Cross Cultural Facilitation

[Tree Fitzpatrick]

I agree with Harrison, deeply, when he says

  My real point was to underscore how, at least in my experience, Open Space
> apparently operates well below the levels of culture, ethnicity, gender,
> economics, etc. I find this to be both strange and wonderful.
>
I fervently and completely believe all roads lead to open space, that the
practice of open space is exactly the path to the practice of peace and a
shift in planetary consciousness and nirvana on earth. I am, you might say,
a bit dogmatic.
 But I also know, and by writing this I do not suggest that anyone opposes
and/or agrees with what I am about to write, that human beings operate on
multiple levels of consciousness, that people come to events at all stages
of consciousness and that a good facilitator takes that into consideration.
Just like we know that when we design a training, we should aspire to
incorporate learning exercises that will address all the different learning
styles, I think facilitators have to hold space for multiple levels of
consciousness.
 I freely concede that I am always holding space consciously to embrace the
disparities of rank and privilege between males and females. And I aspire to
hold space consciously for disparities of race and culture. . . but I am
just a work in progress, eh?

 Warmly,
> Tree Fitzpatrick
> "It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Elliot
>

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