Ideas please for a different closing

[Phelim McDermott]

Hi there folks..

  for my workshops I have used a processwork exercise from arny  
mindell which might be useful for a open space closing.....  First  
ask them if they have any questions about how to take the learning  
beyond the open space event... any blocks or things against how to  
take a project into action... then to set the question aside.. the  
next stage is to pick a moment during the whole event which flirts  
with you in your imagination.. it can be any small moment..  often i  
encourage people to think of things that happened  in breaks rather  
than something that has to directly connect with working on stuff. It  
made them laugh or even annoyed or disturbed them..

then you think of the quality of that moment and put it into your  
hand and move it with that quality.. if you want you can get people  
to let it go into their whole bodies.. ask them to distill the  
essence of it.. ask them how they might need more of that quality in  
their life or how it might answer the question of how to take this  
work back into... "The real world".  Or how it might answer their  
earlier question?  Does it have an answer...?  The answers that come  
can often be surprising!  If this quality was a lyfestyle what would  
it support you to do!!

If you get people to take it into their whole bodies it releases an  
incredible energy.. seeing people how they really are!!!

just a thought.

Phelim

www.improbable.co.uk


On 15 Nov 2005, at 16:16, Lisa Heft wrote:

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> Hi, Jimmy --
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> [I have changed to title of our message to more closely reflect the  
> content, as it has shifted from finding folks in San Antonio to  
> describing what is an inquiry circle. That will make it easier for  
> anyone who may be looking up topics in the OSLIST archives at some  
> future time.]
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> Chris mentioned in an earlier message an Inquiry Circle I hosted at  
> the Open Space on Open Space world gathering in Halifax this August  
> - and Cliodhna had indeed asked us to share a description - so:  
> thank you, Jimmy for explaining it (I’ve been away with precious  
> little time at my computer).
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> Jimmy wrote:
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> < A format that I witnessed at last year's National Coalition for
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> Dialogue and Democracy conference was an inquiry circle among a group
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> of speakers before a plenary.  Six speakers spoke for several minutes
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> on what they saw in the future for dialogue and deliberation.  In the
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> inquiry circle, the facilitator posed a question to the first
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> speaker.  The first speaker answered that question.  They then posed
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> a new question for the next speaker, etc., until all had answered a
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> question.  The went around a couple of times. Thus, a small group on
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> stage had a type of dialogue that the large group witnessed.>
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> That is indeed where I learned it.  I was so excited, also, to  
> experience an audience-engagement panel process.  A further detail  
> - after the facilitator gave a question to the first panelist, who  
> answered it, shared a few thoughts on the subject and 'gifted' a  
> question to the next panelist, and so on through the ‘panel’ of  
> invited speakers - then the facilitator turned to the audience with  
> the last panelist's question to gift it to us.  The audience was  
> sitting at small round tables seating 4 or 5 people.  We continued  
> the inquiry process at our individual tables.  After going around  
> the table, the full group was reconvened in plenary to share  
> threads and thoughts.
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> It was a really marvelous experience, as it was in our great group  
> in Halifax.  I just love it - it is a wonderful co-created  
> experience inviting deep listening and mutual appreciation.
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>
> Cheers from Berkeley, California, USA (I may be returning to San  
> Antonio Texas next for further work with the OpenSpaceniks there -  
> ask Don, Jimmy and maybe you can join us),
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> Lisa
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