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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=790514221-26062002>Thanks
for an interesting conversation of transfer in processes.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=790514221-26062002>I use
a transfer in exercise starting most meetings that are not Open Space meetings.
I use a format I learnt from Birgitt Williams - Whole Person Process
Facilitation. One thing that strikes many participants is how fast
they </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=790514221-26062002><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>get into the
actual core of the meeting. In my experience people also "open up" and
speak from their heart this way.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=790514221-26062002>For me
this has worked wonderfully in my pre-meetings and I now also use this process
in follow up meetings after an Open Space meeting. One detail I could share at
the same time is that I use a digital camera to take pictures from the flip
charts the participants and I use in these meetings. That makes it a lot easier
for me/my sponsor and everybody gets the documentation at their computor the
very same day. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=790514221-26062002>Greetings </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=790514221-26062002>Thomas
Herrmann, Kungsbacka, Sweden</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
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[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>För </B>Harrison
Owen<BR><B>Skickat:</B> den 24 juni 2002 14:06<BR><B>Till:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Ämne:</B> Re: Transfer in
Process<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"></FONT>At
08:37 PM 6/23/2002 -0400, Doug. Germann wrote:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite type="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>Harrison Owen<BR><X-SIGSEP>
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