma while the discussions take
place.
As soon as I try to force the outcome by closing the space, then the space is
no longer open. I sacrifice the productivity by forcing my own will of outcome
upon the group. The only way for me to not do this is simply to not have a way
about how the outcome should be. If I am not willing to not have a way, then I
have some personal work to do by cheeking my motives and fears and let go of
them.
If this is not possible, then I would suggest a twinning, where you find
someone not in our department to do your open space and then do same for them.
But I think that I am allowed to care deeply and have an opinion as long as my
personal homework is done and I am spiritually fit to not have a way, and to
let them have their own experience.
I also have an experience where a small group where half of the group was
familiar with Open Space, we decided to hold the space as a group and
participate in our own open space. There was no external sponsor or external
facilitator, but we managed to hold the space open because we cared.
I like to end with an Amsterdam Musical lecture on Open Space:
http://youtu.be/BgcomPDIUHY
On 18 April 2013 22:40, Carmela Ariza <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear OST friends,
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>I would like to hear your thoughts on neutrality of facilitators in OST. Below
>are some specific questions...
>
>
>What does it mean in practice?
>If you are an interested party or have a stake in the outcomes, how must you
>facilitate?
>What are the ways to maintain neutrality (towards participants and
>topic/outcomes) even if the facilitator is also interested in the quality of
>the participation and also the outcomes?
>
>
>Your inputs/insights will be highly appreciated - especially sharing of
>experiences.
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>Carms
>
>If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. -- Henry
>Miller
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