Greetings All I feel I've been a voyeur of your amazing sharings and learning's over the past three months and feel it is time to launch into cyber space with my experience of this Open Space stuff.
I work as an environmental educator with communities and have realised my need for better facilitation skills for a little while now. I duly trained in Open Space with Helen Patterson in early March this year. Since then I have opened space three times. Little has prepared me for the change that is currently taking place with myheart, my head and eyes!. Everywhere I look I see space opening and closing! I have a name for that awful feeling I have when I see my contribution getting systematically picked to pieces and given back to me in tatters; conversely I have a name for when people truly act with integrity. I used to think I was a great facilitatator, could read a group, could intervene just at the right moment, could hold it together under huge adversity...; I can tell you I was tired! Big question: How do people survive the heirarchical structures we have out there? How do people live with/out open space in their own lives? Now I'm on this trail I really don't want to be living and working in any other way. All the best Mike Copeland ############################################## This e-mail (and attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. ############################################## * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
