<div class="MsoNormal">Hi Sheila,<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>Here is my 2 cents on <i>stay around or not stay around</i>. My experience of OS is that it is very much the same as any creating experience, order from chaos. As a facilitator, I stay around untill I feel the level of anxiety is not high enough to prevent the group from self-organizing. This is sometime when the group is up and grouping around the marketplace and someone turns to me and asks how to do it. This is time for me to tell them that they have everything they need and leave the premisses. Then they can use the creative tension we have built when the facilitator walked the circle and participants stated their subjects of interest, to create their agenda.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>Another example why I tend to not stick around too much, let’s say that I bumblebee and butterfly a lot. At some point, while <i>bumblebeeing</i>, I was
sitting in the room with a group. When I felt tension mounting, I walked out and sat where anyone who would need to, could come and talk. After a few minutes, someone used the law of two feet and came to me, quite angry, at me first because I wasn’t there to control (save ?) them. I told her that if I was in the room controlling them, I couldn’t be here to hear her. She agreed. It happened that the tension was around some covert conflicting attitude preventing the group from accomplishing what they really want to do, and how to. The OS gave enough room for the conflict to invite itself in plain sight for everyone to see. This event gave the opportunity to the group to self-manage the conflit over time. I wonder if they could have, if I had been in the room, instead of being available to listen to someone who became the champion to confront the conflict and have the group the possibility to resolve it.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>But again, I
believe it is personnal to each facilitator. There is a fine line that you can feel, if your are present and invisible, between too much anxiety and rediness for the group to self-organize. Reckognizing this fine line tells you when to go. If you feel you need to control or find it hard to be in the room, sitting at the edge of your chair or pacing nervously around, and fighting pitching in, then it may be better that you butterfly or bumblebee, for you and for the self-organization of the group. </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>OS is a natural process, there is always someone to lead the way to the marketplace if the group need to.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Hope my 2 cents provide you some help.<o:p></o:p></div> <br><br><b><i>Sheila Beauchemin <s.beauchemin@SHAW.CA></i></b> a écrit :<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hi there,
<br>I am an open space neophite so my questions must be taken with that in <br>mind. I confess that I am having trouble understanding the consistency <br>between "leaving the room" only to return at the end of the session for <br>evening news, and the necessity to "hold time and space". Here, it <br>appeared that the facilitator was to remain around but not visible - doing <br>all those small tasks that keep the space safe and comfortable for those <br>busy beavers working away in the breakout sessions?<br><br>Can you provide some further enlightenment - and encourage as I find the <br>notion of leaving a hard one! Call it the value for money proposition <br>that I occassional face (albiet not in an OST environment) - e.g. "Sure am <br>paying a lot of money and what are she really doing? She isn't even in <br>the room!"<br><br>I have more basic questions but will post these separately along with an <br>introduction!<br><br>Regards, <br>Sheila Beauchemin<br>Victoria, BC
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