Tibetan temple bells

[Diane Gibeault]

It's my practice too to let the sponsor open as you describe Michael so the
organization and all participants understand that they own the experience
and are responsible for the results, not the facilitator. 

I have had reactions like the ones you describe Raffi from certain cultural
groups who associate any kind of bells with the authoritarian educational
and religious institutions in which they grew up. So using bells only for
evening news etc makes it more acceptable - by that point they have become
comfortable with the OS process, with each other  and they are now focused
on their experience and not the facilitation or the method. I also make
comments similar to what Chris and others have described which help the
acceptance of the bells as another nice contribution of the OS approach. 

Diane

-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael M
Pannwitz
Sent: 19 mars 2008 18:24
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Tibetan temple bells

Dear Raffi,
since I do not open the space at events that I facilitate I dont use the 
  temple bells at that juncture, of course. It is the sponsor that opens 
the space and after having done that asks me to introduce the process. 
No need for bells at that point.
They do come in handy to "call" people to evening news or during action 
planning when there is a "schedule"...I use them as little as possible 
and very gently not to overwhelm myself or those around me.
Right at this moment I also think of them as being "Tibetan" temple 
bells with that part of the world being in great turmoil.
Usually, they are just very practical!
Greetings from Berlin
mmp

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