[OSList] Smallest group OS

[Lisa Heft]

I have also seen people post the principles and law on the wall and  
not mention them, or only say the text of the principles and law  
without explaining them. And the group does not really receive the  
understanding of the invitation to move around and take care of  
themselves, value even a group of one, sample in the marketplace, and  
so on.  It doesn't have to be an explanation that goes on for hours,  
though I have come to see that even facilitators who are more  
illustrative in their languaging do not get in the way of the group -  
it's cultural. It works. But in my observation, people don't often  
have the model to get that you do not have to stay in a group for the  
full hour, that you are amazing even if just one person in a group,  
and so on. Unless there's a bit of explanation, even a short bit.

And yes, I've seen people look at what a process looks like from  
looking around the room / having been a participant, and think that  
that's the process. And that's just what the process *looks* like.  
There is more to the knowing and the practice of something than just  
what it looks like to the eye...

Not that you have to be a professional facilitator to do it  
wonderfully. Just that in my observation there is a difference in how  
the process is held and invited - as if you can tell which folks  
facilitating have studied it further (self-study or any other kind of  
study), and which are just doing a circle and a wall of topics. Which  
you can call anything. And it can be fabulous. But I wouldn't call it  
Open Space.

Lisa


On Jun 24, 2013, at 4:17 PM, Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring wrote:

> Harrison: In this case the guy was very exited and happy to do it  
> so  thnk that that part of being sincere was good. It was his first  
> time doing it but it was only for a couple of hours (This topic) was  
> all ready discused here.
>
> But what ahppend is that  in the Agile coach camp in Toronto the  
> person who opened the space was also doing it for the first time and  
> did it the same way, so people see an other person an just copies  
> the same way of doing it ...and I have that feeling that the part of  
> not being  totally present ...
>
> On the other hand I like better to see people opening spaces, the  
> way they can do it, even if something is kind of missing...  than  
> not doing it at all.
>
> The time was also short: 30 minutes for the small groups..but the  
> conversations were good !
> May be the next time they invite me as a facilitator ! This is a joke!
> Any ways it is nice to see that more people are opening spaces in  
> many places!!!
> Adriana

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