Lisa, Chris and Harrison, Thanks for your time and thoughtful feedback. I appreciate your help, especially since I don’t open space often. I’m so grateful.
Lisa, your questions are excellent ones - as yours always are! I totally respect the reflection and collaboration that would be necessary to answer even most, much less all of those questions, during the pre-work phase. I get the value and how that pre-work serves the Open Space event itself. With that said, I find it incredibly time-consuming and a real balancing act of time / attention needed vs. time / payment available. What I’m learning (thanks to your reflecting it back to me) is that I had an expectation that the closing circle would be filled with positivity and connection - given that people had just experienced Open Space about a topic that they care about. This expectation -that it be a certain way- doesn’t serve and I can let it go. There was some ego involved in that expectation and that’s not helpful to anyone either. The process will be what it will be. Harrison, I understand your stance that it’s better to leave simple simple. I continually hear you say that less is more. With the following paragraph, I may be playing devil’s advocate - fixing something that’s not broken. In the name of creativity and innovation, however, I offer an idea. Given the extreme sedentary nature of most people’s work life, I believe that those same "most people" appreciate an opportunity / invitation to NOT sit. For example, I find sitting in a closing circle for more than 15 minutes to be extremely difficult. Maybe collective group movement (just walking) is more fun and less vulnerable than individual movement - which certainly frightens some people. Because I believe this, it may be worth a little experimentation to test some of my assumptions. I’d like to try a group walking closing, rather than a group sitting closing. For those who expressed interest and curiosity about this idea, I’ll send over my draft thoughts to you directly. I’d love your feedback. With humility and gratitude, Leslie Leslie Zucker Trainer, Facilitator and Life Coach for Life's Dancers +1 (202) 425 7637 [email protected] www.lesliezucker.com
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