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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I suspect that you will get as many answers as
there are folks on this list ... but I always feel that my job (overtly) is done
when the group has posted all of its issues and is engaged in market place
negotiations. At that point I know I need some air (or a nap) and the people
will get on just fine. Prior to that, I do keep my eye on the wall -- and if
post-is are not in evidence on a issue paper, I suggest that even though Open
space is wonderful there is still a need for a time/space meeting point. with
very large groups (500+) it is helpful to have some helpers standing by the
wall. They should do as little as possible, but two functions can be helpful: 1)
post-its 2) Suggest that people spread out their postings instead of arranging
them vertically. If the papers are too close and too tall -- the wall gets very
chummy and short people have a very hard time when it comes to signing up.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Harrison</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=raffi@pochtamt.ru href="mailto:raffi@pochtamt.ru">Raffi
Aftandelian</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> Sunday, July 18, 2004 9:34 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> point of non-intervention</DIV>
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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>* *
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