<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear OS list members,<div><br></div><div>I have been following this list for almost two years now and have enjoyed many of your conversations, learnings, ideas and inspirational thoughts! Many thanks for all that valuable insight and encouragement!</div><div><br></div><div>I myself over the last 2 years have organised/ facilitated approx. 20 OS all over the world (from Switzerland to South Africa, from Indonesia to Ethiopia), some as large as 70 participants (unfortunately I never had the opportunity for a larger group - would love to try that!), some as small as 5 persons - and I (as well as the participants!) enjoy it greatly each time!</div><div><br></div><div>We, the KM4Dev (a global community of practice on Knowledge Management for Development; <a href="http://www.km4dev.org">http://www.km4dev.org</a>) have decided to run this year's annual meeting over 2.5 days entirely as an OS. We are about four persons who have already facilitated OS and are preparing the facilitation of the event.</div><div><br></div><div>However, all of the four of us are also greatly interested in the topics which will be discussed, it's certain that we also want to propose topics for groups to work on. Therefore my question:</div><div><br></div><div>Is it possible, that a facilitator opens the Open Space, but once the market place starts, she/ he will transform into a regular participant and mingle with the rest? I always attached great importance to "holding space" - I have never been doing anything actively, I have done my best to get out of the way, however I have been there, almost invisible, but still...</div><div>Do you have any experience or advice on whether the facilitator can give up her/ his role and become a normal participant until to the closing circle?</div><div>Alternatively, do you have any thoughts about rotating faciliators: person A doing it on the first day, B on the second day, so that we all have the opportunity to participate in the discussions with our own topics? I guess none of us would want to limit her/ himself for the full duration to just holding space...</div><div><br></div><div>Your experience is much appreciated!</div><div>-marc</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span><img height="55" width="173" src="cid:65F22F96-B123-4BC0-915C-A79100B0D074"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">IngeniousPeoplesKnowledge</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2;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