Begining in OS

[Cliodhna Mulhern]

Lisap
I am not sure where this started but I love this thread...it reminds  
me that that i have finally and at last (after a struggle) espoused  
the value  that the more of us there are opening space and working  
affirmatively the better for everyone...including each of us...

I honour the wisdom and generosity you bring to our listserv...your  
wisdom is the wisdom of the natural world where we are learning that  
collaboration is more sustainable than competition...

The most powerful  powerful piece of work I have been part of happened  
recently when I asked the client system to provide four of their  
people (self-selected)  to be my co-facilitators for a piece of work  
that was to last 6 months...these learner co-facilitators supported me  
in our first large scale event...several events and workshops later we  
were bringing the work to a close with a  the final event. By this  
time  I was in a support role to them as event facilitators...when I  
left the venue at the end of the day they hardly noticed me  
leaving...because they were completely in their own power...no longer  
needing me...

They email me with updates on the progress of their task...the renewal  
of a deprived housing estate in the North of England...the impact of  
the work we did together is reverberating across the system...the  
changes for and by local people living on that estate are huge...the  
pace of change rapid...the energy still high...I am sure all this is  
the case because of sharing our practice in this way...

So my experience is that collaboration, to share is more generative  
and more sustaining for everyone...Cliodhna

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