SV: Transfer in Process

[Thomas Herrmann]

Thanks for an interesting conversation of transfer in processes.
I use a transfer in exercise starting most meetings that are not Open Space
meetings. I use a format I learnt from Birgitt Williams - Whole Person
Process Facilitation. One thing that strikes many participants is how fast
they get into the actual core of the meeting. In my experience people also
"open up" and speak from their heart this way.

For me this has worked wonderfully in my pre-meetings and I now also use
this process in follow up meetings after an Open Space meeting. One detail I
could share at the same time is that I use a digital camera to take pictures
from the flip charts the participants and I use in these meetings. That
makes it a lot easier for me/my sponsor and everybody gets the documentation
at their computor the very same day.
Greetings
Thomas Herrmann, Kungsbacka, Sweden

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Ämne: Re: Transfer in Process


  At 08:37 PM 6/23/2002 -0400, Doug. Germann wrote:


    Harrison, you do seem to use a transfer in process--for you it is
silence
    and time to look at the people around the circle. That seems true, at
least
    if what I suspect is going on in a transfer-in, *is* what is going on:
you
    are breaking the preoccupations people bring to the meeting and getting
    their minds and spirits in the same place as their bodies.

    The difference is that the stories bring people there for others to see,
    and the silence brings them there in a potentially deeper, less visible,
    way.

  Sure --- and I suppose you could think of the whole Open Space as a
"Transfer-In Process" But my real point is to minimize the number of things
I add or do which have the tendency to keep the people from the central of
getting on with their business. Over the years I have practiced a single
design principle when working with Open Space: Think of one more thing NOT
to do. My effort was to keep stripping away all the things that could be
done, or might be nice to do -- in order to leave the bare essentials,
whatever they were. At the beginning, it just seemed like a good thing (not)
to do. But from my present perspective, in which Open Space is really all
about the power of self-organization, one of things we have learned is that
self-organization slows or stops when you add a bunch of stuff. Less stuff,
more power.  I am sure there are a few more things I could throw out, but I
guess I feel pretty comfortable with the little that I do. Added to that, I
have yet to see any "add on" (beyond Walk the circle, announce the theme,
explain the mechanics/principles, and go to work) that added anything
substantive to the total experience.

  Harrison

  Harrison Owen


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