Givens -- Again : law and butterflies

[Chris Corrigan]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:18:14 EST, Joelle Lyons Everett
<jleshelton at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  I like the concept of "vamping until ready."  It puts a name to a
> phenomenon that I have experienced.  Seems that it takes a little time at
> the start of the meeting to let everyone arrive in the room, bring back the
> attention that is scattered to events at home or office, traffic on the
> freeway, glitches in finding the meeting site, etc.  And a bit of taking
> charge of the space before you release it to the participants.
>
>  Joelle * *

Or perhaps not so much taking charge of the space as taking
responsibility for defining the space and inviting people into it:
"Here, I'll walk around for a bit and tell you a few things so you
know there's a space here.  When you are ready, come take it over."

Of course, people are helping you define the space by sitting in the
circle and giving you their attention.  All that plus 10 minutes makes
a container!

Chris

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Open Space Technology

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