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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Among the Kpelle, the West African Tribe
which largely inspired Open Space for me, the role of Space Holder is typically
played by the Senior Elder. In a tribal council setting, when all the people
are gathered in a circle, he will normally say nothing until the very end. At
that point, he will utter a short saying or parable which encapsulates the
discussion and essentially articulates the common finding (whatever that might
be). More often than not, the saying or parable is very well known, but the art
is to find just the right one that does the job. I think the key point for this
elder, as also the OS facilitator, is to be basically invisible (at least in
terms of overt participation), and yet profoundly present. I also saw more than
a few situations when the Elder said nothing, for it <span class=GramE>was</span>
obvious that nothing more needed to be said. He just nodded his head, and it
was over. My own reaction was that this was by far the most powerful sort of “statement.”
Certainly in the lore of elders as told around the villages, the ones who said
least, or nothing, rose to the head of the pack in the people’s
estimation. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> </span></font><st1:PersonName><font
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Florian Fischer<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 11, 2004
8:52 AM<br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: visual bumble bees</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Am 28.02.2004 7:28 Uhr schrieb "Visuelle
Protokolle" unter <mail@visuelle-protokolle.de>:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>..I want to ask you a
question.<br>
.....When I walk through the groups in an OS, listening here,<u> taking visual
notes</u> there, ...following the energy of honey smell. During the day I
gather lots of images I draw this way, images which I bring together. ... I
show my honey to the group afterwards, many of the others like it to have a <u>visual
overview of the proceedings</u>, .....the unspoken energy that I felt and drew.
So I found out that I create a group memory this way.<br>
......you often talk about 'holding space'. But at <u>African tribes meetings</u>,
at coffee brakes there is nobody holding space, or it is everybody. Self
organized.<br>
Wouldn't some of you like to test a <u>service to the group</u> similar to the
one I am practizing? Holding space in another way?<br>
Just start <u>walking around drawing little images</u>, not as a participant
talking and arguing with the others, but wandering to and fro silently and open
minded? And thus producing something wich no written protocol of the groups can
substitute? As <u>a stepping stone for sustainability</u>, something to come
back to, to show others?<br>
And maybe this way <u>also participants would follow the example and draw a bit</u>,
like in World Cafč meetings using the table cloth for visual notes?<br
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>dear reinhard,<br>
about the question whether there is a space-holder <br>
in the coffe-brake Iīm sure itīs the bar-keeper.<br>
about the question whether there is a spaceholder <br>
in african tribe meetings,I called my friend irene, <br>
she is well experienced in ethnology, lived together <br>
for a lot of while with the tribe of the dinka in sudan.<br>
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yes, she answered, they never meet without someone,<br>
who is called AGAMLONG. <br>
agam is confirming, long is speach/speaking.<br>
in english we my translate that as confirmer or transmitter<br>
he is repeating part by part of the discussion between<br>
different opinions of the participants.<br>
thatīs the way how the the dinka do it <br>
to give space, to give honour, to expand the now, <br>
to appreciate the process, to frame the emergence.<br>
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your way of confirming a discussion by taking little images<br>
may serve in an equivalent manner.<br>
<br>
come to goa, to our next following OSonOS.<br>
show up into the circle, draw your message on a sheet of paper<br>
and offer it on the marketplace<br>
it will be fascinating.<br>
<br>
florian<br>
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florian fischer<br>
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d 10779 berlin, muenchener 6<br>
fon 0049.30. 2116752<br>
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ff@begleitung-im-wandel.com<br>
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