Chris--
Yup, got that on my Kindle! One of my favorites!
:- Doug.
On 04/26/2013 12:58 PM, Chris Corrigan wrote:
Here is a little book I wrote on this topic a number of years ago:
http://archive.org/details/TheTaoOfHoldingSpace
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:16 AM, doug <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
MMP and friends--
Thank you for this dive into the present and invisible and expanding
of time and space.
Although I have been doing OST for a decade, this is a practice I
have yet to perfect. Often I feel at the end of an OS that I was not
really there because I was facilitating. That is, I cannot tell
someone else what went on or what the results were. (Sure I can
count issues and assess the depth of the closing circle, but that is
not the same as having been a participant. It is different when at
an OSonOS I can simply be a participant.)
So can you and others say some more about how you practice being
present and invisible, what it feels like to expand time and space?
Is it for you more than picking up coffee cups?
:- Doug.
On 04/26/2013 04:31 AM, Michael M Pannwitz wrote:
Dear Carms,
basically, there is no such thing as a "neutral" facilitator.
As far as I can remember, and thats a few decades back, potential
clients often ask for a "neutral" facilitation or consultation.
Seems to me that the way to tackle this is to ask myself what I
am not
"neutral" about. And that, I found out, varies from case to case and
from situation to situation.
So, when I am facilitating I find it helpful to discover what I
do not
want to be "neutral" about and focus on that particular thing.
When facilitating an Open Space Technology process I focus on being
"present and invisible", "expanding time and space" (for the
forces of
selforganisation to do its thing).
This I find is more than a full time job... any other interests that
crop up (getting involved in issues participants post or paying
attention to a co-facilitator...) simply have no space. The
moment they
do press for space and my attention I know I am no longer really
paying
attention to my task as facilitator.
In practice this means that I am in desperate need for a team in the
background that takes care of all the things I love to meddle
with and
control so that I can focus... which sounds simple but aint easy.
A co-facilitator who has clear positions on issues and is
absorbed by
such stuff does not compromise "neutrality" of the team. He exerts
control and that is from my experience a surefire way to reduce
or even
close space.
So, how to deal with a co-facilitator of the kind you describe?
It depends, of course.
One way to avoid this destraction is to simply strike the
position of
co-facilitator.
Have a great day
mmp
On 26.04.2013 01 <tel:26.04.2013%2001>:44, Carmela Ariza wrote:
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
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not having. --
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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] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:carmela_ariza@yahoo.__com
<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
Dear OST friends,
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
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