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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Koos -- nothing to add tol what you have said, just
a Hello! Nice to see you here!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Harrison</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PS -- And I really like the "gentle reminder" of
what everybody already knew.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=koos@auryn.nl href="mailto:koos@auryn.nl">Koos de Heer</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, July 19, 2004 12:04
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: point of
non-intervention</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi Raffi,<BR><BR>Here's another belated congratulations... And
an answer to your question. One of many I am sure.<BR><BR>To me, the essence
of Open Space is all about reminding. Reminding people of something they
already know and can do. We all have this basic knowledge and these basic
skills. For some folks, the reminding just takes a little more than for
others. And people sometimes tend to forget bits again along the
way.<BR><BR>This reminding thing can be handled in many different ways. A
reminder like: "Hey you dumbo! Didn't I tell you to...!" obviously is not what
we want in Open Space. And often people need very little to be reminded. I
have people coming up to me asking whether they can do something (like
changing the time of their session, or merging two sessions, things like that)
and all I do is wait a few seconds and do nothing. In most cases, after a few
seconds, they know the answer, tell me what they ar going to do and leave
happily.<BR><BR>Quite often, it takes even less: just my being there,
centered, conscious of my love for this special group of people, trusting them
with whatever it is they need to do, is enough for a reminder. And at the same
time, it is much more than not being present at all.<BR><BR>Sometimes it takes
a little more. But even if I do repeat an instruction or offer some advice, I
always keep in mind that I am not instructing people or telling them what to
do, it is just this gentle reminding process that comes from a place of love
and trust.<BR><BR>Just my 2 cents.<BR><BR>Koos de Heer<BR><BR>At 15:34
18-7-2004, you wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT 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><BR> <BR><FONT size=2>Oh well. Here I am with another
question:</FONT><BR><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><BR> <BR><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><BR> <BR><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><BR> <BR><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><BR> <BR><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><BR> <BR><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><BR> <BR><FONT size=2>Or it just varies?
</FONT><BR> <BR><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><BR> <BR><FONT
size=2>Raffi</FONT><BR>* *
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