What is the message of OST?

[Harrison Owen]

At 10:52 PM 7/22/2002 +0100,  Martin wrote:
>Judi writes:
>
> >As an OST facilitator, if I truly believe the expertise is in the room,
> then it is simple to only give input to matters of holding space...
>
>Here's how it is for me: Sometimes the expertise isn't in the room.
>Sometimes people don't know what they don't know. Sometimes, like fish,
>they can't see the water they are swimming around in. If I can see
>something that they can't, or if I have some knowledge that I honestly
>think they need, then I may find myself contributing. I may even make a
>forceful intervention. It's more about responding with integrity in the
>moment than about following rules and models.

Your choice of course. But I find it useful to think more about the
learning the group could achieve in the search for the knowledge they need.
Something about teaching people to fish as opposed to providing a sauteed
filet of sole. I suppose if I had the magic bullet they required I would at
least think about offering my pearls of wisdom. But only think about it. In
most cases, I  prefer that they figure it out for themselves. It is
something (once done) they will never forget -- neither the knowledge or
the experience. And having done it once, they can do it again -- which is
the whole point for me. I guess I also find that my pearls of wisdom, which
looked brilliant to me, don't quite make it with the folks. They rather
like their own.

Harrison

Harrison Owen
7808 River Falls Drive
Potomac, MD 20854 USA
phone 301-365-2093
Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com
Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org
Personal website www.mindspring.com\~owenhh

OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu
Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20020722/3d8d2c0a/attachment-0017.htm>