Facilitator must be part of the conversations

[douglas germann]

Lisa is so articulate, that she has given us a wonderful starting point.
Thank you Lisa! Here is some of what Lisa said, kind of a found poem:

...inherent power dynamic
...To be a clean and clear holder of space so that they can do their
best work.
...I try to be aware of my body language
...it is their work, not mine.
...I will make sure to then get up and leave before I find that the
conversation is question and answer with Lisa.
...I am careful not to direct or recommend content
...I don't stay in group conversations.... my role that day is to hold
space for them.
...offering my fullest self...in service to them, to their work.
...dear readers


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?

For one thing there might be here a presumption that we are somehow
separate and apart from the group we are with.... We are not part of
their system, but part of another.... A kind of scientific/experimental
attitude that we can somehow quarantine them so they have no tinge of
observer participancy.... Yes? Something like this? Something else? Or
more?

			:- Doug.

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