--- Lisa Heft <lilisaheftpopeningspaceet> wrote: Harrison- I totally 'got' that you were fully engaged, and also knowing you and having seen you work I know that you would have found just the right way to say what you were doing without in any way leveraging it or implying anything by it. I also feel that people in the circle would have by the words you chose felt your engagement even in the act of temporarily leaving the circle. I see it as an invitation that you made (offering, not withdrawing)...
What jumps out at me is that Harrision's leaving speaks to the heart of Open Space...the act of leaving for a bit REQUIRES the PARTICIPANTS to draw on their sense of RESPONSIBILITY and PASSION to determine what will happen. Contrast that situation to all of those times you've witnessed (suffered through) when a facilitator/consultant chased their tail in an attempt to "get to go!" and in the end was "blamed" for NOT fixing the conflict etc. The facilitator owned the outcome! Need for this element (re-opening) of facilitation skill maybe rare but it is TOTALLY in concert with "Telling the Truth" and "Letting It Go". And that my friends is true Open Space. Harrision, thanks a bunch for opening this up. ===== Elwin Guild Future Development International Baltimore * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
