Multiple Facilitator Roles in Open Space

[Jack Ricchiuto]

My experience is that the "one facilitator" is simply the initial meta-inviter - the one who invites others to invite others into the natural unfolding of sessions. There may be then in all dozens of "facilitators" who participate in the unfolding of space. In that sense, the power and passion and responsibility of facilitation is distributed/decentralized, as power and passion and responsibility is in any healthy self-organizing system.

Jack

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jack ricchiuto
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------------Original Message------------
From: Andrew Rixon <Andrew.Rixon at csiro.au>
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Date: Tue, May-3-2005 3:02 AM
Subject: Multiple Facilitator Roles in Open Space
Dear All,

In traditional forms of group processes there is ‘room’ for co-facilitation, ie, where more than one facilitator can work together with the group.

It appears (based on my limited learnings in Open space) that there is ‘room’ for only ONE Open Space facilitator within a group?

I would be interested to hear your views regarding this…

Kind regards,
Andrew


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Urban Water Infrastructure
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