multiple facilitator roles

[Wendy Farmer-O'Neil]

Thanks, Lisa!

I like your idea of a Dream Team.  That's a great way of framing it that I think will help me in inviting sponsors to a deeper level of responsibility and action.  

I am not so much thinking of the energy revolving around an outside team, as providing a serving/supporting energy so that my sponsors and their colleagues can be present in their participation in the event -- this may be more relevant to my particular situation, where most of my work is with small agencies where the sponsors are clear about wanting to give full attention to their participation and not have to worry about whether the printer is going to work, or to be seen as 'facilitating/organizing' in any way on the day of--they just want to be one more ant (thanks, Harrison :))...

Cheers,
Wendy


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lisa Heft 
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:55 AM
  Subject: Re: multiple facilitator roles


  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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