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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'>Actually with larger (500+) and longer Open
Spaces (2+ days), I like to work with a partner, preferably a woman (me being a
man). This balances the energies, shares the “holding of space,”
and gives me somebody to talk to when I am busy doing nothing. However, I think
it is very important to keep in mind that the focus is on the participants and
not on the facilitators – which means that “face time” cannot
be an issue. Whether you have one facilitator or two, the job is the same –
open the space so the people can go to work and get out of the way. At a
practical level, I find that more than one person doing the opening can be
confusing – differences in tone, style, language patterns can slow things
down un-necessarily and move the attention to the facilitators. However, when
multiple languages are involved – two people and two languages in the
opening can work. </span></font><font color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>Michael Pannwitz</span></font><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'> and I did this
in Wuerzburg with our infamous 2008 participants. But it was not a case of
Michael “translating” for me. I made it very clear at the start
that Michael was going to do his thing, I would do mine, and hopefully we would
arrive at the same place. It seems that we did.</span></font></p>
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actual need – one facilitator will do, and there are situations where
none is just fine.</span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Andrew Rixon<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>May 03, 2005</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>2:57 AM</span></font><font
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Multiple Facilitator
Roles in Open Space</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dear All,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In traditional forms of
group processes there is ‘room’ for co-facilitation, ie, where more
than one facilitator can work together with the group.</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>It appears (based on my
limited learnings in Open space) that there is ‘room’ for only ONE
Open Space facilitator within a group?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I would be interested to
hear your views regarding this…</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Kind regards,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Andrew</span></font></p>
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