Facilitator must be part of the conversations

[Lisa Heft]

Dear all -

Jack's and Marc's comments make me think that our holding space for the
group - for both the client and the participants - is the embodiment of 
trust.  We breathe, we believe, we trust the people and the process, we
are always there (in physical presence and or in Harrison's case at times
in our dream state during our naps ;o)  ).  We are completely present.

I do not feel it is separate from or outside the group.  I feel we are all
very much interrelated.  We are (in the Open Space event) all part of a
vast living system (of systems, of systems, of systems...)...with one (or
a duo or team) of us holding space, to be midwife to emergent life, to
witness, if you will, the marvelous transformation we (the space-holders)
know is happening at every moment - on levels from the cellular to the
stellar to the realms we little tiny humans cannot even know.

We breathe, we trust, we hold trust.  We help others breathe....and
trust...and trust themselves...


Lisa


Lisa Heft
lisaheft at openingspace.net
http://www.openingspace.net

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>From  Wed Aug  1 10:27:49 2007
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Thanks, Elwin!

Can we then trust ourselves?

			:- Doug

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 20:45 -0700, Elwin and Joan wrote:
>  Douglas,
> 
> Oh Boy! What a challenge particularly when Harrison has articulated
> the meaning, power and critical importance of Spirit (always
> capitalized) in his many writings.
> 
> Here’s Elwin’s cryptic take on Spirit:
> 
>  It’s that something inside that not all possess that allows those
> who do to stand in the center of a circle of others and “know” that a
> transformation is about to unfold. 
> That person has absolute faith in the process of bringing people
> together in a circle and inspiring (in spirit) them to be free!
> 
> It’s the ever present joy that one gets when they absolutely trust
> people of free mind to create new beginnings and find new
> understandings; enlightenment! 
> 
> eg
> 
> --- douglas germann <76066.515 at compuserve.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > All of which raises the question, what is behind this? What are
> > the
> > > > assumptions that lead us all to say things like this (I have
> > said
> > > > them, too, and often)? What is beneath the surface of these
> > waters?
> > > 
> > > SIMPLY LIFE'S ESSENTIAL: SPIRIT!
> > 
> > Elwin--
> > 
> > Please say more....
> > 
> > 			:- Doug.
> > 
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