the circle, luminaries, personal growing edges

[Chris Corrigan]

Kaliya....

This is a really interesting thing to notice.  There is not a lot of
experience among OST facilitators with communities that develop the capacity
over time to really be in Open Space, especially communities that are as big
and networked as the social media sector.  Some of us have been lucky enough
to run these experiments  Your learning here is contributing much to my own
reflections on how groups get comfortable and then skilful with the
technologies that can take them to deeper and deeper places of engagement.
Unconferencing is really the mainstream tipping point that many of us have
been imagining would happen in the tech world for probably 15 years.  It's
great to see the way it is unfolding, and to see that the process is being
stewarded and cared for by you and others like Deborah, Michael and Ted (and
probably others too) as the social networking world discovers the creative
potential of itself in meatspace.

Cheers,

Chris

On 8/21/07, Kaliya Hamlin <kaliya at mac.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 21, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Raffi Aftandelian wrote:
>
> What personal growing edges, if any, - read: blindspots- are contributing
> to
> making the choices and experiencing the difficulties you have mentioned in
> the recent threads in working with OST?
>
> Might deciding not to work in a circle because it is felt that IT people
> are
> not ready for it be robbing them of the opportunity to experience
> something
> that might help them be much more productive?
>
>
> What I put forward to you has worked really well for me in the Tech
> communities I have grown and cultivated.
>
>  I have an very high level of credibility and trust among very very senior
> people in the industry (to people in BIG corporations) in part because I
> built trust with them and the community I helped to build "OVER TIME" (we
> are having our 5th event in the fall (we do them every 6 months).  This last
> OST we closed with a group poem. My goal with each event is to expand their
> process horizons every time.
>
>  These people now tell me they have a much lower tolerance for 'talking
> heads' conferences and events with 5 papers....they are in love with open
> space.
>
>   Part of the reason for this I believe was my choice - my perception of
> where they were at culturally as a group and what i could do - interms  of
> pushing their boundaries - (having NO agenda was already pushing it at the
> beginning) an not going 'over board' in the pushing. It is not like I had a
> client or committee I was pleasing by not doing a circle- I was it - the
> designer/facilitator (I always run my event designs by my co-producer and a
> process ally in my tech community)..
>
>
> I have participated in OST meetings which did not begin or end in a
> circle.
> And, I am not sure they invite the whole person. What, in that case, are
> we
> inviting?
>
>
> Fine.  The point is they start to show up - the whole person can emerge in
> time in a community.  Me alienating them at the beginning culturally.
>
> "Luminaries" is a curious word. What might we call the rest of the people
> at
> a gathering with this social group present?
>
>
> They are just more 'famous' then the other people there - they are
> normally keynoters, or at the very panalists regularly at a certain circuit
> of events.  They can also be 'internet famous' or just someone respected in
> their field.
>
> Regards, =Kaliya
>
>
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