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At 08:37 PM 6/23/2002 -0400, Doug. Germann wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Harrison, you do seem to use a
transfer in process--for you it is silence<br>
and time to look at the people around the circle. That seems true, at
least<br>
if what I suspect is going on in a transfer-in, *is* what is going on:
you<br>
are breaking the preoccupations people bring to the meeting and
getting<br>
their minds and spirits in the same place as their bodies.<br><br>
The difference is that the stories bring people there for others to
see,<br>
and the silence brings them there in a potentially deeper, less
visible,<br>
way.</blockquote><br>
Sure --- and I suppose you could think of the whole Open Space as a
"Transfer-In Process" But my real point is to minimize the
number of things I add or do which have the tendency to keep the people
from the central of getting on with their business. Over the years I have
practiced a single design principle when working with Open Space:
<i>Think of one more thing NOT to do. </i>My effort was to keep stripping
away all the things that could be done, or might be nice to do -- in
order to leave the bare essentials, whatever they were. At the beginning,
it just seemed like a good thing (not) to do. But from my present
perspective, in which Open Space is really all about the power of
self-organization, one of things we have learned is that
self-organization slows or stops when you add a bunch of stuff. Less
stuff, more power. I am sure there are a few more things I could
throw out, but I guess I feel pretty comfortable with the little that I
do. Added to that, I have yet to see any "add on" (beyond Walk
the circle, announce the theme, explain the mechanics/principles, and go
to work) that added anything substantive to the total
experience.<br><br>
Harrison <br><br>
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