Hello Leslie: I have a big difficulties with OS in the same sense, related to to much sitting and talking. I experienced a very nice balance of sitting and talking and moving with the group in Wosonos2011 in Chile where every night, or almost we where dancing. It was very good for me and I think for many other participants. You can ask them. In two OS I facilitated i proposed to the organizer if they wanted to introduce movement and they accepted.
So we had music and a movement facilitator. The group was invited to move AND we had the law of the two feet, so if any person decided not to move, or not to be there in the room at that moment , that person could walk away during that time. This movement activity took like 30 or 40 minutes. I have some videos that show this if you want to see them. I talked about it with some other facilitator and they said this could close the space. In my experience this was appropriated for this group, because after moving everybody felt happy and less stressed. The first group was a very stressed group. Their job is to take care of women that are victims of violence. For the closing circle I could have more difficulties think how people can talk, listen and walk at the same time because I experienced something like this in a small group of six people and it was not nice. Some people did not like this because it was to difficult for them to tray to do two things at the same time. It really depends of the size of the group also, the space, and how long is the OS. At the end comparing to other types of conferences for me OS allows a lot of movement because you go from one group to the other as many times as you need to move...but ...yes to much sitting is tiring. In wosonos 2012 in London Eleder Bun talked about this same issue. He shared with me some ideas related with this and even a text about how bad is to much sitting time in our lives...if you want to know about this topic you could ask him to send you the text. Thank you for bringing this topic here. Adriana 2015-02-02 19:57 GMT-06:00 Leslie Zucker via OSList < [email protected]>: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Dra. Adriana Díaz-Berrio CRHA 438 338 1654 (Montreal, Canadá) (52) 442 212 63 92 (Querétaro fijo) (52) 55 13 28 19 12 (México DF) www.diazberrio.com
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