I am new on this list (and I am now able to email to it as well). I
have only recently become interested in Open Space but have yet to
experience it first hand. I am in the process of building a practice as a mediator and facilitator. I have for several years worked in non-profit and co-operative management but prior to that I have a background as a performing musician. It still amazes me how similar I find the work of facilitation to the work of music making. You work with other people, you create something, you never now what is going to happen, and it comes in so many different forms. Music making can be very prescripted with music written on a page and with a rigid conductor, or it can be totally free form (free improvisation), and with a whole range in between. Being a facilitator is like being a conductor and in this role you can choose to be directive, or facilitative, or try to stay more out of the way. Staying out of the way seems to be is what OS is more about which is why I find it so interesting. In my work, my predicament is that I often work with groups that have little ability to meet for whole days and challenge for me would be to find a way to use something like Open Space in these circumstances. (I actually got intrigued by Lisa's and Chris' recounts of events where almost no one showed up. That's perhaps something I could use) Another thing that I am curious about is when to use OS and when not, and what people like to use instead? Looking forward to Open Space. Bui K. Petersen www.buildconsensus.ca --
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