Thanks for an interesting conversation of transfer in processes. I use a transfer in exercise starting most meetings that are not Open Space meetings. I use a format I learnt from Birgitt Williams - Whole Person Process Facilitation. One thing that strikes many participants is how fast they get into the actual core of the meeting. In my experience people also "open up" and speak from their heart this way.
For me this has worked wonderfully in my pre-meetings and I now also use this process in follow up meetings after an Open Space meeting. One detail I could share at the same time is that I use a digital camera to take pictures from the flip charts the participants and I use in these meetings. That makes it a lot easier for me/my sponsor and everybody gets the documentation at their computor the very same day. Greetings Thomas Herrmann, Kungsbacka, Sweden -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]]För Harrison Owen Skickat: den 24 juni 2002 14:06 Till: [email protected] Ämne: Re: Transfer in Process At 08:37 PM 6/23/2002 -0400, Doug. Germann wrote: Harrison, you do seem to use a transfer in process--for you it is silence and time to look at the people around the circle. That seems true, at least if what I suspect is going on in a transfer-in, *is* what is going on: you are breaking the preoccupations people bring to the meeting and getting their minds and spirits in the same place as their bodies. The difference is that the stories bring people there for others to see, and the silence brings them there in a potentially deeper, less visible, way. Sure --- and I suppose you could think of the whole Open Space as a "Transfer-In Process" But my real point is to minimize the number of things I add or do which have the tendency to keep the people from the central of getting on with their business. Over the years I have practiced a single design principle when working with Open Space: Think of one more thing NOT to do. My effort was to keep stripping away all the things that could be done, or might be nice to do -- in order to leave the bare essentials, whatever they were. At the beginning, it just seemed like a good thing (not) to do. But from my present perspective, in which Open Space is really all about the power of self-organization, one of things we have learned is that self-organization slows or stops when you add a bunch of stuff. Less stuff, more power. I am sure there are a few more things I could throw out, but I guess I feel pretty comfortable with the little that I do. Added to that, I have yet to see any "add on" (beyond Walk the circle, announce the theme, explain the mechanics/principles, and go to work) that added anything substantive to the total experience. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808River 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
