<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">...and that's how we are all delightfully different.<div><br></div><div>Jack, I honor how you feel and see things.</div><div>And yet I do see them differently.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">I see abundance instead of competition. <br><br></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">I see inviting others to help me in events that I facilitate as an opportunity for wonderful help, greater service to the client and a colleague who is rich with observations and insights.<br>Plus the extra added value of helping a colleague grow into the field and gain more experience. And I see it as my 'pay it forward' for having received such rich learning and opportunities from my diversely experienced colleagues.<br><br></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">I see their putting these jobs on their resumes (for example, 'Newsroom Coordinator' as an essential role assisting an organization in utilizing their own documentation for their continued growth and learning) as a real job with real responsibility required, whether or not they were paid or pro bono consultants on that job.<br><br></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">I ask all clients if I can bring someone along to assist and ask them if they have funding for this. Often they do. If not, I try to find funding from my own resources. If I do not have resources it is often seen as an unpaid collaboration for the benefit of learning.<br><br></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">I find that offering learning opportunities for colleagues helps strengthen our work and our field.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I invite some of you on this list to share with us your experiences of being invited to help on Open Space events as you were / have been emerging into this field and this practice.</div><div>I invite others of you to share your experiences of bringing a newly emerging facilitator into a job of yours.</div><div>Tell us the (mutual) benefits and the learning - even your stories of when it has not been a good idea for the client, participants, or for you.</div><div><br></div><div>I think we have a learning opportunity here. </div><div>Thanks to David and Jack for tickling these thoughts in my head and opening up the learning opportunity.</div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to hearing others' thoughts on this.</div><div><br></div><div>A warm hello from a gray Berkeley California morning,</div><div><br></div><div>Lisa</div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11px; 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; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11px; 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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Lisa Heft</font></b></span></font></div><div>Consultant, Facilitator, Educator</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Opening Space</font></b></span></font></div><div><a href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net">lisaheft@openingspace.net</a></div><div><a href="http://www.openingspace.net">www.openingspace.net</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></span></div></span></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> Jack Martin Leith wrote:</font></div></blockquote></div><ul><li>What the client is really paying for is the consulting work and the design and organisation of the event. Facilitating the event is the easy bit that happens at the end. So to get maximum value from working with an experienced practitioner you'd really need to be involved in the entire project.</li><li><div>How do I explain your presence to the client?</div></li><li><div>What would your role be on the day, aside from helping get the space ready? Once the agenda is created and the sessions are up and running, there's very little for the facilitator to do.</div></li><li><div>I'll probably get shot down in flames for saying this, but what the hell: Here in the UK, OS consulting is a crowded marketplace. Do I really want to help make it even more crowded?</div></li></ul><div>I mentioned that last point because I suspect that the "training a new competitor" issue is often there, if unconscious, when an OS consultant is asked "Can I be an extra pair of hands?" and it's best that you're aware of it. Although the Open Space community is very supportive, and I do whatever I can to share knowledge and help others, the reality is that we're operating in a very competitive environment. I've competed with friends and collaborators for OS work on several occasions.</div><div> </div></div></body></html>*
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