Taking a Nap

Mikk Sarv mikk at ilm.ee
Sun Jan 30 06:06:59 PST 2005


Harrison,
it is as you wrote: you just have to let it all go. This is the tricky
thing. And it is directly related to the time and effort you spend earlier,
before the event. When you have succeeded to heap up in the room and in
yourself a good amount of feeling and caring for the group, it's much easier
to let it go.
Usually during training there is not so much time for the trainees to spend
enough time with preparation before they actually jump in, and this perhaps
makes more hard for them also to let it go to the limit you take a nap.
Still the bushy and nervous mode doesn't make things better and the best is
to try out how it is to be out for a while.
Mikk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at comcast.net>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 3:22 PM
Subject: Taking a Nap


> Mikk and Funda - -
>
> I never really thought about it, but it may be (as Mikk suggests) that
> taking a nap is more than an accommodation to my own needs. There is no
> secret as far as I am concerned that by the time I have gone through the
> opening of the space, I am pretty well bushed. I start a lot earlier than
> the participants with some quiet time for myself (meditation), come into
the
> room way before anybody else just to get the feel and sense of the place,
> and then of course there are all the complex :-) practicalities to take
care
> of like magic markers and Post-its. Once all that is done a whoosh of
> energetic anticipation erupts, groups form, lots of chaos -- and then
> (usually) silence if everybody has gone to breakout rooms. I am just plain
> tuckered out and a nap, or definitely a long quiet walk, is the only
option.
> Certainly seems like the right thing to do.
>
> But I can see Mikk's point. It is all about letting go and opening up some
> more space as well. In order to take a good nap -- you just have to let it
> all go. Otherwise you just toss and turn, and the nap is useless. And by
> physically removing myself, more space inevitably opens. For anybody who
> thought I was going to take charge, my absence puts that silly notion to
> rest. Of course, there have even been times when I had no (other) place to
> go and found a quiet corner in the main room. Talk about sleeping on the
> job!
>
> There may be something else here as well. I have noticed over the years
that
> my most useful thinking seems to take place when I am asleep. (Don't
laugh!)
> Given a real knotty problem that is going nowhere near solution -- I find
> that the best thing to do is "sleep on it." More often than not, when the
> morning comes, the way forward is clearer. I suspect that the secret is
that
> I have given my good old subconscious some space and time to work in --
> without all the distractions of waking state. I would guess that the same
> sort of thing happens in dream-time in Open Space. I am no longer
distracted
> by all the words and externals, and have a real opportunity to appreciate
> the emerging possibility space the group has created and is busy
exploring.
>
> How is that for a rationalization? But anyhow, I think naps are wonderful.
>
> Harrison
>
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Mikk
Sarv
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 5:27 AM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Re: facilitator & sponsor identity
>
> Dear Funda,
> during last OS facilitator's training I provided, the becoming
facilitators,
> who tried out opening space for others found out, that just "taking a nap"
> is the most challenging, but most efficient exercise to get the space
> opened.
> With best greetings,
> Mikk Sarv
> Estonia
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Funda Oral" <fundaoral at ttnet.net.tr>
> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 12:12 PM
> Subject: Re: facilitator & sponsor identity
>
>
> > thank you Harrison...this is really the best job in the world; the
> responsibility is "taking a nap" :-)
> >
> > > Kimden: Harrison Owen <hhowen at comcast.net>
> > > Tarih: 2005/01/28 Cum PM 11:47:22 GMT+02:00
> > > Kime: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> > > Konu: Re: facilitator & sponsor identity
> > >
> > > Funda - for you Anything! Yes I think you have it just right. The
> sponsor(s)
> > > is the one(s) who needs the space opened. And the Facilitator is the
> person
> > > who does the work. This also includes taking a nap if I am the
> facilitator.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Harrison
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Harrison Owen
> > >
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> > >
> > > Potomac, Maryland   20845
> > >
> > > Phone 301-365-2093
> > >
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> > >
> > >
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
Funda
> Oral
> > > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 8:38 AM
> > > To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> > > Subject: facilitator & sponsor identity
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Referring to my last (today's) answer to  Zachary's question. I think
i
> > > confuse the role of the facilitator and the
> > >
> > > sponsor.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I want to share with you while trying to clear my mind;
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -there is a "question" that is worth opening a space
> > >
> > > -sponsor is the one who should be sensitive to the question in the
> subject
> > >
> > >  and looking for the answers
> > >
> > > -faciliator should be neutral...he is not looking for the answers...he
> > > doesn't need to listen or
> > >
> > >  read the answers. He just makes a formal introduction among the
> sponsor,
> > > guests and the
> > >
> > >  question...and explains the method (OST)...and that's it....so
> facilitator
> > > should be really
> > >
> > >  without any identity, expectation, neutral...even doesn't have any
> interest
> > > in the question and answers
> > >
> > >  and be able to leave sponsors and guests alone and free....
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > So the facilitator's main role should be offer a space to those who
> should
> > > own and solve their issue
> > >
> > > where the facilitator doesn't have any responsibility or stake.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I appreciate any comment on that, especially from Harrison.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > Funda
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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