FW: The challenge of "luminaries"

[Deborah Hartmann]

Oops... slip of the fingers there. Of course, I meant
 > Thanks for your input, Harrison :-)

lol, I'm pretty brain-dead after a week of relatively open space at 
Agile2007.
Ah, but I do feel good, none the less.
:-)

Deborah Hartmann wrote:
> Thanks for your input Owen. Notes below
>
> Harrison Owen wrote:
>>
>> Deborah -- I think your idea of a "facebook" sent out in advance is a 
>> great one. And it would avoid doing a "round the circle" at the 
>> beginning, which I personally find less than useful for two reasons. 
>> First it delays the actual start when people go to work -- and this 
>> is the most important consideration for me. Secondly, all those names 
>> and needs/wants/desires badly confuses this old mind. After the first 
>> two or three I just hit "overload."  For our up coming OSONOS by the 
>> Sea I sent out a full participant list and invited people to add 
>> whatever information/requests they might want. Some people chose to 
>> remain a mystery (great!) and others wrote a whole bunch. How much of 
>> this actually gets read I don't know, but a number of folks said it 
>> was useful and fun. Since email addresses were also included, the 
>> party started early, which was wonderful.
>>
> I agree. This makes it "pull" - those who want to will go and read. 
> Others don't have it "pushed" on them at the event. Not sure yet how 
> to use Face book for this, but I'll figure it out when I need it next.
>>
>>  
>>
>> I am a little less enthusiastic about special guided tours done by 
>> the facilitator -- though it is certainly a nice idea. I find one of 
>> the great things about an Open Space is the speed with which new 
>> comers are included -- some of this just happens on its own, and in 
>> other cases participants will notice a stranger looking a little lost 
>> and take them under their wing. I really like that as it serves to 
>> build and bond the community. If the lost guest is "important" having 
>> some "just plain folk" do the job can be wonderful. And who knows a 
>> useful connection could be made. At most I (as the facilitator) might 
>> suggest to one of the "older" participants that "so and so" looks a 
>> little lost -- maybe you could take them on a tour -- sort of thing. 
>> That way I can hold the space and members of the community take 
>> active responsibility for the inclusion. Win/Win -- I think.
>>
> I believe, actually, that it happened organically, as you suggest. We 
> had two formal facilitators for the OST... so I was still on the floor 
> and completely oblivious. I didn't notice it at all, since, as you 
> note, other lost visitors had been similarly befriended and introduced 
> to the venue in progress (we had walk-ins off the street, which was 
> thrilling). When we discussed it later, we did reflect that it would 
> have been good for a member of the community to have done it... I'd 
> still call that person a "facilitator", though - just not the one who 
> opened space :-)
>
> This has been a useful conversation for me - I look forward to others' 
> ideas on it too.
> deb
>>
>>  
>>
>> Harrison
>>
>
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