dear colleagues, I facilitated an open space and after the participants announced their issues, while I openend the market-place, I realized my body wasn´t sure where to stand/go:
I had left the circle and was now in what I call "the room in between": outside the people`s circle and inside the "line" of the principals; while talking I moved forward, so that I stood in one of the aisles, on the line of the circle and at one point I moved a little back into the circle, but not very deep; when I ended with the words that from now on everything will be self-organized, I was back on the circle-line, before drawing back completely. I had one moment, when I didn´t feel comfortable, in the beginning of the market-place, when I stood behind the people, in their back, and one moment when I felt unsure, when I moved back into the circle. One reason for this I know: there was not as much space between the circle and the pin-boards, as is good for my feeling of space and I didn´t have/take enough time before the beginning of the os to get adjusted. But this experience raised a general question in me actually I caught my mind wandering for a nano-second while opening the market-place, where I really want to go as the facilitator during this part of the os-introduction and why; and I realized I couldn´t remember how I and others have done it, I only had this image in me of a wider circle, a wider space so, now I am curious to hear of the ways you do it, and your thougths about it. Greetings from Berlin, where we enjoy a wonderful golden Fall! Juliane ___________________________________________________ Juliane Ade, boscop eg Hasenheide 9, 10 967 Berlin T: ++49-30 747 39 622, F: - 623 www.boscop.de <http://www.boscop.de/> 3rd annual international gathering on InterActive Organizations 24. - 26. November 2006 in Istanbul INVITATION: www.acicalanteknoloiisi.com <http://www.acicalanteknoloiisi.com/> open space-Lernwerkstatt 12.bis 15. Januar 2007 in Schmöckwitz bei Berlin, www.boscop.de <http://www.boscop.de/> International Open Space Technology Training November 2006 in Blossin / Germany, www.boscop.de <http://www.boscop.de/> * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist