Doug yes, you are also right. I think it could be very different for various people.
I think it depends on how I manage to hold my own space. Since I was originally trained as a physicist, the instrumentation became for me a symbol of efficient separation between me (my space) and the (space of the) observed entity/system. Holding Space for a group means for me to offer sharing an 'internal' mental status (or perhaps I should call it mood or non-everyday-trance...), which accepts and stays fully open for intensive and flexible overlapping of all the present individual spaces/spheres. In my case I know, that taking fotos (I love it!) brings additional agenda into the game. I want to make good fotos, I want to capture the Spirit of the situation. I want to take fotos in a way that they are useful for documentation.... I have to use a flash when I take close ups of black people, and not if they are pale skinned. I have to center the camera to get nicely readable fotos of flip-charts....Even if much of that is already automatized, I just forget about holding space when holding a camera. And for me there is a big difference between taking up the camera and taking up a cup. Not being distracted from my self seems to be a pre-condition for holding space. Putting it on a more abstract level: non-instrumentated sensual perception is usually integrating seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, feeling (outside/inside/position relatively to "down"/self-perception), special organ amplifications like cameras tend to destroy the integral perception Bernd ----- [email protected] 29.09.2002 at 10:08:33 (GMT/UT + 02:00) 1) attached to this e-mail : No file 2) All attached files are mentioned by name in the lines above.Please do not open any other attachment! 3) Please send text documents in RichTextFormat/*.rtf, if possible. This also facilitates communication between the mac- and ms-world. ---- Bernd Weber Organization Development Consultant "DEVELOP YOUR CAPACITIES - MATERIALIZE YOUR VISION" C.P. 1462, Beira, Sofala, MOZAMBIQUE fone: +258-3-32 98 59, cellfone:+258-82-43 79 77 ----- WB-TrainConsult management- & human resources training, consulting & development ----- Gumpendorfer Straße 88b/18, AT-1060 Wien, AUSTRIA fone & fax: +431 596 86 57, cellfone: +43 0662 7667872 ----- Inscricao no grupo de discussao "Sistemas organizacionais": Escrever um email para o endereco <[email protected]> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 00:32:52 -0400, Douglas D. Germann, Sr. wrote: >Bernd-- > >You could be right. > >Is it also possible that looking through the lens helps you be more >fully there? > >I too hope we get input from others. > >:-Doug. Germann > >PS: Sorry to take so long getting back to you--my computer has not >been cooperating. > >:-Doug. > >* * ========================================================== >[email protected] ------------------------------ >To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of >[email protected], Visit: > >http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
