Moving to action

[Harrison Owen]

I guess a more appropriate phrase might be something like, "Opening the
Space for Action." I think that is what Chris Corrigan said (by the way,
Chris seems to have gone missing :-( )I have found that it works best the
morning after -- giving everybody a night to sleep on the work already done,
and maybe reflect on what next. And also morning is always a good time to
start something new. But I have also done it at the end of the day, but
there is an energy problem. 

Harrison

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Phelim
McDermott
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 7:43 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Moving to action

Hi,

I'm interested ... "opening the space again" implies it got closed..  
or does it open wider? How does this fit in to the scheme.. and when  
do you feel the right time is for this in relation to an approaching  
closing? I've been using stickies but as they've been two day events  
without a next day follow on... it always seems to collide a bit with  
closing as people are still writing reports and have just finished  
their last sessions.

Phelim
On 12 Dec 2006, at 12:28, Harrison Owen wrote:


> Diana -- I presumed that you meant to send your response to OSLIST,  
> but it
> came just to me -- so I took the liberty of forwarding it.
>
> And it may well be that my presumptions also got the better of me  
> in my
> response. Your description of your actions made me think of TOP -- The
> Technology of Participation which ICA created perhaps 40 years ago.  
> It was a
> wonderful thing in its day, but boy, did that facilitator work hard  
> fielding
> ideas and arranging affinity groups. My problem with that approach was
> always that the facilitator seemed to be working much too hard, and  
> at a
> practical level, he or she often essentially defined the affinity  
> groups. If
> there had been no other way to go, I guess it is OK -- but my  
> experience
> said that the group could do all of this by itself.
>
> Voting, whether by computers or sticky dots, is pretty low  
> visibility stuff,
> at least as far as the facilitator is concerned. But it does  
> require a full
> listing of the issues discussed. This is typically available in the
> proceedings which had been printed up over night or simply on the  
> wall where
> the issues are posted. But as I said, I personally prefer opening  
> the space
> again for action. This allows the group to rework the shape of the  
> issues,
> either by combining issues, or by identifying some subset. Of  
> course they
> can also identify some totally new area for action. And in any case  
> the
> "rules" are the usual and the presence of the facilitator can be  
> minimal to
> non-existent. By that time in a gathering the group can usually  
> facilitate
> itself.
>
> Harrison

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