Denis wrote: I have a slightly different slant to this one. I think that as the space belongs to the people & it is their right to close and not mine I should open the final session and they should close it when they are ready. I should not speak during this session.
Your comments and others have got me thinking about the nature of closure and responsibility - it does seem appropriate to include whatever the group wishes to include in this space - it is their space and if they wish to include all the thank-yous and winding-ups, then so be it.... In the past, my final comments on the four directions have related to questions for participants' reflection on Harrison's ideas of: vision, community, leadership and structure - these have usually taken participants beyond their own immediate personal experience of the process into another space for insight to emerge. I think I'd like to keep this in where possible - I see it as the final gift of the process (at this event) to evoke deepening Spirit within individuals and the organisation - however, on this occasion, it didn't seem useful for me to do it once the President's speech was over....indeed, the President's comments were really not directly related to his own experiences/feedback of the process but much more of a formal thank you to all the helpers - in a way, this may have been why i was feeling 'unclosed' myself ! hence the question - let them close their space, facilitator closes out self and 'formal open space' process and then they conclude their organisational formalities, still in the circle....? Brendan * * ========================================================== 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
