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

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Op Aug 4, 2011 om 8:42 PM heeft "Birgitt Williams" <birgitt at dalarinternational.com> het volgende geschreven:

> Ah John...a good discussion is good for the soul. Thank you for the info on
> self organizing systems. It is a great hypothesis and indeed a useful one as
> is Harrison's response about being the negative, the ground in the energy
> flow, as does his idea of the questioner. I don't disagree with any of that.
> I realize that there is a dominant perspective on this list of OST being
> about self organizing systems. I am opening the space up more than that for
> myself and any of you who are interested in having a discussion so that I
> can wonder about other possible hypothesis as well that might also prove
> useful. 
> 
> In the debate by scientists about evolution versus intelligent design, there
> are so many unanswered questions. I think the topic of self organizing
> systems fits within this bigger debate when viewed from the lens of
> scientists. I think that quantum mechanics has a lot to offer as does the
> evolution of consciousness. There is so much out there that can be brought
> into my wondering and I am in a place and time of contemplation of what we
> know and what we don't know and is it time for an upgrade to the way the
> facilitator of OST meetings views the power of his/her energy field,
> intentional or otherwise, on a group of people. 
> 
> About twenty years ago, I fell in love with Harrison's work on Spirit, with
> Harrison, with OST as did some others of us. I loved that working with OST
> seemed to be anchored about twenty years in the future and that Harrison and
> those of us who were strong advocates of getting OST out into the world were
> ahead of our time. So, twenty years has passed and it seems a good time to
> look again at some things that we maybe took for granted. Along the way,
> Harrison chose to delve deeply and passionately into self organizing
> systems. I veered away from that line of thinking and explored Spirit, the
> remembering organization, wholeness is, and the expansion of consciousness
> and its effects. I have learned some very interesting things in my journey,
> as have those who took different journeys. 
> 
> I want to give an example. I love the work of Dr. Richard Bartlett and his
> Matrix Energetics and the Physics of Miracles. He is exploring dimensions of
> ourselves that can come into play in claiming our wholeness as individuals.
> What happens when we apply what he has learned to our energy fields in
> facilitating OST meetings? Ages ago, I started applying what I know and do
> and be as a Reiki master to OST meetings. What happens when Amanda applies
> to her energy field what she learns through the Heart Math work? Are we more
> likely to assist those in our meetings to alter their energy fields to
> vibrate differently with improved results...long term, not just in the
> meeting? Will their be differences that get experienced such as an easier
> negotiation to co-leadership, to collaboration not just in the meeting but
> beyond? So many questions....
> 
> Warmly,
> Birgitt
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Watkins [mailto:johnw536 at mac.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:01 PM
> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
> Subject: Re: [OSList] energy field of the facilitator and its influence on
> OST outcomes
> 
> Birgitt,
> 
> Self organizing systems have two major capacities that are ubiquitous in the
> universe: 
> 1) pattern emergence, or the unavoidability of new orders emerging out of
> chaos or complexity or turbulence; and, 
> 2) pattern recognition and replication, often referred to as autopoiesis,
> the way that new patterns become new systems and then replicate themselves.
> These, being universal principles, most certainly contain energy fields and
> patterns.
> I think, therefore, that self organizing systems is sufficient to contain
> what you are asking facilitators for, as long as they understand the ways in
> which they are participants in self organizing systems, and trust that
> process.  Harrison's just sent response about being the negative, the
> ground, in the energy flow seems appropriate, as does his idea about the
> role of questioner.
> 
> John
> 
> On Aug 4, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Birgitt Williams wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
>> Birgitt Williams
>> President and Senior Consultant, Dalar International Consultancy
>> Author, The Genuine Contact Way
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>> 
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>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael M Pannwitz [mailto:mmpanne at boscop.org] 
>> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 4:36 AM
>> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
>> Subject: Re: [OSList] energy field of the facilitator and its influence on
>> OST outcomes
>> 
>> 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
>>> 
>>> Birgitt Williams
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