>From some recent experiences, I have realised that it would be jolly useful to have some open space guidelines for circle practitioners in the west who never quite get to open space but also believe in the 'democracy' of speak when you have the talking stick, and gong when the group needs a timeout
The strength and weakness of circle culture (divorced from other rules of open space) is that it takes everyone's equal right to chat about a context to democratic extremes. I realise that this is useful where the eldest are the most confused; but its not always useful in the case where the youngest are the least systemicly connected either in their own experiences or in the stories they are able to tell representing a diversity of views (beyond that the person actually holds) Enough said to start a conversation, or do I need to amplify? Cheers, chris macrae * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
