Client Curveball No. 321 -- how would you do it?

[Birgitt Williams]

Hi Chris,
thank you for your comments and for raising questions that I think we all
wrestle with and don't know how to answer. Answering ethical questions
depends on each individual, personal values, and wisdom. And like you, every
time I feel I have attained a certain amount of wisdom, I go back again to
feeling like an infant, realizing how much I have yet to learn, always the
sense of death/rebirth like in the sweatlodge.

Here are my current thoughts about some of what you have raised and I look
forward to the conversation that will unfold about this.

In North America ( I don't know the statistics for the rest of the world),
we can assume that for every ten people we have in a group, at least 5 will
have had some experience as a victim of violence of some sort (this of
course is dependent on the demographics). We are not responsible for their
life story or their healing. However, it is helpful to remember that there
are very rich lives amongst the group--rich in joy and rich in pain. The
full spectrum of the human experience.

It is safer for everyone to use tried and true presentation/facilitation
tools and techniques that do not go deeply into the person. The ethical
dilemma you raise wouldn't be much of a dilemma because the person would not
have to show up and be really present but could simply "yawn" in the back of
the room and write a grocery list instead of paying attention. However, by
using methods that don't go deeply, it is very difficult to reach real
solutions, real creativity, real healing and learning.

Some of us (probably most of us who are attracted to Open Space Technology
and choose to use it, most of us on this list serve)don't want to work that
way. We want to provide the nutrient conditions for the group to use its
wisdom, its fullness to find its solutions and creativity. And if learning
and healing also happen that is good too. And when we choose to work with
deep work we need to be aware that people might go deeply into their
solutions and creativity, and also deeply into things within themselves that
hurt a lot, that have remained hidden within them because they are too
painful to bring up to the conscious level. As facilitators of processes
that go deeply, we "open space" for whatever happens, whatever is
needed--and this is not just about the lighter happier side. You yourself
have noted that often you have a person in tears (tears of healing I think)
even in the closing circle. I think this is a frequent frequent experience.
It is certainly my experience. I remember my friend Barry Owen once working
with me for almost two weeks and asking me "how do you feel about leaving a
trail behind you of people in tears?". It is my experience whenever I
facilitate an Open Space Technology meeting and whenever I do a training of
facilitators. The most common comments I hear are "this is the first time
that I feel heard and understood in my whole life" "this is the first time
in a work setting that I have been able to be my whole self and I realize
that I can't work anymore without bringing my whole self to work, even if I
get fired". As a facilitator and trainer, when I first experienced this
phenomenon, I started to look for it, to see what it was about and it took
me through years of work which for me concluded in the development of the
Genuine Contact Program which I now devote my career to. Assisting people
with processes to make Genuine Contact. Even if painful. I have included a
description of the Genuine Contact Program below my signature for any of you
who might be interested to know what I believe and work with/from along with
my partner Ward and others who are joining us.

My really examined my responsibility as a facilitator. Where does it begin
and end if I am simply doing an Open Space Technology meeting and I am not
engaged as a consultant by the organization for real change work except for
this.

As you know, because you have taken training with me, I am a strong advocate
of a pre-planning meeting and a debriefing meeting for all Open Space
Technology meetings that I facilitate. In the premeeting, we look at what is
expected to happen after the meeting, in the organization, or amongst the
participants, into the future. With a situation such as the OST for victims
of violence, this would give the opportunity to raise the questions "what
about the grief work that will emerge in the future AS A RESULT OF THE
MEETING? even if the closing circle is happy and warm. In the pre-meeting, I
discuss the grief cycle and that the meeting might in fact be the event that
initiates grief cycle work (I have written about this to the list before).
And then I would explore with the sponsor group how it will handle this into
the future, what responsibility it will take, what follow up action and
supports. In the case where we know from the beginning that the participants
are victims of violence, I would draw a diagram of the grief cycle and ask
the sponsor group where on the grief cycle they think participants would
most likely be. The answer will give you phenomenal information as to what
to do next. If the diagram shows that most participants are likely to be in
Shock/anger/denial, the question is raised about the scope of the Open Space
Technology meeting in question. And the question is raised about whether it
is appropriate to do a meeting, Open Space Technology or any other kind at
this time. If it were me, I would suggest that because of what I see about
grief cycle, I would not recommend an OST meeting to ask anything at all
about what there needs are and how the agency can support them. That is far
too exposing and too personal. And by doing a meeting, is the sponsor
meeting the participants needs or is it meeting its own needs as an agency
to get data for a needs assesment???? What is the intention here really?
Whose priority are they serving? And this is not about judgement, but about
discernment, integrity, and truth. If the agency (sponsor) is really trying
to get an idea of the best programs to run, the meeting could be possible
but the scope of the meeting would be different. The theme could be "issues
and opportunities for developing the best possible services for victims of
violence through our agency" and the invitation could go to all
"stakeholders" in the agency which of course includes victims of violence.
The invitation could note which groupings that the invitation is going to,
what the intention of the meeting is, and could note that there could be
pain filled moments if and when any personal stories of violence are shared.
The reminder here that the Law of Two Feet applies. And the invitation
should state the "givens" including what will happen to the information from
the meeting, who will see the reports etc." I also always make it clear to
the sponsor group and want them to make it clear in the invitation that
confidentiality of the discussions cannot be guaranteed (this was after a
difficult learning experience for me).It will take hard work to establish
the "givens" and then to figure out how to get things communicated in the
invitation so they can be understood. I would include an attachment in the
invitation that describes the Open Space Technology meeting so that all
participants can see what the process might look like. In the pre-meeting
with the sponsor, in a situation such as yours, I would expect the sponsor
to come up with a plan for 24 hour crisis support so that if participants
have the need, in the months following the meeting, they know support is
there for them. I would find a way to say this in the invitation, probably
through giving an example/story and then say it in the opening again.

This is how I would see my responsibility as a facilitator. I want to
achieve informed consent to the best of my ability, with the sponsor and
with the participants. I share what I know about Open Space Technology and
the depths to which it works, and about the grief cycle. And receive a
commitment of what the sponsor will have in place after the fact, into the
future. And I would satisfy myself through this that I have done my job as a
facilitator.

And of course, I would have a debrief meeting with the sponsor, who cannot
really get the fullness of the Open Space Technology meeting until having
participated in it. And I would see that as the end of my responsibility. I
cannot "control" the outcomes. I can prepare the best situation that I know
how. And then trust.

That is the way I work at present. It may and likely will change as I learn
and grow but it is the best that I know how to do for now and I feel good
about it from a heart/soul and ethical perspective.

I hope this helps with your own thinking.

Birgitt
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-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]On Behalf Of Chris
Corrigan
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 9:05 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Client Curveball No. 321 -- how would you do it?


Thanks for your advice Birgitt, and to all those who responded on this one.
I
know right now that the sponsor is thinking carefully about whether we
should
use OST for this meeting, and I'll be meeting with them next week to discuss
the
approach.

I don't know how you can ever tell anyone that they might be blown apart and
never put back together.  I just don't know.  That raises for me issues
about
when my role as a facilitator ends in terms of my interaction in people's
lives.  It's the question of where to draw a line I think...at what point
does
the contact I have made with people end?  As an Open Space facilitator, I am
opening space for the rest of people's lives?  I know some people are
forever
changed by their experiences in OST meetings -- I was for example, and
fortunately for the better -- but at what point do I let go?

No question that this is an ethics question.  Most meetings that I run with
First Nations participants, no matter what process I use, usually has
someone at
some point break down and cry.  What I have noticed is that this happens
less in
OST but it still happens.  It happened last weekend, for example.  OST opens
people, and who knows where people are in their own greiving cycles?  I work
with people who have been victimized all the time.  Sometimes it's recent,
sometimes not.  Sometimes it's related to the theme and sometimes not.  Just
how
much responsibility *I* am supposed to take for their healing is an open
question in my mind.

Obviously with the meeting under consideration, these issues become
magnified
because I KNOW we are working with victims of violence.  And I appreciate
what
you have to say about this.  I guess I am pushing the ethical question a
little
further into the light with these comments.

Further thoughts?

Chris.

Birgitt Williams wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> my inclination would be not to do this in Open Space Technology.  For me,
> the ethical issues are huge, in capital letters, and simply advising
people
> clearly about the theme and advising of the law of two feet just doesn't
do
> it. In one sense, advising of theme and law of two feet is like getting
> their permission for "whatever happens" if they show up, feeling that they
> are informed. I do not believe that by doing this, true informed consent
is
> given.
>
> In my experience in working with victims of violence for a long time in my
> life, there are layers below layers below layers of pain. The human spirit
> and psyche are very protective and go through the layers at their own
pace.
> I know many people in their 40's and 50's who are just now strong enough
to
> deal with something that happened in their youth.
>
> OST is powerful. And we know it. And we have a huge ethical
responsibility.
> We also know that it is difficult to communicate ahead of time how
powerful
> the meeting is. One does not know the power until one is in it. Negative
> fall out of creating a situation for people to face deeper layers before
> they are naturally ready may not occur during the meeting. Nor even in the
> closing circle. It might all look like a stunning success. In my work with
> youth in our street youth program in the 80's there were a number of group
> meetings trying to get at the deeper layers of what was up with the
> youth --we saw the youth 3 months later and 6 months later due to drug
> overdoses, slashed wrists and other suicide attempts. It wasn't pretty.
The
> common denominator was the meetings that one of the agencies was holding.
> Well intended. They thought they were successful. We raised a public
outcry
> and got them shut down.It wasn't open space technology. Your question
> stirred all of this up. How will you tell them in the invitation that they
> might be blown wide open and that they might not get put back together?
>
> I again state the perception that I have of safe space--we cannot
guarantee
> that the space we create with OST is safe space. What is safe for one is
not
> safe for another.
>
> I wish you well, whatever your choices. If you go ahead with this OST, I
> would encourage you to work carefully with your sponsor group prior to and
> after the event. The meeting might be a success in the short term. To
assist
> success in the long term takes skillful means in honouring the precious
> humans involved with all of the pain that they brought into the meeting
and
> all of the grief that the meeting might stir up.
>
> Birgitt

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CHRIS CORRIGAN
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Open Space Technology

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Vancouver BC
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Phone: 604.683.3080
Fax: 604.683.3036
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