<div>Hiya Jon.</div>
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<div>I agree with Barry's comments.</div>
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<div>Sometimes I get people back to the wall after the first round of sessions, to see if people want to cancel their posted session, or add a new session.</div>
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<div>A participant who was apprehensive about hosting a session has just experienced what little it takes, and may now be ready to step into the role of host.</div>
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<div>I know one OS facilitator who has the participants create the agenda one round at a time - i.e. they return to the circle at the end of each round. There's a lot to be said for this approach as it enables greater emergence. Yes, there are downsides too. But when I told my friend "It's not usually done that way" and he replied "Why not?", I was stuck for an answer, beyond that old standy, "In his book, Harrison Owen says ... "</div>
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<div>Hope all's good where you are, Jon.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 22 July 2010 12:41, Barry Owen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barryo@comcast.net">barryo@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>My experience is that the process (OST) takes care of these "shy" people without anything new for me to do (no intervention)</div>
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<div>Many of them become butterflies and say what they came to say one-on-one . . . a bumblebee gets ahold of their ideas and buzzes around with them thereby becoming their megaphone.</div>
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<div>I believe many shy people want to find "co-conspirators" to raise their confidence before opening their mouths . . . so they typically are mute at the opening . . . and sometimes the most vocal after they've found some kindred Spirits.</div>
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<div>There's my 2 cents . . . Looking forward to "hearing what others have to say.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Jon Harvey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon@jonharveyassociates.co.uk" target="_blank">jon@jonharveyassociates.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">You won’t be surprised to know that I have never had a problem speaking (and even performing) in public. This isn’t just because I have a lot of passion and desire to make the world a better place (and entertain people!) – it is because I have a good dollop of confidence. I probably blame my parents for this as they always had lots of confidence in me.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">So when it comes to speaking up in an Open Space and saying what session I would like to run, there is no problem for me. But there does appear to be a problem for some people. Maybe. When I am facilitating an Open Space, I aim to do all I can in the introduction to make it easy for anyone, no matter how shy or lacking in confidence they are, to come forward. Whilst I almost always step outside of the circle, I hang about near the microphone sometimes, or not. I place chocolates in the middle to lure people into declaring their passion and offering to run a session. I look calmly on and simply ‘be’ when no one is coming forward... (sometimes). </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">And then the sponsor says, perhaps people are just too shy, speaking into the microphone is just too daunting, will you offer to speak for people if they write it out first, shall I do this, could they just place the meeting notice on the agenda wall, is Open Space only for confident people, do we need more structure...? (etc.) I feel uncomfortable, I know that people have ideas and questions they would like to discuss and I know some people find speaking to a group (big or small) really, really scary. I want to stay ‘true’ to the principle of passion in OS – but I also want to help... Or am I in danger of intervening too much? Whatever happens is the only thing which could have, and whoever turns up is the right people...</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I could go on... but I hope you get my gist. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">What do you do? How do you create the space in which everyone who has a passion, no matter how scared they feel, comes forward with their offer? How do you make that daunting threshold of speaking to a group, just so ‘right’ that no one feels too shy to come forward – if they want to come forward...? </span></p>
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