[OSList] Another Way of Ending an Open Space Meeting

[Eleder_BuM]

I love it, Brendan!
Thanks for your input. I just put it on the blog (flowandshow). Just a way
to keep track of things that picked my attention.
Best wishes,
Eleder

2012/9/12 Brendan McKeague <mckeaguebrendan at gmail.com>

> Hi folks
>
> I've just revisited the delightful conversation on the use of the Medicine
> Wheel and thought I'd share a way of ending that now sits comfortably
> within me...the Medicine Wheel, as some others have mentioned, never has.
>  I think this may be due in part to me not being from North America. I'm
> also not from Australia where I currently facilitate most of my Open Space
> meetings.
>
> So here is what I usually do at the Closing Circle, after everyone has
> spoken and the Sponsor, being the last one to speak in the group, hands the
> talking stick/mic back to me...
> I rise and slowly walk the circle with some words of description around
> what people came to do and what they actually did during the meeting
> (number of topics, action plans...) and then I invite folks to reflect on
> how the principles showed up for them during the meeting experience -
> usually beginning with a question, followed by a pause, like:
>
> "Did you notice the right people came here here today?" - pausing while I
> walk another few steps, then
>
> "How did whatever happened...appear for you today?"...pause...
>
> "Did you start at the right time?"...pause...
>
> "Did you recognise when it was over - or not over?"...pause..
>
> "Did you use the Law of Mobility at all...or notice others using
> it?"...pause..
>
> "Did you butterfly a bit?"...pause...
>
> "Did you buzz a bit?"...pause...
>
> "Did you need a billabong space for yourself at any time during the
> meeting?"  (billabong being an Australian word referring to a 'watering
> hole/oasis')...pause...
>
> "And finally, were you surprised at all about what happened here today, in
> yourself, observing others, topics raised, anything?"...pause...
>
> In the tradition of the OS Closing Circle, I then invite the group to
> stand, look around the circle and acknowledge what has been given and
> received to/from each other, and the work that has been done here today,
> and when you're ready, take a 180deg turn and step out of the circle...and
> we're done.
>
> That's it...until the next one!
>
> Cheers
> Brendan
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