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Hi Harold,<br><br>
Even though it is my favorite thing of all the things that I do, I am not
sure I would want to be a full time Open Space facilitator. And I
think that to be successful busineswise, it is good to have focus
but it is not always good to be a one trick pony. I like it when people
come to me and say: I have heard you are good at creating great meetings,
would you like to do this meeting for us? I like it even better when they
say: we have this problem in our organization, would you come look at it
and help us out? I like it a lot less when the request is something like:
we have an Open Space meeting on June 20 in Amsterdam, can you facilitate
it?<br><br>
The last request is just for me to do my trick. I have the idea if I
would become Mr. Open Space, I would get a lot more of these requests
that I don't really like. I would much rather be Mr. Great Meetings, or
Mr. Problem Solver. What kind of Mr. or Ms would you all like to
be?<br><br>
Warm wishes from a rainy (finally!) Utrecht.<br><br>
Koos<br><br>
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At 01:37 17-5-2011, Harold Shinsato wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I just read this in Seth Godin's
latest tract - "Poke the Box". I've heard occasionally that
some folks are having trouble making ends meet as Open Space Technology
facilitators. Yet others seem to be doing ok. I've been wishing I could
do this full time - go out - get clients - and facilitatre OST
conferences full time - but Seth's quote kind of threw that back at
me.<br>
<br><br>
"My friend Jessica wants to be a conference organizer. You can hire
her and she'll sweat every single detail of your event. Give her the
attendee list, the venue, and the agenda, and the conference will go off
without a hitch.<br><br>
"The problem with this plan is that it involves being picked by the
event promoter. If she gets picked often, it's a fine living. If she can
negotiate a fair payday, it's a fine living. But Jessica must pitch the
promoter, hat in hand.<br><br>
"So... why not be the promoter, the initiator, the one in charge and
responsible?"<br><br>
- Seth Godin, Poke the Box, p. 25<br><br>
<br>
This sounds a lot more like the spirit of OST than going out looking for
clients who want to do OST events. This is very personal for me as
Missoula BarCamp's OST event happens on Saturday. I went out and just got
it started - but it's not exactly a money maker at this point. But what
Seth says, just initiating cool OST events, sounds a lot more juicy than
trying to pitch OST facilitation.<br><br>
Any enlightenment anyone? What's the path to abundant full time Open
Space living?<br><br>
-- <br>
Harold Shinsato<br>
<a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com">harold@shinsato.com</a><br>
<a href="http://shinsato.com/" eudora="autourl">http://shinsato.com</a>
<br>
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