I love it!!!^^ Abraços
spark 2012. 2. 26. 오전 4:02에 "Lisa Heft" <lisah...@openingspace.net>님이 작성: > I am glad that my also announcing the upcoming event I am hosting does not > break these nutrient-rich streams. > You know how it is when you are hosting an event and want your fabulous > colleagues to join you - and there are also many pre-work tasks. > I am so happy that I can now step back into this marvelous conversation - > and thank you Artur for inspiring it. > > Artur and Bernd I love what you say and Artur your recent post makes me > think once again how strongly I feel that the facilitator should not be the > 'catalyst' or 'interventionist' but more the 'nutritionist'. > This includes both our roles before the event, during and afterwards - in > a way that supports others' capacity - but there is a nuance here - a > continuum between overly doing things that they can do (let us say in the > pre-work or during the OSonOS) and adding things we think they 'need' > during the OS (like our help, our helping them think, our intervention) ... > and ... not being present at all. > > So as a facilitator (and I also teach but I see myself more as a learning > facilitator in those moments) - I feel I definitely do have responsibility > to support and act - it is the *way* I do so that either erases someone > else's ability and capacity or gives focus to it. > > Like being as I call it a 'conscious non-interventionist' during the Open > Space. > Or offering reasons or lessons learned about invitation strategy to the > client in the pre-work phase but not doing it for them or making those > decisions for them. > Like helping the client design how they will collect documentation in a > way that will help them and their participants reflect and review > post-OSonOS event. > > To me it is all more learner-centered / participant-centered / > client-centered than facilitator-driven. > > Bernardo - you make me fondly miss Mozambique, where I facilitated over > several years using Open Space and other participant-driven dialogue > processes and then - as we all do in Open Space particularly - got out of > the way to be amazed... > > Abraços > Lisa > > > > > > On Feb 25, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Artur Silva wrote: > > Yes, Bernardo, you are right. Sometimes one must give the fish, teach to > fish and also help learning how to learn. > > You are also right that this "to help to learnr" is indeed "to > facilitate". I avoided the term because quite often - as HO mentioned - > many people think (and do) "facilitate too much", disempowering the other > and making more difficult for him to learn by himself. > > And your story in Mozambique (Beira) is marvelous. > > Abraço > > Artur > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > >
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