Thank you Harold for this topic.
What came to mind for me: Safety and Wave Riding!
Open Space invites us to be wave riders of our own life.
A compelling theme, an invitation, a circle, a handful of principles and a
law...
How can it be that a process so deceptively simple can unlock and
Great questions and conversation !
For me, what the principles and law do, is to give participants a sense of how
people in this group will act.This gives a « safe enough » space. As in groups,
what is frightening is not knowing what can happen here. This prevent most
people of being
Two great lessons for me.
Christina Baldwin: "no one person can be responsible for the safety of a group
but a group can learn to take responsibility for its own safety"
Birgitt Williams: " there is always greif in the room."
Chris
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Wow - thank you Peggy and Birgitt - very valuable.
I'm curious about two things. What is the differen
Wow - thank you Peggy and Birgitt - very valuable.
I'm curious about two things. What is the difference between focus on
welcoming, and a focus on safety - and how can the sponsor help make the
space welcoming?
The second - the reason safety has become much more important to me is
the story
Hi Harold,
I believe that the greatest issues about safety come about when a
facilitator attempts to reassure people that 'this is safe space'. We can
never know if the space for conversations is actually safe, despite the
safeguards built in by the four principles and the one law of OST. Those
Great question Harold! I always wince when people say the space needs to be
safe. If you make space so safe that it leaves the opportunity for messiness
out, nothing happens. Sometimes I’ve said "safe enough”. Ultimately, as you
said, a sense of safety comes from within.
Rather than safety, I
Dear People(s) of Open Space,
What is the importance of safety? What, if any, work is needed in the
"pre-work" to help ensure safety?
It seems that safety is doomed if the "givens" are that the people in
the organization must either be silent or agree with the "powers that
be" on
