Hosting and holding space

[Pat Black]

Interesting question Wendy.  The difference between hosting and holding
space is where my attention goes.  Holding space by attention is only on the
space and what it requires.  In hosting I attend to the beings inside the
space and what they need to thrive in the space.
Pat Black


On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Wendy Farmer-O'Neil <wendy at xe.net> wrote:

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