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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'>Well done Andrew! And now you understand
that you have been working much too hard. But of course with a bunch of
facilitators who earn their living, to say nothing of their sense of self worth,
by “working hard,” this could be a problem. Just imagine the
creative confusion that might evolve if everybody understood that the best
thing to do (as a facilitator) is nothing – or as little as possible.
Ideas to conjure with </span></font><font color=red face=Wingdings><span
style='font-family:Wingdings;color:red'>J</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Harrison Owen</span></font></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>7808 River Falls Drive</span></font></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Potomac,
Maryland 20854</span></font></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Phone </span></font><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:red'>301-365-2093</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Skype hhowen</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Open Space Training</span></font><font
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face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>www.openspaceworld.com</span></font></a>
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Open Space Institute</span></font><font
color=red><span style='color:red'> <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/"><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>www.openspaceworld.org</span></font></a></span></font></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Personal website</span></font><font
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face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>www.ho-image.com</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Andrew Ballance<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 23, 2007 8:17
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Spontaneous Open Space at
CFAN</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hello
to you all,<br>
<br>
Two weeks ago I found myself holding space in Mojmirovce, Slovakia, for the
second Global Gathering of the Change Facilitation Associates Network (CFAN,
www.change-facilitation.org). This was the first Open Space event I have
facilitated, and it wasn't on the agenda 24hrs before it started. So this was
quite an exciting development. How did it happen?<br>
<br>
CFAN is a global network of change facilitators. As a global network, it is
only possible to hold a gathering like this once a year. The business of these
five days over the Easter weekend was to reconnect with old and new
acquaintances and friends, learn together, and take and plan the next steps of
the network. You would already expect an action-packed schedule. Consider also
that the network has been expanding, evolving, and needs to find new forms, new
leaders & organisers, new legal structures for the coming years.<br>
<br>
People arrived with many burning issues. This was evident from very early on,
but we struggled with finding ways to deal with the questions, concerns and
suggestions that we all had. The schedule had been put together with the
experience of the last year's gathering in mind, to try and ensure a more
structured and thus productive time together. An initial three days of training
followed by two days of network business. But this left much important thinking
and work unvoiced and undone during the first days. And so the tension mounted.<br>
<br>
On the afternoon before the network business was to take over, things were
reaching some kind of a breaking point. After some critical reflection in one
of the training sessions, someone asked why we couldn't <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>just be, be free to be whatever we are</span></i>.
This echoed the feelings of the facilitators (of which I was one) for the next
days, that somehow we needed to get things going. For my partner, this meant a
facilitated session to reach a decision on something key to all of us. For
myself.. I kept on seeing Open Space. Open Space was suggested to the whole
group as the way to go forward for the next 2 days, but the appetite was not
there for that complete freedom. Later on that evening, it was nonetheless
decided to use it. A compromise of sorts was reached, where we took half a day
of structured analysis, followed by an unstructured format (i.e. Open Space),
that would allow whatever needed to unfold.<br>
<br>
A beautiful thing about the transition was that it allowed the system to become
whole, or maybe as whole as it could get without external facilitation.
Everyone for the last day and a half was invited inside the space. Great things
happened. Much needed discussion, that led to new organisational models for
taking the network forward, new projects, new sense of identity. Most
importantly, the system self-organised to a remarkable degree, throwing out of
the window the schedule for action-planning, as well as the closing circle (it
had already happened in another sub-process) - this was the most important
'therapeutic outcome' of the event, to the eyes of this observer. The system
needed to prove to itself that it could self-organise. It did. I think everyone
went home feeling that the best that could have happened, did. But it was a
surprise! :)<br>
<br>
You can also read about this event on the Change Management Blog, edited by
Holger Nauheimer, the founder of CFAN.<br>
<a
href="http://www.change-management-blog.com/2007/04/cfan-global-gathering-has-started.html"
target="_blank">http://www.change-management-blog.com/2007/04/cfan-global-gathering-has-started.html</a>
(first of 6 posts by various people whilst the event was taking place)<br>
<a
href="http://www.change-management-blog.com/2007/04/open-space-crystallising.html"
target="_blank">http://www.change-management-blog.com/2007/04/open-space-crystallising.html</a>
(first of 2 posts from myself as facilitator, written some time after)<br>
<br>
Warm greetings from an overcast London,<br>
Andrew</span></font></p>
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