Hosting and holding space

[Wendy Farmer-O'Neil]

Hi Michael,

To clarify, it was Doug who asked the question. My post was a response  
to it.  Doug's post is below:

W

On 7-Jul-10, at 12:34 PM, Michael M Pannwitz 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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