Pat--
That is an evocative picture! Thank you for taking me in a different
direction.
:- Doug.
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 13:29 -0500, Pat Black wrote:
> Interesting question Wendy. The difference between hosting and
> holding space is where my attention goes. Holding space by attention
> is only on the space and what it requires. In hosting I attend to the
> beings inside the space and what they need to thrive in the space.
> Pat Black
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Wendy Farmer-O'Neil <we...@xe.net>
> wrote:
> Mu
>
>
> ;)
>
> w
>
> On 7-Jul-10, at 8:47 AM, doug wrote:
>
> Hi--
>
> In a recent post,
> http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?p=2839 Chris
> Corrigan says "there is no outside."
>
> Chris has got me thinking again of the interplay of
> hosting and holding
> space.
>
> As I see it today, holding space means having a view
> towards the health
> of the whole system that is in the room—a global view
> that is larger
> than the participants might have. So it is not
> noticing themes, because
> my experience is that the facilitator is not into the
> trees enough to
> notice the paths in the woods.
>
> It is more that the facilitator is seeing that the
> woods is healthy for
> all the beings there—little animals and large, birds
> and insects and
> flowers and trees. Of course that is an impossible
> task, since no one is
> managing the forest. The forest self organizes itself.
>
> So we pick up the coffee cups and candy bar wrappers
> and pop cans that
> people semi-consciously leave behind and we let those
> who are active in
> the conversations know by our invisible presence that
> they are doing
> things exactly right: whatever happens....
>
> So can this be done from within the system? Is there
> any outside? Is
> there not a certain hubris in thinking we can stay
> above and outside and
> hold the space...what? Together?
>
> How is hosting related to holding space? When can the
> space holder enter
> the conversation swirling about?
>
> :- Doug.
>
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