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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"
FAMILY=SANSSERIF><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'>Great conversation, <span class=GramE>everybody !</span> (<span
class=GramE>and</span> I love all the hugging – those of you who know me
are probably not surprised about THAT)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>So it seems to
me there are several things we are talking about here.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>One is if you
are the facilitator – the person holding space for the group to do its
work.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>The other is if
you are a participant.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>If you are the
facilitator, trust the process; trust the people. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>It’s not,
in my experience, useful (or some might say respectful) to recommend how folks
might convene their groups, or what processes they might use.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It’s more appropriate to give the
great juicy focusing question, let people know the guidelines (the 4 principles
and the 1 law) and then just step back.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span><span class=GramE>To not recommend things in advance, to not recommend
or post a topic.</span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>To indeed,
*<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>believe in</span></b>* the ability of each
individual to take very good care of themselves – Open Space facilitation
is to me a practice of that belief (and the guidelines remind one how to take
care of ones self).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>And a note –
you are not allowing folks to do anything (allowing them to use a
process-within-a-process during the discussion sessions for example) –
you are getting out of their way to do whatever it is that they identify and
decide upon.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>And that could indeed
include someone wanting to use a process for a conversation – as I did
myself when I was a participant at the international Open Space on Open Space
in Halifax this August – I convened a group to puzzle about something,
and as the <span class=SpellE>convenor</span> I told the group I’d like
to explore the issue using the Inquiry Circle process. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span class=GramE>Simple as that.</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>But that’s
the *<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>participant</span></b>* talking /
choosing / deciding – the facilitator is not influencing this.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Tree, you had a
comment about people doing speeches and making presentations – what I had
been talking to Jimmy about offline is his preparation for a conference, and
his wondering about combining any of the traditional conference-y things
(workshops, keynotes, panels) with the OS.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>And I’d recommended – if doing any non-OS things – to do
them on Day 1 (for example) and the OS on Day 2 (and yes, as Wendy and others
say, it usually results in conference participants reflecting in Closing Circle
that they’d wished the entire conference had been convened in Open
Space).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>As for anything else
participants want to do during an Open Space, I say hurrah.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It’s just when some
presenter-types approach the conference organizer with (or the organizer or
co-hosts hear someone is interested in doing) a didactic (expert-to-audience)
presentation (<span class=SpellE>powerpoint</span>, speech, whatever) that it’s
a great thing (when talking with that person before the conference) to inform
them that this is a little different than another kind of conference –
that people may be coming in and out of their presentation as they sample the
marketplace of ideas, that you do (or do not) have technical capability or a
room to show their <span class=SpellE>powerpoint</span>, whatever. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>To me, it’s just a thoughtful part
of invitation – letting folks who need to know about what tools are
available and that it’s all rather a <span class=SpellE>flowy</span> day
of folks sampling allsorts of juicy conversations and teaching and learning
together in this way throughout the day.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Trust the
process trust the people, say I,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Lisa<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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color:blue;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;mso-no-proof:yes'>L i s
a<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>H e f t<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue;mso-no-proof:
yes'>Consultant, Facilitator, Educator<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue;mso-no-proof:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
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yes'>2325 Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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yes'>Berkeley, California<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black;mso-no-proof:
yes'>94705-1106<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>USA<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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