"Facts of life" I love it!!! thanks mmp
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If you are not an intended recipient(s), please notify it via e-mail at [email protected] <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/blocked::mailto:[email protected]> promptly 2015-01-22 21:55 GMT+01:00 Michael M Pannwitz via OSList < [email protected]>: > Dear Harold, > > "One Less Thing" to do appears to me to be "more" of a "principle" than > the 4 or 5 "principles" many of us invoke (I call them "Facts of Life"). > > When the isssue of "whatever" I want to NOT do any more, I ask myself: > In which way does this support the force of selforganisation to unfold > more freely. > > Asking that question myself, I might come to a conclusion that fits my > perception of how effective not doing a particular "whatever" might be. > Another facilitator (or participant or sponsor or....) might come to a > totally different conclusion. Also valid, is my guess. > > My own experience in the role of "participant" has been that delegation or > sharing of tasks or having more than one facilitator (regardless of it > being a 4 hour os or a multiple day event) destracted me in that I found > myself trying to figure out why this was done. It did not shorten the > facilitation nor did it make the facilitators more "invisible", in other > words "my" time to deal with my issues was decreased. > > I remember, however, that my own experience as a > "participant/sponsor/facilitator" > (especially at the Practice of Peace event in Berlin with Harrison) was > very positive at the time with Harrison doing the facilitation on Day 1 in > English, Anna Gochtchinskaia on Day 2 in Russian, and me on Day 3 without > words and plenty of pantomine. > > In the many years of my facilitation life thereafter, I never engaged in > replicating it, that is I did not add any of it. > > In another setting, where I was "sponsor/participant/facilitator" but > being together with others in the same "role" and everyone with experience > in the various roles, we practiced sitting in silence in the circle until > someone got up and announced the first issue. It took about 5 to 7 minutes > and we practiced this many times. > > The facilitation that impressed me most was that of Larry Peterson at the > WOSonOS (at that time those events had the name "OSonOS") in Toronto in > 1997... one year after I had run into Harrison and Romy and OST in the UK. > At first I felt that his facilitation was without charisma, non-inspiring, > non-impressive... later I felt it had been non-invasive, without control, > with no frills, humble, unattached, attentive, disciplined... simply as > close to invisible and still with utter presence... > > Greetings from Berlin... looking forward to the next WOSonOS this year in > Krakow/Poland in September > mmp > > On 22.01.2015 15:01, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: > >> I've been to several multi-day OST events where the facilitation was >> delegated. Peggy Holman's Journalism That Matters in Detroit had >> different facilitators that opened the space each morning. The Florida >> WOSonOS had different facilitators each morning as well. The 2014 >> Opening Space for Peace & High Performance had different facilitators, >> and so did the one this year - including different people for the >> evening news. >> >> I, as facilitator for the opening and closing, had delegated the details >> of how you post sessions to a colleague for my Montana OST in 2013. But >> this year, Thomas "Tom" Brown, who opened the second day of the NYC >> Opening Space at International House 2015, delegated the five principles >> to the circle. I'd not seen that happen before, and it worked >> brilliantly. Beautifully. Some walked a circle in the middle, like a >> traditional OST facilitator. Some said something from their seats. Some >> spoke just a few seconds, some took a minute or two. But it worked >> really well. Kudos to Tom Brown. >> >> Will folks share how we can do "one less thing", including the actual >> facilitation, and how it has worked to let that go to other organizers >> or to the actual circle itself? >> >> Thanks! >> Harold >> > -- > Michael M Pannwitz > Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany > ++49 - 30-772 8000 > > > > Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 403 resident Open > Space Workers in 69 countries working in a total of 143 countries > worldwide: www.openspaceworldmap.org > _______________________________________________ > 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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