Virgin OSer needs reassurance!

[kerry napuk]

Dear Joanna and Jasmine

I feel the hardest task of a facilitator is to let go and give up any 
notion of control.  After all, it is the participants' event, not 
yours.  They own the process and the outcomes.  You are just there to 
show them how it works.

So, advice about trusting the process is spot on.  But, more 
important, trust yourself!  As Harrison says, if you have a good 
heart and know about the process, it will be fine.

Brian Bainbridge gave me comfort at one OSonOS by saying that he 
always forgot to mention something during the introduction but the 
process always worked.  So, don't worry about that either.

People have an innate desire to engage with each other and society 
has created structures and organisations to stop this happening. 
Once space is opened, therefore, Harrison advises you to just get out 
of the way - human nature will do everything else!

Convergence is another topic with many different views.  We prefer 
voting by dots to create priority issues and taking the priorities 
with any other issues that emerge into action planning.  The more 
time you have, the more time for planning and creation of action 
teams.

Good luck and let the OSLIST know how you get on.

Kind regards

Kerry
Open Futures
Edinburgh
Scotland
www.openfutures.com

*
*
==========================================================
OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
------------------------------
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu:
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html

To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20060905/76de7f7c/attachment-0016.htm>