Dear Reinhard, I hope you are well recovered, and now basking in good health.
I jumping into this session now, you prove that wonderful principle when its not over, its not over. As you know, I love your work and whenever I have been in a session in which you provide the visual facilitation, it adds a dimension during the OST meeting AND a dimension after the OST meeting that I miss very much when we do not have you. For me, this is an example of bringing in a dimension to facilitation that invites the expansion of consciousness. I am intrigued by the statistics you present. I think that these same statistics apply inside an organization on a daily basis when the organization is getting its business done. People do not have access to the whole picture, even when the space is considered open. This leads me to wondering what the implications are and to wondering what my beliefs about upgrading the facilitator of OST meetings could include beyond what I have thought about before. What a day of wonderful wondering. It is raining gently here, with warm rain, a nice relief from intense heat. I had the glorious opportunity to go for a swim in the rain, all by myself with nature, and followed this with a hike in the forests again immersing myself in nature with no distractions. I was wondering about a quote I read this morning from a friend Jaden Rose Phoenix I am a fractal. Fractals can organize in ways that support each other. I wondered about being a fractal of a whole. I wondered about the whole affecting the fractal. And I wondered about the fractal self organizing in ways that support each other, within the influence of the whole. Great fun. Blessings, Birgitt From: VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE [mailto:m...@visuelle-protokolle.de] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 1:40 PM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] energy field of the facilitator and its influence on OST outcomes Dear OS-friends, I have been in hospital for some days, so my response comes a little late. But some of you won't like it earlier or later, and for me it stays valid also after time. Since Birgitt showed up and opened the dialogue with Harrison, I wanted to jump into the ring as well. I fully support Birgitts approach to lift the level of consciousness of facilitators. I like also Harrisons love for self organization and share it. BUT I ask: self organization of what? Of the OS meeting? I think that's by far not enough. My credo: an egoless organization could, would create heavon on earth. Once I was visualizing a big OS. The theme: Rising the quality of the Inner City of X. The OS facilitator, a famous colleague, told me: I don't care a bit if they get a better Inner City, I care that they have a good OS! Here I strongly disagree. If people want to use self organization to meliorate their City, I want to support them in any way. I don't care if they use OS or other effective ways (we offer some), but if they use it, they should get the best out of it. And over the years grew my following thoughts: ASPECT 1 An average participant chooses his groups at the marketplace. If he chooses one out of 15 possible groups per time slot, he participates in 6-7% of the groups. His information at the end about process and results covers 6-7%. If he is a bumble bee, and if he watches the written results of other groups carefully, and if he even reads written reports, his information level could rise to 10, 15, even 20%. He will never see the full picture, although he feels the energy of 100%. Nobody so far mentioned this fact as far as I know, in all the discussions and OSONOS'es. Here Visualization can help. The visualizers go from group to group, like bumble bees, noticing, noticing, noticing, transforming process, results and atmosphere into images. We are doing it on little cards, which you can take into every corner, participate in discussions silently, go wherever we feel the energy rising, as Max Schupbach calls that. With our pictures we then form a continuous picture wall, where everybody can follow the process. And in the evening News we project the images to the whole group. Scientific research shows, that hereby the awareness of process and results jumps from 20% to 60%. ASPECT 2 If the OS has consequences, the images are a strong tool. To remember what happened. To show it to others, who did not participate, for example board members. To use them as starting platform for new work groups. To compare later results with the original intention. And always: to remember. If you only want to create a beautiful OS, Visualization certainly is one thing less to do. If you want to support self organization, in a company, an organization , using OS as a tool, to sharpen this tool by Visualization is great. After hundreds of projects I know what I am talking about. Some will say: There is nothing to improve in OST! OK, but maybe there is something to improve in the use of OST for self organization. Reinhard Reinhard Kuchenmüller Dr. Marianne Stifel VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE® tel +39-0566-88 929 www.visuelle-protokolle.de
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