Regarding: Christina Baldwin's circle methodology, Meg Wheatley's embrace of Christina's approach and 'facilitator control'.
I participated in a From the Four Directions circle for two years. Our 'facilitator' had been trained by Christina and Meg. We all read both Christina's and Meg's books. Most of us were facilitators and OD types. There was no facilitator control of any kind and I never got the impression that the methodology had any intention in its design to have facilitator control in its design. The facilitator held space for our first meeting and then we quickly self managed for the next two years. The facilitator continued to feel responsible, I know, and she was in dialogue with Christina. But the facilitator exerted no control. The group actually brought Christina to Michigan to do a circle practicum but that took place after I had moved to Seattle. There was no 'dark side' in any circle practice in our Four Directions group and I feel quite confident that we were closelyl aligned with both Christina and Meg. Two of our members, Carol and Dave Schwinn are long time partners with Meg. Carol still works for and with Meg. I am a savvy gal and if there was a dark side to Christina or Meg's approach to circle, I would have discerned it. >From: WINSTON KINCH <[email protected]> >Reply-To: OSLIST <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: the dark side of circle practices -- and related themes >Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 08:21:36 -0400 > >Hi all. >I know this is a somewhat extended string at this point (I just returned >from some time away and tuned in) but the "circle practices" referred to >early on in the discussion sound a lot like Christina Baldwin's "Calling >the Circle" which Meg Wheatley has supported in her recent work... I recall >having some concerns about the "facilitator control" aspects of the process >when I first read about it and wonder if that is not what is underlying >what I have been reading in the string? >Winston > >* >* >========================================================== >[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 _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ * * ========================================================== [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
