Hosting and holding space

[doug]

Pat--

That is an evocative picture! Thank you for taking me in a different
direction.

			:- Doug.



On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 13:29 -0500, Pat Black wrote:
> 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
>         
>         
>         ;)
>         
>         w
>         
>         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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