Dealing with New Entrants to OS sessions

[Chris Weaver]

Re: Dealing with New Entrants to OS sessionsJack, thanks for sharing your
introduction experiments.  I've tried some similar things (although never to
start an OST meeting) and I enjoy the lively humming fertility of the energy
when everyone settles back into their seats.  I've never tried "closing the
triangle" but I like it a lot & look forward to adding it next time.

Chris

Chris Weaver
Springbranch, Inc.
Asheville, North Carolina USA
chris at springbranch.us
http://springbranch.us




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  My practice parallels Michael’s – non-intrusive presence, which is
different than absence. Whenever there is any kind of awkwardness in the
group, I just stay present to it with faith in the self-organizing qualities
of any living system that emerge naturally unless someone tries to interrupt
it. I also don’t ask people to express expectations in the beginning and set
a tone off fluidity where people feel free to come and go, so anyone coming
in later comes in a fairly seamless way.

  I’ve also experimented recently with a different approach to introductions
where I have people mill around and interview someone they don’t know or don
’t know well. This is done mainly in groups sharing enough common languages
to do this. Then I have them do what my social network colleagues call
“closing the triangle”. They then introduce their new people to someone they
already know. It’s always chaos in the best sense of the word as people
reconfigure into small groups where the energy is awesome. Then we open the
space where the field is richer for the process.

  Jack


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