Hi, I generally no longer participate in spaces I'm asked to open. My thinking about this has always been influenced by what I understand to be solid group dynamics research, but lately I've realized something else.
First, the apparent research results... I'm told that the facilitator is the authority figure in the room, and my experience repeatedly confirms this. As such, just entering a room often changes things because it frequently triggers people's authority-relationship responses. This doesn't help people. Specifically, I think, it closes space (or at least narrows it), and this I do not want to do. I think this is all true, but, lately, it's gotten much simpler for me: I was not invited. The message of OS/OST? I could ramble on about this one for days, but I'll boil it down to three words: I don't know. But I do know this: it's the same different message every time. What are people up to this summer? Ralph Copleman * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
