Hello Raffi! I have been in simular situations, where I had to chose the possible, not the best. Until now I have never had the opportunity to have the storytelling the evening before an OpenSpace. At one occation I had it in the evening after we started OpenSpace at lunchtime. We had dinner inbetween, and used another room, with more of comfortable livingroom-feeling. We still had a circle, but with some nice sofas and big armchairs - and candles in the middle. It worked fine, and the next morning we continued the OpenSpace. At another occasion I met a group three times, with some weeks between the first and the second occasion. The group was a eco-village community, wanting to work with their future. They had after having struggeled with establishing their village for several years and succeded, now some big disturbing and half hidden conflicts among them. At the first meeting I used some "whole person process facilitation" inspired from Birgitt Williams, and we talked about democracy (which was my official commission from the start) and meetingformats etc. At the end THE CONFLICT came up. People where scared, but the form with rounds etc. made it possible to continue talking and listening. They decided to continue the process with me as a facilitator. Two weeks later we had a storytelling evening. I started it with a very short introduction where I talked about the four voices which have to be heard in a conflict-resolution process - Truth, Justice, Peace and Mercy. Then I let it go. It worked fabolous! The evening was full of feelings, courage, listening...Two days after that we had a VERY short OpenSpace about their future- and that worked to! They expressed lots of inspiration and ideas, and that the hopelessness many of then had been in before theese meetings was gone. I believe that storytelling always works, but that the evening-feeling is important, and the one night sleep. In your situation I would choose to have the storytelling on saturday evening right after dinner. Good luck! Agneta Setterwall, Sweden ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raffi Aftandelian" <bry...@online.ru> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 7:58 AM Subject: timing of storytelling before OS
> Dear listers, > Is it OK to conduct the storytelling right before an OS event? I will > be conducting a 2 day OS with a women's nonprofit > organization this weekend. They cannot meet on Friday (or another day > before the weekend) for storytelling. If we were to start Sat. am with > storytelling, break for lunch, and then launch into OS would that be > OK? > > Or, is it pretty important that storytelling be separated by at least > one night of sleep before the event? > > Thanks folks for your support! > Raffi Aftandelian > > * > * > ========================================================== > 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...@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
