The lights are on!

[Mike Copeland]

Greetings All

I feel I've been a voyeur of your amazing sharings and learning's over the
past three months and feel it is time to launch into cyber space with my
experience of this Open Space stuff.

I work as an environmental educator with communities and have realised my
need for better facilitation skills for a little while now. I duly trained
in Open Space with Helen Patterson in early March this year.  Since then I
have opened space three times. Little has prepared me for the change that is
currently taking place with myheart, my head and eyes!.

Everywhere I look I see space opening and closing!  I have a name for that
awful feeling I have when I see my contribution getting systematically
picked to pieces and given back to me in tatters; conversely I have a name
for when people truly act with integrity.

I used to think I was a great facilitatator, could read a group, could
intervene just at the right moment, could hold it together under huge
adversity...; I can tell you I was tired!

Big question:
How do people survive the heirarchical structures we have out there?
How do people live with/out open space in their own lives?

Now I'm on this trail I really don't want to be living and working in any
other way.

All the best
Mike Copeland





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