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

Harrison Owen hhowen at verizon.net
Sun Aug 14 14:22:10 PDT 2011


Reinhard – I love your passion. And visualizations (images) are great and
powerful. But I might take small issue with some of your premises – that we
had a choice about self-organization. ( “If people want to use self
organization to meliorate their City
”) In my book, there is no choice.
Self-organization is what is – as it has been for some 13.7 billion years.
And despite what some City Planners and others of a similar ilk might say
(or hope) – it is all self organizing. They can make any plan they want to
(“Planned Communities”), but at the end of the day, when Human Community
forms -- if it does, it is self-organizing. Ants do it, birds do it – we all
do it. Could we do “it” better? Of course – but not by refining the process.
That process has worked pretty good for some time. However, we can, I
believe, remember what we already know. Open Space can be (has been)
helpful. A preview of coming attractions! A training ground for future
actions
 “Training wheels” as Chris Corrigan says. But the facilitator’s
role is what it has always been. Get folks started, and get out of the way.
No Bells, No Whistles – No Nothing. Just get out of the way! The Folks will
do it, I find.

 

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Subject: Re: [OSList] energy field of the facilitator and its influence on
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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®

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