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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Cyr" size=2>Thanks to the folks who congratulated me for
my "first time." Yes, Harrison, it indeed is going from bad to worse. And I only
have myself to blame!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Oh well. Here I am with another question:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>When I attended the OS facilitator training with Birgitt, we
were asked to frame for ourselves what we understood the essence of OS to be.
The answer I came up with then immediately (which is no longer adequate for me)
is "profound non-intervention." I don't think here I need to expand on why I
thought that was OST's essence.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>What I realize, though, is that it's not entirely clear to me
at what point that "non-intervention" (I'm not sure I would call it that at this
point; holding space and time might be closer to what the facilitator does; even
that isn't quite exact in my book) begins. Is there consensus on
that?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Another way of framing the question is "at what point can one
consider that the facilitator has "opened" the space? I put this word in quotes
because I realize more and more that there are times when indeed there is no
need for a facilitator to even "open" space. There is no need for a
"facilitator". That self-facilitated open space already exists (and has existed)
for millenia.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>-Does the "opening" end at the explanation of how we will
work? Thus, the facilitator can just leave the room then (before the topics are
announced and put up)?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>-Does the "opening" end when the facilitator sees that all
topics have been put up and then he/she can leave the room?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>A secondary (but maybe not that secondary) question is does
the facilitator have any role in the Marketplace? If someone forgets to put a
post-it on a topic, can the facilitator remind the participant about this? Do
you follow the process of putting up topics?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Or it just varies? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I have come to understand that once I have given the
explanation, that's it. I have no place to interfere in any way. If someone
forgets a post-it, it's not my place to do anything. Or if all the sessions have
been taken with topics and there is a desire to announce more sessions, it is
not my place to create, for example, a third concurrent session. Since this is
OS, I imagine it is up to the group to imagine and come up with the possibility
of a third session.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Raffi</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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