[OSList] re energy field of the facilitator and its influence onOST outcomes
bill aal
waal at toolsforchange.org
Fri Aug 5 09:51:42 PDT 2011
Elisabeth,
Well said and
Hmmm,
I wonder if its invisible or is it non-attached. I hold the healing,
conflict playing ( not resolution) and facilitation roles as being
non-attached partners in transformation. The idea that we should be
neutral, or invisible is a really western concept that there is an outside
place to stand.
Harrison's comments about being the grounding (negative)for the energy to
move resonates with me, but Harrison's presence is itself a force, who he
is, his reputation, his very being shifts the field. And I think that’s
true for each of us. And we each carry intention with us when we walk in
the room, not for outcome, but for the container or for the highest good to
emerge or whatever... That impacts the space.
So how we hold those roles and relationships in humble, non-attached,
compassionate ways makes all the difference in the world. I would also say
that many healthy people that I know all have healers they work with to
maintain balance. The idea that we can and should go it alone again seems
very culture bound and in my view unhealthy. I think the same is true for
organizations and communities always striving for self-empowerment and
responsibility. And always open to getting a hand when it seems useful,
whether to stimulate new thinking or ways of doing things or to help us
through rough times. Sometimes we can't get to the clearing in the deep
forest without having a guide to help us cut through the brush.....
Here is to living into open space
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From: elitepperk at gmail.com [mailto:elitepperk at gmail.com]
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Reading all these comments I decided to share something that I remembered
from a space in my heart.
I was in a coaching ws and someone talked about being transparency and the
word invisible popped out from my heart. Being a facilitator, a coach, or
doing therapeutic work I feel the best thing to be is invisible. Not easy!
Not easy at all! Especially due to our beliefs.
And I do know that the more invisible I am and the more responsible the
client is, the more effective is my work!
Love
Elisabeth
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Thank you friends,
There are so many stories of what OST is about, many assumptions, and from
that, many different choices of actions and non-actions. I think that it is
useful for OST facilitators to expand their consciousness. Heart Math is a
great path to the mind heart coherence. I believe that in OST: a user's
guide, there is mention of having a good head and a good heart.
What if, just what if, with all our stories and assumptions, it is time for
an upgrade of how we view the facilitator. I know that my computer does not
work with the same operating system that I might have used in 1995...if I
tried that, none of the great and upgraded software I want to use would be
able to function...or function well. I think it is worth looking at
ourselves as OST facilitators and exploring the operating system that we
operate from...including wondering about the need for an upgrade of the
'personal operating system of the OST facilitator'.
I think that twenty years ago, the operating system of the facilitator of
having a good head, a good heart, and a copy of OST: a user's guide, was
enough of an operating system for the facilitator. Today, to get the results
both during and after the meeting that OST has the potential for, I can
imagine needing an upgraded operating system for the facilitator. Would it
include ensuring that I have mind-heart coherence? Would it include that I
embrace expanding my consciousness? Would it include knowledge of how to
work with energy fields so that the participants could align to the energy
field of the facilitator, or better yet the facilitation team who knows how
to be in energy alignment with each other, or better yet the facilitation
team combined with the sponsor team who knows how to be in energy alignment
with each other? Can we move beyond the 'self organizing system' to
something more by our energy field as the facilitator and its influence on
OST?
I experience that humans have evolved a lot in their consciousness in the
last twenty years and that we continue to accelerate in our development. I
experience that young people are at a different level of consciousness at a
young age and that numbers of them know how to work with energy fields and
expanded consciousness. Do we need an upgrade...not in what we do with the
form of OST..but in ourselves as facilitators, our state of being, our work
with energy fields, and our consciousness?
Warmly,
Birgitt
Ps to Michael...possibly next year in Berlin en route to Tuscany
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From: Michael M Pannwitz [mailto:mmpanne at boscop.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 4:36 AM
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Dear Birgitt,
from where I stand, space always is. So no need to open it. Often, however,
the space is not very large and sometimes it is shrunk to a mere dot in the
universe.
And then there is the question, what on earth the space is for, no matter
how huge or how tiny. To me, in this context, it is the playground for
selforganisation to do its thing.
And then, selforganisation always is.
So, here I have space always and selforganisation always.
What then is the role/function of me and others involved in a situation
where an urgent issue needs to be dealt with?
Having worked as a facilitator with nothing much else than OST in the last
15 years, I happily will offer it in situations where conditions appear
suitable first of all to the sponsor/client for expanding the space for
selforganisation to do its thing.
At the beginning of an OST event, the sponsor opens the event (opens the
space is also what I usually say, mostly to make clear that it is not me
doing that... it might be less sloppy and just simpler and more congruent
with my understanding of space always being open for me to say "opens the
event").
Then, I introduce OST with the idea to expand the space just a bit so that
selforganisation can do more of its thing. At that moment it seems to me,
everyone in the room is involved in contributing to expanding and holding
the space... and from here on in much more so than me and, it seems, very
little aware of it, apparently finding it the "normal" or "natural" thing to
do, no need to really talk about it. This puzzled me early in my OST work,
thinking the participants need to appreciate more what they were achieving.
All attempts (evaluation, medicine wheel, etc.)did not seem to add anything
to the event and I had the feeling we were taking up the time of
participants with something that mainly interested me.
How does this relate to outcome?
In my practice, the Planning Group (usually 6 to 12 weeks before the
event) always produces a mind map visualizing what the world looks like to
them the day after the event, what has changed, what is different, how they
feel, which perspectives have been opened, what happens at their place of
work, in their community, etc., their aspirations, vision of the future.
Looking at the mind map after the event and going through it together,
typically not only showed that just about everything happened the way they
had envisioned it AND a lot more (be prepared to be surprised).
This exercise also did not seem to catapult them into paradise... now I
suggest that they just post the mind map along other stuff from the event
itself in the Next Meetings where they continue to work on their projects
after the OST event.
So, my picture of everyone at the gathering is not a system that needs
resonant energy broadcasted to them from me or the facilitation team but a
gathering of people that are enjoying, living, working and doing other fun
and productive things in a space just a little bit more expanded than usual
in which selforganisation is at work just a little bit more than usual.
What I can report in my deminishing work with OST is that the two clients I
have this year (NACOA Germany with its third strategic conference early in
2012 and an it-outfit in a couple of months rethinking some basic "givens"
in their non-stop business) are broadcasting wonderful energies in my
direction... I wonder what will happen without such stuff!
Wishing you more quiet time to connect...and if you are in Berlin, I will
convene a Stammtisch...
Hugs
mmp
PS: Rereading my comments I wonder what makes me work so hared, trying to
understand everything so hard... my suspicion is that my old friend
"control" is alive and kicking. And I also see that there are a whole bunch
of assumptions on stuff such as "space" and "selforganization" and
"expanding" and "selforganization doing its thing" and many more that are
probably very important: Are they really touched by our half-way technology?
On 03.08.2011 02:40, Birgitt Williams wrote:
> Warm greetings!
>
> I have been absent from this list for some time and am delighted to be
> connected now, at least for a while, taking advantage of some quiet
> time over the summer to connect with people and ideas.
>
> A topic that I wish to address is about the outcomes of an OST meeting
> in relation to the energy field of the facilitator. From my
> perspective and experience, there is a direct relationship. I often
> ask OST facilitators what they mean when they say that they ‘open
> space’ and ‘hold space’. My perspective on the facilitator ‘opening
> space’ is that this is just not so. The facilitator does not ‘open the
> space’. The sponsor ‘opens space’ in his or her organization so that
> the facilitator can conduct the form of the Open Space Technology
> meeting. Viewed from that lens, I make choices when I prepare with the
> sponsor for the OST meeting, and what I ask of the sponsor and his/her
> participation during the meeting itself. For example, the sponsor
> teams I work with are coached about working with their personal energy
> to support the highly engaging participatory process. I ask them to
> sit equidistant from each other in the circle and ‘hold the space’
> open for the best possible outcomes and the greatest participation. At
> the end of every day of the meeting, we meet simply to discuss what it
> felt like to them to have opened the space and held the space. The
reflections are amazing.
>
> My role as the lead facilitator and the role of my co-facilitators is
> one of working with the space being held, of going through the form of
> OST, and more importantly to be in touch with ourselves as resonant
> energy field generators. Every one of us works at being in genuine
> contact with ourselves, with our personal energy field, and within
> that genuine contact experiences love and peace and joy. Our job as
> resonant energy field generators is to broadcast this frequency from
> ourselves to give the greatest opportunity for everyone within the
> gathering to reach their greatest potential in the moment of the
> meeting. ‘Holding the space’ from my perspective is this very
> connection and interpretation of self as generating a resonant energy
field. Doing little, being much.
>
> When a meeting goes well, there are many factors, including how well
> we created an energy field as facilitators and how well we did this
> together with our sponsors. We recognize that in both our observer
> role and in our role as energy field generators, we influence the
> meeting and the outcomes of the meeting.
>
> Blessings to all,
>
> Birgitt
>
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