Queridos amigos, Thank you Harold, Wendy, Jorge, and Harrison for your responses.
Wendy: Yes, to clarify- these are "pre-designed" sessions. So, the Community Bulletin Board is blank at the outset. Harold: Yes, I do make sure that there are enough session times, so scarcity of breakout spaces is not an issue. What is an issue is do we really end up having a truly emergent process? Context-creation and personal preparation are invited beforehand. People are invited to re-read the main Compassionate Communication book, and two reflect ahead of the event on two questions inspired by what I've seen from the Art of Hosting community (and from Peggy): - What could this daylong gathering *be*? (i.e. if it were to really matter in my own life what would it look like?) - How do I feel called to contribute to making the above happen? (i.e. how do i want to show up?) re: "I've noticed that sometimes people have a tendency to flock to the most charismatic presenter, and then to recede into the background." Indeed, this reminds me of one friend who refuses to ever participate in any OST meeting because as he sees it in *any* gathering (even in OST) people will flock to those people within the group that have the highest levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine (if I'm not mistaken)-- so to extrapolate what he sees: leadership is *never* truly emergent, rather it's biologically pre-determined... *** I've wondered if it would be appropriate in the opening to say something like, "and if you came here today already knowing what you want to convene a session around, i'd like to invite you to check with yourself for a moment-- and check and see what you *really* have a passion about?" But somehow, adding words like that doesn't seem in the spirit of letting go of outcome... abrazos, Raphael * * ========================================================== 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
