multiple facilitator roles

Lisa Heft lisaheft at openingspace.net
Wed May 4 11:55:13 PDT 2005


Hi, Wendy - and welcome!

You wrote:
< I find that I am wanting to create a support team who understand Open
Space and who will help to maintain the continuum or field of experience
for the participants.  I understand that it is not necessary for
successful OST facilitation, but I am wondering if it is worth
experimenting to see if there is a qualitative difference for the
participants and/or the facilitator--a deepening, I suppose.  I guess I
am seeing a tandem approach to facilitation, where one facilitator takes
on the "face time" as Harrison put it, while the other provides
support--at the wall, at the computer stations--wherever presence can
arise to open more space.    Thoughts?>


I always have or create a "Dream Team" (that's what I call it) of the
host and their colleagues.  These are my fellow space holders.  They are
the ones whom I feel carry the energy and spirit of the event both
before it (in their planning, their invitation and community building)
and after it (in sustaining the momentum post-event).  So the energy
does not revolve around me or a team I might bring in.

Just my way of thinking about it (what do others think?)

Lisa
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