Hi Birgit Thank you for your sharing your practice and clarity on this.
Kindly Toke Sendt fra min iPhone Den 03/08/2011 kl. 02.40 skrev "Birgitt Williams" <[email protected]>: > Warm greetings! > > I have been absent from this list for some time and am delighted to be > connected now, at least for a while, taking advantage of some quiet time over > the summer to connect with people and ideas. > > > > A topic that I wish to address is about the outcomes of an OST meeting in > relation to the energy field of the facilitator. From my perspective and > experience, there is a direct relationship. I often ask OST facilitators what > they mean when they say that they ‘open space’ and ‘hold space’. My > perspective on the facilitator ‘opening space’ is that this is just not so. > The facilitator does not ‘open the space’. The sponsor ‘opens space’ in his > or her organization so that the facilitator can conduct the form of the Open > Space Technology meeting. Viewed from that lens, I make choices when I > prepare with the sponsor for the OST meeting, and what I ask of the sponsor > and his/her participation during the meeting itself. For example, the sponsor > teams I work with are coached about working with their personal energy to > support the highly engaging participatory process. I ask them to sit > equidistant from each other in the circle and ‘hold the space’ open for the > best possible outcomes and the greatest participation. At the end of every > day of the meeting, we meet simply to discuss what it felt like to them to > have opened the space and held the space. The reflections are amazing. > > > > My role as the lead facilitator and the role of my co-facilitators is one of > working with the space being held, of going through the form of OST, and more > importantly to be in touch with ourselves as resonant energy field > generators. Every one of us works at being in genuine contact with ourselves, > with our personal energy field, and within that genuine contact experiences > love and peace and joy. Our job as resonant energy field generators is to > broadcast this frequency from ourselves to give the greatest opportunity for > everyone within the gathering to reach their greatest potential in the moment > of the meeting. ‘Holding the space’ from my perspective is this very > connection and interpretation of self as generating a resonant energy field. > Doing little, being much. > > > > When a meeting goes well, there are many factors, including how well we > created an energy field as facilitators and how well we did this together > with our sponsors. We recognize that in both our observer role and in our > role as energy field generators, we influence the meeting and the outcomes of > the meeting. > > > > Blessings to all, > > Birgitt > > > > > > Birgitt Williams > > President and Senior Consultant, Dalar International Consultancy > Author, The Genuine Contact Way > > 919-522-7750 > > <image001.jpg> > > <image002.jpg>Co-Owner of the Genuine Contact™ Program > <image003.png> Genuine Contact Way blog > <image004.jpg> Become a fan of the Genuine Contact Way > <image005.jpg> Follow me > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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