I stay in the room usually, at least for the first part of the marketplace. The reason is because I love watching it happen. I stay out of the way for sure, tidying up coffee cups, maybe grabbing my laptop and typing out to the topics so that I look busy enough that no one will bother me. But I love watching the crowd self-organize...it's almost my raison d'etre.
I did take a nap once...it was the morning I opened space for OSonOS IX here in Vancouver, but in that case I had our dear friend Laurel Doersam at my back, and she offered to hold space while I slpet off a bad headache. That day I slept in a little lounge near one of the breakout spaces, in full view of the crowd of comedians that had gathered with us in Vancouver. As I drifted in and out of sleep, curcled up on a couch, I heard several chuckles as folks clued in to what I was doing, paying homage to Harrison, who was unable to join us, in my own small way. Chris On 10/17/06, Sheila Beauchemin <s.beauche...@shaw.ca> wrote:
Thanks all for all the responses to my follow-up questions around how to stay present while not physically being present and other threads... The direction of this conversation reminded me of some words of wisdom I received before embarking on the adventure of parenthood. We have to take care of three important relationships in our lives - person, partner, parent in that order. Neglect of any one has consequences for the other. I think there is a correlation that can be made to what you are saying about facilitation in open space. Once again - thanks for the encouragement and the perspectives. Sheila Victoria BC * * ========================================================== 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
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