Moving from "help me think this through"..

[Winston Kinch]

John, I appreciate your comment on Ted's question (below), and also the way
it is phrased. It leads me to make this observation and ask this question.
There have been a number of  threads over the past while, Ted's being the
latest, which have touched on the question of the facilitator's involvement
in the "content" of OS meetings. There are clearly divergent opinions on
this, just as there were (still are?) on the topic of "convergence". There
are those (unless I am alone in this opinion) who hold that the facilitator
should "hold the space" but not intervene except to ward off space
invaders - in other words overt interventions only when necessary, and then
only process related. Others clearly, and in good spirit as you have just
demonstrated, think the facilitator may properly also be a topic convener,
for example.  This is well and good as there is presumably no one "right"
or "best" way to open space as a facilitator...  or is there, at least on
this question?

Does this community converge (:-)) around either of these positions? Or is
the answer context (theme, group) dependent? Or does the answer perhaps
depend on the level of consciousness the facilitator brings to the
situation?

Winston

----- Original Message -----
From: "john engle" <englejohn at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: help me think this through?


> dear ted,
>
> i enjoyed reading about HM. i have heard of it by name but had no idea of
> its scope. would be grateful if you can provide a website so that i can
> learn more.
>
> my colleagues and i frequently facilitate open space meetings on broad
> themes concerning education and leadership. we frequently will post a
> session during the open space event on a subject like "using open space
to
> help organizations become more effective" or "using wonn refleksyon  to
> improve education." wonn refleksyon is another method we
> promote-(touchstones.org : web site for more info on it)
>
> neither i nor my colleagues have found it to be a problem when one of us
> facilitates open space and also posts a session during the day inviting
> people who are interesting in learning more about these two methods to
join
> us in a small group.
>
>
> john

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