Nino and All, Firstly I would like to thank you all for your kind words of welcome and the reaction to my story.
I would absolutely agree with the points that you made about the "openness of the space". Keeping the space as open as possible seems to be very crucial to a good experience, whether in an OST meeting or in everyday life. Love is definitely a part of keeping the space open. Especially with family but, from what I've seen, to me there is also love in a facilitator. There is a love of the process, but also a detached sort of love for the group. Rachel -----Original Message----- From: Nino Novak <nino.no...@tuebingen.netsurf.de> To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Date: January 14, 2001 8:50 AM Subject: Re: My Life in Open Space >Dear all, > >First, I want to thank you, Rachel, for sharing your childhood story. > >As I am father of three children myself, this story somehow touches my >heart especially and gives rise to some thoughts that I in turn want to >share with you: > >>>From an OS facilitator's point of view, there may be laws and principles >that help him/her to manage to open space to/for some people. From a >participiant's view, in contrast, there is only something like a "gut >feeling" about a certain event. And if asked what makes the feeling >being good in a particular case, the participiants might say: there was >a good atmosphere, respectful communication, good results. And, in >addition, there was a great amount of personal freedom. If this all >holds true, than the feeling about this event cannot be bad, I think. I >therefore would call this particular space "open". (In contrast, when >they feel uncomfortable, or cannot rise their voice loud enough to be >heard, or feel under pressure, and/or results are bad, I would call the >space: not open. I don't like to say "closed", so perhaps "narrow" is >the best term.) > >In my belief, any event or process has certain open aspects, and also an >amount of narrow ones. Any (social) interaction may produce good >feelings - or bad or unhappy ones. Would you agree to say, that the >degree of "openess of the space" plays a major role on the quality of >the feelings about the corresponding event/process? > >And - at least from my point of view - this is also true for family >interaction. (I don't like the term "education" because it implies much >more activity (of the educator on the educated) than needed for a "good >education"). In simple words: the opener the space, the better the kids >feel, and the better they can develop. > >By the way - the best "opener of space" towards my children seems to be >love. I don't know if this can be compared to a facilitator's attitude. >And I don't know if it can be learned in a training - but at least the >OST laws and principles seem to be a substantial part of what I do when >I love. > >Good wishes, >Nino > >* >* >========================================================== >osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu >To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, >view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu >Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > >=========================================================== >osl...@egroups.com >To subscribe, >1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist >2. Sign up -- provide an email address, > and choose a login ID and password >3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions > >To unsubscribe, change your options, >view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: >1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist >2. Sign in and Proceed * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== osl...@egroups.com To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed
