Hi all Thanks for your comments on warm up. While the discussion was continuing on the list I was opening space for a group pf 40 dairy industry policy makers, support organisations and dairy farmers.
As usual, I learn best from doing (being an active experimenter) and these are my observations from this last event: 1) people arrived from all over Victoria (some having driven for more than six hours to get to the event). Many of them were literally 'stopped in their steps' as they went to enter the main room where the circle of chairs greeted them - this was part of their warm-up 2) As I waited in the wings for some latecomers and while everyone else was chatting and drinking coffee I overheard some of the snippets of conversation - there was interest tinged with anticipation and a dash of apprehension. More warming up. 3) Harrison's comments about ritual certainly ring true. The temple bells, the theme, the walking of the circle, the description of the process - all helped warm the group up to a vibrant and successful event In trying to be unnoticed once the marketplace opened, I retreated to the libaray and pulled out my dog-eared copy of the User's Guide. I read about the changing relationship to the circle - how by the second day it becomes natural - and even heard comments to that effect the next day (especially from thge dairy farmers). My conclusions? The warm up is embedded in the process, but where there may be some other appropriate ritual for a group, I would incorporate it. But I am no longer anxious about coming up with an appropriate warm up! Thanks. Viv Please note NEW telephone number Viv McWaters Beyond the Edge Pty Ltd PO Box 665, Torquay 3228 Victoria Australia Ph/Fax: 61 3 5261 9498 Mobile 0417 135 406 "Thus the task is not so much to see what no-one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everyone sees." Schopenhauer * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
