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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
 style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Harrison</span></font></st1:place><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> and florian’s experience matches mine too. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>In First Nations organizations and
communities, space is held by Elders during meetings, and in most cases the
meetings themselves are wrapped in prayer, so that we open and close with an
acknowledgement of our spiritual connection to each other, our work and the
place in which we are meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>But Reinhard, I have also experienced this
situation of holding space from another angle, as the facilitator for an Open
Space meeting to which no one came. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It
was in a small and very troubled First Nations community, racked with violence
and drug abuse, and no one, not even my sponsor showed up for a community
meeting at which 70 people were expected.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I found myself in a strange situation, and
instead of packing up, I stayed and consciously held space for the
community.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>I figured that I was there
for a reason, and they knew about Open Space and the role of the facilitator,
so I played that role, sitting in the longhouse alone, in a half-meditative state,
holding open the possibility for healing in the community and reflecting on
what it means to hold space. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I had a
copy of the Tao Te Ching with me, which made excellent reading.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>At any rate, my work of modeling the
process seemed to pay off in that several folks arrived for lunch (which
magically appeared out of the kitchen) and we continued on in the community
running a small OST meeting the following day for the youth and some Elders.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I like your image of sensing the honey…that
is the essence of a lot of good facilitation practice.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Chris<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>-----Original
Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Harrison Owen<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 11, 2004
7:27 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: visual bumble bees</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<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 was 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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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span
 style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Harrison</span></font></st1:place><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> </span></font><st1:PersonName><font
 size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>OSLIST</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>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> </span></font><st1:PersonName><font
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: visual bumble bees</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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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>

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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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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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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>
begleitung im wandel<br>
d 10779 berlin, muenchener 6<br>
fon 0049.30. 2116752<br>
fax 0049.30. 2115943<br>
ff@begleitung-im-wandel.com<br>
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