Raffi, Sorry this last message went before I intended so it has an abrupt end which I will elaborate on at another time.
love Phelim x ----------------------------- I generally pick up emails only at the beginning and end of the working day. I am currently aiming to respond the following day. If it is urgent please call me on 07956 187298. ___________________///////////// Sent from my iPhone On 21 Oct 2012, at 17:17, Phelim McDermott <phe...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Raffi, > > Nice to hear from you I missed you at WOSonOs. > > Truth be told it is confusing. Paul's critique is one of the Wosonos event.. > and the style.. but also of the collective community. Which he then > generalises outward.. so some of the things he talks about could be my style > or perhaps many other facilitators he knows about or has seen. > > So as Chris says its not that helpful. It would be great to have a proper > conversation with him but I dont know if he is on the LIST or not. I might > contact him personally when I'm feeling a bit more robust. (He hasn't said a > word I hadn't already heard from my own inner critics..) > > But If i allow myself to conjecture I think his main criticsim would be that > at WOSonOS that the facillitator talked too much and used a mike. .. and > perhaps that we added too much to what should be a simple form EG the sticky > wall (which i've told him was a solution choice to not being able to use the > walls). We added other social things. a welcoming event and some trips on > buses and a presentation that Kerry gave to HArrison.. it could be argued > these things inhibited emergent celebration and festivities. > > Overall It's a plea for simplicity. All valid... But not what we chose to do. > If our WOSonOS is seen as a series of breakout sessions across the world and > time it had a particular flavour he didnt care for perhaps.. > > With regard to your "What prevents.. " question I would say nothing... except > perhaps that for some people the exsting atmosphere of a community could be > experienced as oppressive or inhibiting to those impulses in the same way > that the expression of disgruntlement is easier to do via a blog afterwards > than doing it in the moment during the event. > > > > I would say that the difficult areas of WOSonOS are around taking care of the > ongoing story with stuff that gets passed on. So I felt particularly the > pressure of the responsibilities of the handover with looking after what was > happening in the group. > > Best regards, > > Phelim McDermott > ----------------------------- > I generally pick up emails only at the beginning and end of the working day. > I am currently aiming to respond the following day. If it is urgent please > call me on 07956 187298. > ___________________///////////// > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 21 Oct 2012, at 16:41, Raffi Aftandelian <raffi_1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> folks, >> i wasn't there and i read paul's post and truth be told I don't quite >> understand what exactly took place at WOSonOS that was different that he >> didn't like. >> >> Can anyone explain what is the substance of the criticism? >> >> What prevents anyone from doing something outside of sessions?? >> >> What would prevent anyone from taking the self-stick well and stick a huge >> piece of paper on that and then use giant post-it sheets for the session >> sheets? >> >> i'm befuddled! >> >> thanks, >> raffi >> >> >> powered by ubuntu 10.4 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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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