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Yowza! OSLIST sure is alive and in good Spirits for the new millenium! Thanks for the many fine responses to my query.<BR>
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I see the wisdom in facilitating a straight OST for this Playback company. I especially appreciate Rainer Bosselmann's words:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF">now it seems to me, that rather straight experiences in a contrasting method or with a 'neighbour approach' are the most fruitful and positively confronting processes of learning.<BR>
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</FONT>I reflect that the groups we serve <I>always </I>have special gifts and expertise in human interaction, sometimes in realms known to the facilitator and sometimes not. I like Christine Whitney Sanchez's phrase "the OST container" - the OST form, when not messed-with, has a way of providing space for all of it. Perhaps someone at the Playback OST will convene a group to PLAYBACK OUR ORGANIZATIONAL STORY, and, as always, whoever comes are the right people.<BR>
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To nudge the discussion a bit further:<BR>
An interesting quote from the Playback discussion last summer: Romy wrote,<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><TT>It is my personal passion to include more 'right stuff' as I call it (ie. right<BR>
brain working) in all that I do...... including theatre, music, arts, dance, clowning,<BR>
storytelling, masks etc etc<BR>
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I harken back to my years of elementary school teaching, when I learned that the <I>materials</I> I provided in opening my classroom space had a critical effect on the experience that emerged.<BR>
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At Birgitt's "OS Organization" training in Raleigh in November, two participants, Kathy and Robert of Kalamazoo, arrived with a plethora of chalk pencils and water-color-crayons, which made their way into all of our sessions in some stunning ways. So what about that? I take to heart Harrison's advice not to <I>plan </I>anything, and to do one thing less. But, if I as facilitator park an art cart in the corner of the main room, buffet-style like the food, would it enhance Spirit or increase clutter? Or would it be helpful in discussions with the sponsor to invite the inclusion of material supports (artistic, dramatic, musical...) that fit the creative culture of a particular group?<BR>
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