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class=550474422-26062002>thank you for describing your successful use of the
Whole Person Process Facilitation including the transfer in process. You
clarified well that we aren't using this at the start of an OST meeting but for
all meetings that require an open but more guided approach including the
planning and debrief meetings for an OST meeting.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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it was to compliment the OST meetings in exactly this way. To grasp what this is
about for us, think of all of creation as a great Open Space. Within that great
Open Space and in a way that works with that Open Space, there are methods that
assist in respectfully working with collectives of people to enable them to open
to the extent that they are ready. Open Space Technology, Whole Person Process
Facilitation, Appreciative Inquiry, the World Cafe are such
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<DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Thomas
Herrmann<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 26, 2002 5:53 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> SV: Transfer in
Process<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
<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
class=790514221-26062002> </SPAN>-----Ursprungligt
meddelande-----<BR><B>Från:</B> OSLIST
[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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