[OSList] energy field of the facilitator and its influence on OST outcomes

[Birgitt Williams]

Dear Reinhard,

I hope you are well recovered, and now basking in good health.

 

I jumping into this session now, you prove that wonderful principle ‘when
it’s not over, it’s not over’. As you know, I love your work and whenever I
have been in a session in which you provide the visual facilitation, it adds
a dimension during the OST meeting AND a dimension after the OST meeting
that I miss very much when we do not have you. For me, this is an example of
bringing in a dimension to facilitation that invites the expansion of
consciousness. 

 

I am intrigued by the statistics you present. I think that these same
statistics apply inside an organization on a daily basis when the
organization is getting its business done. People do not have access to the
whole picture, even when the space is considered ‘open’. This leads me to
wondering what the implications are and to wondering what my beliefs about
upgrading the facilitator of OST meetings could include beyond what I have
thought about before.

 

What a day of wonderful wondering. It is raining gently here, with warm
rain, a nice relief from intense heat. I had the glorious opportunity to go
for a swim in the rain, all by myself with nature, and followed this with a
hike in the forests
again immersing myself in nature with no distractions. I
was wondering about a quote I read this morning from a friend Jaden Rose
Phoenix “I am a fractal. Fractals can organize in ways that support each
other”. I wondered about being a fractal of a whole. I wondered about the
whole affecting the fractal. And I wondered about the fractal self
organizing in ways that support each other, within the influence of the
whole. Great fun.

 

Blessings,

Birgitt

 

 

 

From: VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE [mailto:mail at visuelle-protokolle.de] 
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 1:40 PM
To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
Subject: Re: [OSList] energy field of the facilitator and its influence on
OST outcomes

 

Dear OS-friends,

 

I have been in hospital for some days, so my response comes a little late.
But some of you won't like it earlier or later, and for me it stays valid
also after time.

 

 

Since Birgitt showed up and opened the dialogue with Harrison, I wanted to
jump into the ring as well.

 

I fully support Birgitts approach to lift the level of consciousness of
facilitators. I like also Harrisons love for  self organization and share
it. BUT I ask: self organization of what? Of the OS meeting? I think that's
by far not enough. My credo: an egoless organization could, would create
heavon on earth.

 

Once I was visualizing a big OS. The theme: Rising the quality of the Inner
City of X. The OS facilitator, a famous colleague, told me: I don't care a
bit if they get a better Inner City, I care that they have a good OS!   

 

Here I strongly disagree. If people want to use self organization to
meliorate their City, I want to support them in any way. I don't care if
they use OS or other effective ways (we offer some), but if they use it,
they should get the best out of it. And over the years grew my following
thoughts:

 

ASPECT 1  

An average participant chooses his groups at the marketplace. If he chooses
one out of 15 possible groups per time slot, he participates in 6-7% of the
groups. His information at the end about process and results covers 6-7%. If
he is a bumble bee, and if he watches the written results of other groups
carefully, and if he even reads written reports, his information level could
rise to 10, 15, even 20%. He will never see the full picture, although he
feels the energy of 100%.

 

Nobody so far mentioned this fact as far as I know, in all the discussions
and OSONOS'es.

 

Here Visualization can help. The visualizers go from group to group, like
bumble bees, noticing, noticing, noticing, transforming process, results and
atmosphere into images. We are doing it on little cards, which you can take
into every corner, participate in discussions silently, go wherever we feel
the energy rising, as Max Schupbach calls that. With our pictures we then
form a continuous picture wall, where everybody can follow the process. And
in the evening News we project the images to the whole group. Scientific
research shows, that hereby the awareness of process and results jumps from
20% to 60%.

 

ASPECT 2

 

If the OS has consequences, the images are a strong tool. To remember what
happened. To show it to others, who did not participate, for example board
members. To use them as starting platform for new work groups. To compare
later results with the original intention. And always: to remember.

 

If you only want to create a beautiful OS, Visualization certainly is one
thing less to do.

 

If you want to support self organization, in a company, an organization 
 ,
using OS as a tool, to sharpen this tool by Visualization is great. After
hundreds of projects I know what I am talking about.

 

Some will say: There is nothing to improve in OST! OK, but maybe there is
something to improve in the use of OST  for self organization.

 

Reinhard

 

 

 

 

Reinhard Kuchenmüller
Dr. Marianne Stifel 
VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE®

tel +39-0566-88 929
www.visuelle-protokolle.de

 

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