re honouring each other

[Harold Shinsato]

Dear Michael M,

The "forbidding" aspect of a space with this many listeners for me had 
nothing to do with the "size" of people taking up the space as it did 
the pure size of the group and the number of listeners who felt like 
strangers. True, the power and value of the content and the contributors 
raised a high bar, but it's certainly not because it seemed to me like 
anyone was "hogging" the space. If anything, this is an amazingly 
welcoming group for its size and I'm certain it's because of the Open 
Space principles. I could also see that questions were always warmly 
received and answered, but I still felt after I joined that I'd better 
have a really good question to post before I dared to do so.

It makes it a lot easier for me to post now that I've been in actual 
Open Space events with a number of the active contributors. In some 
ways, the OpenSpaceWorld.ning.com site also makes it easier to post - 
because over there I can see a lot of your faces and it's easier to feel 
the humanity of many of those posting - as well as being in smaller 
circle conversations. Like they say in writing and speaking classes, 
know your audience. It just takes more time with a group with 600+ 
listeners.

    Harold

Michael M Pannwitz wrote:
> Dear Michael Dobbie,
> hope you have a great time in Australia and run into many of the 
> os-workers there! Are you facilitating os-events there or do 
> os-related stuff? I remember
> Since I have always just simply participated in the oslist, the aspect 
> of being invited never came to my mind. Maybe that contributes to what 
> Harold (and many, as he states) perceives as "forbidding", fat guys 
> like me taking up the space.
> The "roll call" in process did reveal to me that there are many on the 
> list who are mostly in the "learning" mode (as in the Law: "I honor a 
> group with my absence if I neither learn nor contribute. If I learn, I 
> stay, If I contribute, I stay. But if neither nor, I leave.")
> By the way, I noticed that the email you used in your post varies from 
> the one in your info box in the Open Space World Map...let me know if 
> you would like to have it adjusted).
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp 

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