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Thanks for your input Owen. Notes below<br>
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Harrison Owen wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Deborah – I
think your idea of a
“facebook” sent out in advance is a great one. And it would avoid
doing a “round the circle” at the beginning, which I personally
find less than useful for two reasons. First it delays the actual start
when
people go to work – and this is the most important consideration for
me.
Secondly, all those names and needs/wants/desires badly confuses this
old mind.
After the first two or three I just hit “overload.” For our
up coming OSONOS by the Sea I sent out a full participant list and
invited
people to add whatever information/requests they might want. Some
people chose
to remain a mystery (great!) and others wrote a whole bunch. How much
of this
actually gets read I don’t know, but a number of folks said it was
useful
and fun. Since email addresses were also included, the party started
early,
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I agree. This makes it "pull" - those who want to will go and read.
Others don't have it "pushed" on them at the event. Not sure yet how to
use Face book for this, but I'll figure it out when I need it next.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I am a
little less enthusiastic about
special guided tours done by the facilitator – though it is certainly a
nice
idea. I find one of the great things about an Open Space is the speed
with
which new comers are included – some of this just happens on its own,
and
in other cases participants will notice a stranger looking a little
lost and
take them under their wing. I really like that as it serves to build
and bond
the community. If the lost guest is “important” having some
“just plain folk” do the job can be wonderful. And who knows a
useful connection could be made. At most I (as the facilitator) might
suggest
to one of the “older” participants that “so and so”
looks a little lost – maybe you could take them on a tour – sort of
thing. That way I can hold the space and members of the community take
active
responsibility for the inclusion. Win/Win – I think.</span></font></p>
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I believe, actually, that it happened organically, as you suggest. We
had two formal facilitators for the OST... so I was still on the floor
and completely oblivious. I didn't notice it at all, since, as you
note, other lost visitors had been similarly befriended and introduced
to the venue in progress (we had walk-ins off the street, which was
thrilling). When we discussed it later, we did reflect that it would
have been good for a member of the community to have done it... I'd
still call that person a "facilitator", though - just not the one who
opened space :-)<br>
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This has been a useful conversation for me - I look forward to others'
ideas on it too.<br>
deb<br>
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