[OSList] Circle of One (was OSList Digest, Vol 19, Issue 5)

[Gijs Mega]

In san francisco wosonos I joined a session of my friend Brendan from Perth with a similar topic. The exact name I forgot. Opening space for all the voices in the head: most of us have worries, guilt, ego, but also roles we have such as parent, income earner, friend....
It was the facilitator's role to give space to all voices and to park space invaders.
After the meditative session, he would write down the notes as good as possible and those he would discuss with some sort of personal coach on a regular basis. As I recall sessions were on average around an hour, maybe two.

It was very interesting to hear and I would love to hear it again or more.

Best wishes
Gijs 


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On Sep 12, 2012, at 7:09 AM, Harold Shinsato <harold at shinsato.com> wrote:

> Matilda Leyser held a delightful session "A Circle of One - Opening Space On Your Own" at 1:30 pm Thursday May 13 in Berlin at the 2010 World Open Space on Open Space. It was an innovative and very useful session, where Matilda demonstrated how she uses Open Space Technology on her own to help her resolve issues and especially creative scenarios for play writing using different spaces in a room or a few rooms using stuffed animals to represent different aspects of her own psyche or persona. I wish I had written up notes for the event, or someone had, but there's no evidence of the session other than my photo of the schedule wall (which is how I know when it happened!).
> 
> What I remember, and I hope she or someone else corrects me if my memory is faulty, is that she would begin with the regular opening with a circle of herself and the stuffed animals or other objects, then write out the different topic sessions - and then have different representatives move to the different spaces and she would move around between them using the law of two feet, and move the representatives as well. She used it in shorter sessions, a couple hours, and also all day long. Though I think mostly half a day sessions.
> 
> Anyone else remember this session and any other highlights of the ideas that were covered? Anyone else know of any other experiments like Matilda's?
> 
>     Cheers!
>     Harold
> 
> On 9/11/12 10:08 AM, Elisabeth Teppper wrote:
>> I believe the hardest of Spaces to Open are with ourselves!  So a One person OS is also valid!! 
>> Love 
>> Elisabeth
>> Venezuela 
>> Elisabeth Tepper Kofod  -  Facilitadora de Procesos de Transformación
> 
> 
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