Well said, Michael - and something that is great for when we help our
clients / hosts understand the meaning (for when they develop the
text) of invitation.
Perhaps all great invitations can have this as their value:
"I am going, because it matters. Come with me. We need you."
Lisa
Lisa Heft
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
Opening Space
lisah...@openingspace.net
On May 24, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Michael Herman wrote:
what i notice about this, yes there was no facilitator, no bulletin
board, no circle or planning team or evening news or some of the
other "things we do" when we "do" open space. nobody briefed anyone
on the four principles or the law of two feet. but there was
purpose and invitation, very distributed, but common and present.
the simplest and most powerful of invitations, i think: "come with
me, come with us, we're going to do somethign important..."
what we would normally call invitation list, or logistics, food
plan, documentation... those things can be found in the scenes and
stories of this time in the square, but it seems to me they have to
be sort of sifted out, almost consructed, after the fact. but
invitation and importance must have been conscious and visible to
everyone, even in midst the whole thing.
invitation is personal, importance cultural. we can't make
something important, it's more of a common recognition, it can only
be watched for, sensed and articulated. and invitation is only
something we can do from inside of our own prior commitment. nobody
was saying "hey, you should all go to the square and then i'll see
you next week and you can tell me how it went, or report back to me
in the staff meeting next week." the only invitation that matters
is "i'm going, because it matters. come with me, we need you."
m
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