Hosting and holding space

Wendy Farmer-O'Neil wendy at xe.net
Wed Jul 7 10:00:50 PDT 2010


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On 7-Jul-10, at 8:47 AM, doug wrote:

> Hi--
>
> In a recent post, http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?p=2839 Chris
> Corrigan says "there is no outside."
>
> Chris has got me thinking again of the interplay of hosting and  
> holding
> space.
>
> As I see it today, holding space means having a view towards the  
> health
> of the whole system that is in the room—a global view that is larger
> than the participants might have. So it is not noticing themes,  
> because
> my experience is that the facilitator is not into the trees enough to
> notice the paths in the woods.
>
> It is more that the facilitator is seeing that the woods is healthy  
> for
> all the beings there—little animals and large, birds and insects and
> flowers and trees. Of course that is an impossible task, since no  
> one is
> managing the forest. The forest self organizes itself.
>
> So we pick up the coffee cups and candy bar wrappers and pop cans that
> people semi-consciously leave behind and we let those who are active  
> in
> the conversations know by our invisible presence that they are doing
> things exactly right: whatever happens....
>
> So can this be done from within the system? Is there any outside? Is
> there not a certain hubris in thinking we can stay above and outside  
> and
> hold the space...what? Together?
>
> How is hosting related to holding space? When can the space holder  
> enter
> the conversation swirling about?
>
> 				:- Doug.
>
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Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
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