Hi, Kevin - You asked: <What would you recommend focusing my precious study time on considering
that I am not a facilitator, nor do I really have any experience in it (other than conducting meetings at work). I have met some "facilitators" however, and am blown away at how, well, "easy" and smoothly meaningful conversations happen in their hands. I wanna be like that!> I think that being on this OSLIST is like being in Open Space University - so this is a great place to learn. You might think about going to an Asia regional conference of the International Association of Facilitators - which would give you little mini-sampler courses in many facilitation methods and introduce you to others. http://www.iaf-world.org <http://www.iaf-world.org/> You might also try the Institute of Cultural Affairs / Japan: http://www.icajapan.org/indexe.html There are also books which my colleagues have enjoyed, and I'm sure they'll recommend some. Perhaps if you ask that question all on its own, with a special title - like "Books for Learning Facilitation" (or whatever) - other individuals who want to look that up in future on our OSLIST archives will be able to benefit from all that input, as well. You also asked, <I'm sure the answer is "word of mouth" and "building relationships", but I still gotta ask, where do you folk's clients come from?> You've got it. And then sometimes you just jump in and decide to develop a meeting of your own and facilitate it, inviting interesting people to join you ! You will also meet other facilitators at these conferences for example, and perhaps you'll meet some people with whom you can collaborate.. Take care, Lisa ___________________________ L i s a H e f t Consultant, Facilitator, Educator O p e n i n g S p a c e 2325 Oregon Berkeley, California 94705-1106 USA +01 510 548-8449 [email protected] www.openingspace.net * * ========================================================== [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
