My experience is that the "one facilitator" is simply the initial meta-inviter - the one who invites others to invite others into the natural unfolding of sessions. There may be then in all dozens of "facilitators" who participate in the unfolding of space. In that sense, the power and passion and responsibility of facilitation is distributed/decentralized, as power and passion and responsibility is in any healthy self-organizing system.
Jack ~~~~~~~~~~ jack ricchiuto two.one.six/three.seven.three/seven.four.seven.five www.designinglife.com / www.appreciativeleadership.org ------------Original Message------------ From: Andrew Rixon <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Tue, May-3-2005 3:02 AM Subject: Multiple Facilitator Roles in Open Space Dear All, In traditional forms of group processes there is ‘room’ for co-facilitation, ie, where more than one facilitator can work together with the group. It appears (based on my limited learnings in Open space) that there is ‘room’ for only ONE Open Space facilitator within a group? I would be interested to hear your views regarding this… Kind regards, Andrew -- Andrew Rixon B.Sc(hons) PhD Urban Water Infrastructure CSIRO- Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology http://www.cmit.csiro.au P.O Box 56 (Graham Road), Highett, 3190, Victoria, Australia Tel: +61 3 9252 6363 Fax:+ 61 3 9252 6249 Mobile: 0400 352 809 Email: [email protected] * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
