At 02:33 PM 1/4/2002 -0900, Julie wrote:
Just one last thing as we re walking to the dining room.... Maybe mediation isn t quite so much like surgery after all. After all, mediators don t fix things. We don t view ourselves as Experts with Answers. We don t give advice.
Total Agreement -- quoth me -- "But the Mediators I know, and I know (and deeply respect) more than a few, know all about space, creating space, holding the moment, minimalist to an extreme. Truthfully, at a deep level, I have a very hard job distinguishing what they do from what I (wearing my OST hat) do -- except that I seem to work with more people at one time."
Being a mediator might be more like being a friend. A friend who can tolerate the tension and ambiguity of being friend to you AND other, even when you and other are in conflict. A friend who believes in the possibility of unity in spite of the separation manifested in the conflict. A friend who holds safe and open space. A friend who listens. A friend who speaks. :)
YES!!!!
&..Okay, I m ready for that glass of wine now.
Myself. And May I pour? And How about a cigar???? Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 USA phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website www.mindspring.com/~owenhh [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected] Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
