I posted some stuff on my weblog back in March and added to your notes,
Michael and since then it's been a process of noticing practices in
both facilitators, myself and participants. I've enjoyed Doug's
stuff on this! It could definitely be another research
project - with a juicy appreciative protocol - to study these
practices, how they arise and what happens when we cultivate them in
ourselves over the longer term. As it is, in the one facilitation
training I did structure around these practices, we spent most of our
time noticing where practices of opening, inviting, holding and
grounding show up in people's lives and then went to building on those
to establish the ground from which a solid practice of OST facilitation
emerges. <br>
<br>
My basic assumptions around training has always been that anyone with a
good head and a good heart can facilitate OST, and that in order for
the process to be more than a tool, it has to become grounded and
integrated with the way the facilitator sees the world. I think
that's true of any facilitation method, by the way. So this
training is about finding those practices in daily life and assembling
them into a way of thinking about working with groups and individuals
and self to be able to facilitate OST really well. <br>
<br>
Noticing participant practices has value to me because as a facilitator
it helps me hold space in a way that acts as a container for those
practices to come forward. It also gives me some ideas about
organizational and community dynamics as well and becomes the basis for
great coaching conversations with leaders and sponsors.<br>
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Chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/24/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Herman</b> <<a href="mailto:mjherman@gmail.com">mjherman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
oh, yes, those... and here is some of what we've written down about<br>these practices...<br><a href="http://www.globalchicago.net/wiki/wiki.cgi?OpenSpacePractices">http://www.globalchicago.net/wiki/wiki.cgi?OpenSpacePractices
</a> ...if<br>anybody's interested.<br><br>did you write anything else at your site, chris, or just scribble your<br>additions to the page i posted (above)?<br><br>michaelh<br><br><br><br>On 5/24/05, Chris Corrigan <<a href="mailto:chris.corrigan@gmail.com">
chris.corrigan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I have been musing lately on some open space practices. Michael Herman and<br>> I have worked our list of the four OST facilitation practices we share in<br>> "trainings": opening, inviting, holding and grounding.
<br>><br>> Thinking about the kinds of practices of participants now, largely spurred<br>> by Doug's recent Tao of the depth of open space, one of them seems to be<br>> that the juicy meetings hinge on the quality of attention, honesty and
<br>> authenticity of participants. As if passion and responsibility are merged<br>> and held by invitation to be both open and grounded. I have to ask more of<br>> the participants in meetings if this is right, but my sense is that it is
<br>> that overall integrity that propels us forward into newly opened spaces.<br>> When people feel like they've been in a good OST, it is that this depth has<br>> been plumbed. I put this down to the Law of Mobility: the juice flows when
<br>> the Law is there, but not used, as if we are bound together by an attractive<br>> force rather than repelled into groups. Something about how the energy of<br>> an atom works...why things don't fall apart. The stronger forces of close
<br>> attraction against the longer range forces of gravity.<br>><br>> Anyway - it seems abstract, but I'm sure it has some practical<br>> applications.<br>><br>> Chris<br>><br>><br>> --<br>>
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