Thanks, Micheal, those were both structures I was considering. My neighbors in Missoula have lots of facilitated silence in other things they do, like yoga, spiritual retreats, etc. I should not have been surprised some felt deprived.
Has anyone else received such feedback, and if so how did you process it. Thanks again! Harold On Jun 15, 2015 12:37 PM, "Michael Herman" <[email protected]> wrote: > i think you can build it in, as much or as little as you feel is right for > each situation, harold, just in the pacing of your opening briefing, if you > like. you ring the bells, silence happens. you decide when to bump that > silence with walking into the circle. you decide when to break it when you > start talking. you put space between sentences and the different parts of > your briefing. > > i saw a video of myself in a circle of about 300, one big circle. my > pacing was, for me, excrutiatingly slow to watch. but i also had what felt > like a lot of ground to cover, to get around and engage with folks all > along that circle. when i finished, people literally ran to the center of > the circle. so i think it worked pretty well. > > lisa kimball suggested to me recently that a minute of silence is one of > the simplest possible liberating structure. (liberatingstructures.com) > she describes taking a minute at the beginning of a meeting, not in a > woo-woo way, but in a very practical way: we're all busy people, coming > from different places, let's take EXACTLY on minute to let brains finish > where they've been and get ready for the work we're about to do here... > will be long for some and too short for others, but promise it will be > EXACTLY a minute... and then we'll dive into [the work]. her liberating > structures materials might be posted somewhere at groupjazz.com > > m > > > > > > > -- > > Michael Herman > Michael Herman Associates > http://MichaelHerman.com > http://OpenSpaceWorld.org > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> The Open Space for the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center ( >> http://civicrm.jrpc.org/rising-from-the-ashes) I facilitated this >> Saturday went extremely well. We had a full day of sessions and high levels >> of engagement, and the center's Executive Director said it way exceeded her >> expectations. >> >> After sitting in the glow of so many thank you's, gratitude, and "good >> job" the day of the event and afterwards - I was surprised and quite >> annoyed by a bit of feed back second hand through email... >> >> "there should have been a 5-minute or so thinking time." >> >> "Some people needed more quiet time to gather there thoughts." >> >> As people become more familiar with Open Space, my personal experience is >> that rather than a long awkward and anxiety filled pause as facilitators >> worry if anyone will post a session - instead, especially in public OST >> events, people launch and line up to populate the agenda. This has bothered >> me, but this is the first time I've heard the complaint of a *lack* of >> silence in the opening. >> >> After my initial annoyance, and speaking with an Open Space colleague, my >> wife, and another space holding professional, I wondered if this weren't >> actually something that can help there be authentic open space, and not >> just a cargo cult going through the motions. >> >> I'm pondering a way to help there be space before people come to the >> center to announce their sessions - but without doing some heavy >> facilitated silence or meditation process. >> >> Any thoughts, suggestions? >> >> Thank you! >> Harold >> >> >> -- >> Harold Shinsato >> [email protected] >> http://shinsato.com >> twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> Past archives can be viewed here: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> > >
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