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At 10:52 PM 7/22/2002 +0100, <font face="arial" size=2>Martin
</font>wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>Judi
writes:</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>>As an OST facilitator, if I truly believe
the expertise is in the room, then it is simple to only give input to
matters of holding space...</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Here's how it is for me: Sometimes the
expertise isn't in the room. Sometimes people don't know what they don't
know. Sometimes, like fish, they can't see the water they are swimming
around in. If I can see something that they can't, or if I have some
knowledge that I honestly think they need, then I may find myself
contributing. I may even make a forceful intervention. It's more about
responding with integrity in the moment than about following rules and
models.</font><font face="arial"></font></blockquote><br>
Your choice of course. But I find it useful to think more about the
learning the group could achieve in the search for the knowledge they
need. Something about teaching people to fish as opposed to providing a
sauteed filet of sole. I suppose if I had the magic bullet they required
I would at least think about offering my pearls of wisdom. But only think
about it. In most cases, I prefer that they figure it out for
themselves. It is something (once done) they will never forget -- neither
the knowledge or the experience. And having done it once, they can do it
again -- which is the whole point for me. I guess I also find that my
pearls of wisdom, which looked brilliant to me, don't quite make it with
the folks. They rather like their own.<br><br>
Harrison<br>
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