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<DIV>Good for you Kathryn! No one who opens space comes out unchanged. To
facilitate any community's transformation is to facilitate our own. What
actually opens space is our heart, so it needs to be just that spacious.
Anything "more" simply limits it, and its capacity to allow
transformation.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jack</DIV>
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<DIV>two.one.six/three.seven.three/seven.four.seven.five</DIV>
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href="http://www.appreciativeleadership.org">www.appreciativeleadership.org</A>
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<DIV>------------Original Message------------</DIV>
<DIV>From: Proteus Communications <proteus@shawbiz.ca></DIV>
<DIV>To: OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</DIV>
<DIV>Date: Mon, May-9-2005 4:56 PM</DIV>
<DIV>Subject: Re: multiple facilitator roles</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=115334219-09052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#800000>Hello Wendy and to everyone on the Open Space list. My
name is Kathryn Thomson, and I too had a "conversion" experience with Chris
Corrigan while supporting him at an Open Space event in January. I have been
offering training and facilitation to organizations for years and years, and
Open Space is what I've been waiting for all my life. I am in danger of
becoming altogether evangelical about its transformational potential. I
believe with all my heart that this experience of OST is what is needed at
this time, on this planet, with all its dear inhabitants.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=115334219-09052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#800000></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=115334219-09052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#800000>One thing about using OST is how deeply it exposes me to
myself. My need to "facilitate" to "do" something, to "be helpful"--all
very fine qualities in some circumstances, but so absolutely wrong in open
space. Chris had me go to the wall and just observe my own responses to
what unfolded there. It was so hard not to offer assistance, and
I saw how much of my own ego is invested in the idea of me being a
"helpful" person. I also saw how important it was to let go of my
attachment to this ego-idea.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=115334219-09052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#800000></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=115334219-09052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#800000>Since then I have introduced OST in various organizations
and witnessed the "chaordic" magic of OST unfold before my
eyes. Once I described the process to a colleague who had never seen it,
but so clearly needed to use it. I tried describing it, and
ended up using my young daughters stuffed animals and kind of acted it
out, so she could get the idea of what it looked like. She used OST the
next day--her client group had been struggling for over a year with some
difficult decisions and changes that needed to be made--and they experienced
major breakthroughs in all areas. My colleague and her client are now
converts too. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=115334219-09052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#800000></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=115334219-09052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#800000>I am hoping to bring OST to the Island that I (and Chris) live
on. There are some urgent issues facing our residents and OST will be our way
through. I think the time, the people and the need is ripe. (How
about it Chris?)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#800000></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=115334219-09052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#800000>I thank each of you on this list for your generosity in sharing
yourselves and your OST experience so openly and helpfully. I am
learning so much from each of you. I really appreciated the
conversations you had about sexism and that poem. I saw right down into
the core of what it means to honour each other in all of our humanity, in all
of our brilliance, our blind spots, our judgements, our deepest beliefs and
deepest hopes. I saw you struggle with what it means to hold very
different world views and to hold on to your respect for each other as human
beings. It was a delicious, enlivening, and heartening dialogue and I
thank you for it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=115334219-09052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#800000></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=115334219-09052005><FONT face=Arial
color=#800000>Thank you too, to Harrison Owen for bringing OST to this planet,
to all of us, at this time, in this place of such great
need.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#800000></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=115334219-09052005></SPAN><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#800000>Sincerely,</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#800000></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+0><FONT size=+0><FONT face=Arial color=#800000><SPAN
class=115334219-09052005>Kathryn Thomson on Bowen
Island</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+0><FONT size=+0><FONT face=Arial color=#800000><SPAN
class=115334219-09052005>(a hitherto invisible, appreciative and
grateful "lurker")</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=115334219-09052005>PS--Is there anyone practicing OST in New
York that would be willing to meet me (for a wee cup of tea and a chat about
OST) sometime the second week in June??</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Wendy
Farmer-O'Neil<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:57 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: multiple facilitator
roles<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Having just come from playing a support role in
an OST event, the question of co-facilitation was also in my mind. I
took on the support role with the intention of service. Service to the
facilitator (Chris), to support him in holding space, and service to the
participants to support them in their journey in Open Space. With
that experience behind me, as I contemplate facilitating my first OST event
(which is on the horizon), I find that I am wanting to create a support team
who understand Open Space and who will help to maintain the continuum or field
of experience for the participants. I understand that it is not
necessary for successful OST facilitation, but I am wondering if it is worth
experimenting to see if there is a qualitative difference for the participants
and/or the facilitator--a deepening, I suppose. I guess I am seeing a
tandem approach to facilitation, where one facilitator takes on the "face
time" as Harrison put it, while the other provides support--at the wall, at
the computer stations--wherever presence can arise to open more space.
Thoughts?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Wendy</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Wendy Farmer-O'Neil<BR>Prospera Communications
& Consulting Services<BR>1.250.713.2351/1.800.713.2351<BR>weblog: <A
href="http://www.wordgravity.blogspot.com">www.wordgravity.blogspot.com</A><BR></DIV></FONT>*
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