[OSList] Facilitation Survey

[Bhavesh Patel via OSList]

Hi Michael,

I copied this from the IAF website:
https://www.iaf-world.org/site/professional/cpf

*"At the far right, the facilitator controls the process and does not
provide content. The facilitator works with their client and/or group to
define a session purpose and output. Session outputs are usually defined by
a desired outcome (e.g. a strategic plan, a decision, ideas generation) but
the specific content is the responsibility of the group. Facilitators at
this end of the spectrum can facilitate a session where they have no
content knowledge. Their role becomes strictly one of helping the group
manage the information they already possess, or can access, to achieve a
necessary result in a timely and collaborative manner."*

So OST definitely sits outside the mainstream view of facilitation,
although the pre-work with the client fits within it.

Even 'walking together for a stretch' doesn't quite capture it, especially
if you are holding onto your chair as a way of controlling the need to
control!

Holding space, caring for the space, being present and invisible, etc get
closer and also start to sound a bit mystical... the Art of Hosting use the
word hosting...

Maybe it is easier not to consider OST as part of the world of facilitation?


Smiles Bhav...



On 18 March 2017 at 20:14, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Dear Bhav,
>
> smiling back at you.
>
> Looked at the survey. And at the description of "What is facilitation".
> Yes, there are varieties of facilitation, many I guess.
> I did not find anything in the definition of the researchers that comes
> close to what I understand "facilitation" to be in the context of Open
> Space Technology.
> Where it might apply is in the selforganized "facilitation" that takes
> place in breakout sessions or in the Action Planning part of an open space
> where folks are more in a mode of a decision making ... still
> selforganized, of course. All done by the participants all on their own.
>
> The phases in an OST event (welcome, stating the theme, focusing the
> group, describing the process and inviting issues) that most of us call
> "facilitation" is simply an introduction into a process in which we try to
> stay totally present and at the same time attempt to stay invisible.
>
> This is an approach that I have seen only in OST events.
>
> In fact, when the facilitation of the kind that is meant in the survey is
> exercised  in an ost event (I have often seen that) it has the effect of a
> space invasion with the result of reducing the space for selforganisation
> to unfold.
>
> I am also pretty certain that the idea of a neutral facilitation is not
> part of the kind of facilitation that is meant in the survey.
> "Helping groups achieve their jointly agreed outcome" is not a "neutral"
> activity. This  contradiction is unavoidable but needs to be faced by
> facilitators.
>
> So, what would be a more fitting term of what we do under the "label" of
> "facilitation"?
>
> In German language events I use the term "Begleiter"... in the sense
> "walking together for a stretch".
>
> What terms are used for "facilitator" in other languages or what other
> terms are being used in English?
>
> Cheers and greetings from Berlin
> mmp
>
> PS: I imagine that issues like the one above and many others will be dealt
> with at the Germany language OSonOS in May in Germany, take a peek
>
>> http://www.meine-openspace-praxis.de/Dateien/open%20space%20Flyer.pdf
>>
>
>
> Am 17.03.2017 um 16:52 schrieb Bhavesh Patel via OSList:
>
>> Hi Friends,
>>
>>
>>
>> Are you from Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands,
>> Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom?
>>
>>
>>
>> If YES and you have some time before the 31^st March, please fill out
>> this facilitation survey which should hopefully provide us all with some
>> interesting insights: http://www.kalinax.com/facilitationhome.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Smiles Bhav…
>>
>>
>>
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