A long time ago, I learned from reading an article by Malcolm Knowles that adults learn best when they have the opportunity to work themselves out of chaos. Then the work they do and the lesson they learn feel more "owned" to them. This makes sense to me, so I never use a grid. I divide the wall by days and also by morning and afternoon. Perhaps in the name of doing one less thing I shall drop the latter.
My instinct to think up ways to be helpful is waning. I no longer consider it impolite, unwelcoming, unloving, or hard-edged of me to do less for people in OS events. One of my favorite occurrences in OS is watching what happens when someone arrives late. They rarely come to me to ask what to do because they were not present to see me do the opening and thus have no idea who I am. So they go to someone they know. Ever see this happen? Watch. The conversation is always very brief, then the newcomer nods, and everybody goes about their business. I keep imagining that some day I'll be able to do the whole opening with no words and just a few hand signals. Ralph Copleman * * ========================================================== [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
