Harrison, Good to hear back from you. I also want to pick up on another aspect of this.
A number of new friends recently have attended OST events I've facilitated and there has been an opportunity to go into more depth about their experience of the event and to hear some honesty about what it has been like for them. And one piece of OSlist wisdom- from Peggy Holman a few years back- has guided how I have these conversations. Peggy'd mentioned/implied (or i inferred) how in the past when people didn't "get" OST or an aspect of OST, she'd find herself engaging with the person depending the philosophy of OST in a way that didn't promote understanding or connection. And that over the years, she'd really shifted - giving up her attachment to the practice of OS/ost- to really listen. And those words of hers have inspired me to do the same. I realized upon reading those words that i hadn't really listened in the past...and it's been inspiring to try to listen fully and (try to) let go of my ideas of ost... This question of what to do if someone requests a roundrobin is still with me. I've seen that request at least three times. And none of those times I've interfered. And two times people *have* gone around the circle and introduced themselves...Would you intervene and actively discourage people from doing a roundrobin? (one time was a group of 30 for a 4 hour ost, the other 50 people for a 4 hour...) appreciatively, raffi * * ========================================================== 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
