What a facilitator does when she holds space

[Masud Sheikh]

On another thread, I wrote that OS evokes the following thought in
me 'That it a way to peace, where we submit to the power of self-
organizing'.

That does not make a facilitator into God, but if humans are vice-regents
of God on Earth, then the ideal facilitator tries to develop as many
attributes of God as possible, staring with compassion - perhaps, maybe? I
guess the Godly attribute of compassion might make our inner space grow
Masud

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:20:24 +0400, Raffi Aftandelian <raffi at bk.ru> wrote:
>
>And later it dawned on me: I have for a while thought of OST being a
>very fast means of humans consciously recreating all of nature's
>processes in a bounded environment (think the biosphere experiment).
>And this led me on to the aha...if the facilitator is opening a space
>for nature to happen, then the facilitator is...God!
>
>What does God do to make grass grow? Nothing.
>
>I am curious what others think of this God model of facilitation. I
>almost shared this "model" with this participant, but my instinct got
>the better of me. That is not the thing you should EVER, probably,
>tell someone interested in OST.
>
>That realization is something people need to come to themselves. It's
>just downright scary for one thing.
>
>And this brings me to the how of holding space. Of course, for each
>person God is/acts/is called something different, so the nature of
>that held space will be different.
>
>People's thoughts?
>
>Raffi
>

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