How funny! It seems that Temasek Polytechnic has a different perspective on 'inappropriate' or a very strange filter system! It reached me fine. Thanks Suzanne!
Kind regards Amanda Commercial Mediator www.AmandaBucklow.co.uk www.blog.AmandaBucklow.co.uk +44 207 121 8772 P Save a tree ... please do not print this e-mail unless you really need to On 18 Feb 2013, at 15:03, Suzanne Daigle wrote: > Hi all, I posted a response to Tricia's "Sticky dots" email to us early this > morning. To my surprise, I then received this alert. Don't know if my message > went through and certainly don't know what was unacceptable or inappropriate > except maybe what "self organization and Open Space" might invite :-) > > The following email message has been blocked by automated email security > system: > > From: sdaig...@gmail.com > To: clet...@tp.edu.sg > Subject: Re: [OSList] Sticky dots Q - San Fran event reflections > Message: B512207ab0000.000000000001.0001.mml > > Because it may contain unacceptable language, or inappropriate material. > > Temasek Polytechnic > Email Security Team > > So here is what I wrote and I hope it will be acceptable and appropriate to > whoever: > > Dear Tricia, > > Thank you for sharing this with us all as you have. What a gift! I love how > you just let it rip describing it. All the details, your feelings along the > way, and your reflections and retrospective. I will let others comment as I > do not think I could ever make one suggestion of anything that you should > have done differently. For me, it's not the point. And yes I will be longish > too... > > On January 22nd (not even a full month ago), you came onto this list and > said: "I am an OST newbie who is hoping to facilitate an Open Space for my > main client's annual meeting in a few weeks and I would like to get your > thoughts on incorporating hands on skill transfer into an Open Space. I did > do some book reading on OST and just attended the OST meeting in NYC this > weekend, but have never hosted an Open Space. Then... you added I do not > provide facilitation for this organization. I am one of a number of project > managers who work on teams to conduct market research and strategy consulting > projects for their clients in the life sciences arena. They have agreed to my > participation in the facilitation of the meetings and I have referenced OST, > but we have not yet discussed details on meeting design and I am pretty sure > they are not familiar with OST. This meeting will be a small group of only > the US folks - 14 in total. We will be meeting for 2.5 days. On an ongoing > basis, we are all remote workers across the US and in Europe and Japan and > only see each other when we travel to a client's location." > > I remember thinking as I read this then: "Wow this may turn out to be a bit > of a challenge but you go girl. Why a challenge? Because I interpreted that > you were working with peer facilitators and consultants. And what I also > know is how very different is the way of facilitating Open Space than > traditional facilitation. Taking from the French word "faciliter" it can mean > making things easier for others or "plus facile" translated literally "more > easy". Well for me therein lies the sticky wicket, whether in facilitation > or leadership, making things easier for others, smoother, more predictable, > coordinating, helping, managing, controlling, inspiring, synthesizing, doing > project management, guiding strategy, taking care of, having it all together, > are all the words of our profession. Yes most often that's what project > managers, consultants and leaders get paid for. I spent a lifetime doing this > with what I thought were good intentions. Making things easier for others. I > got successful at it, was promoted and recognized. And yet inside myself I > never felt all that good about it. I really only felt happy when everyone was > working together as equals, with everyone jumping in and letting it rip. When > stuff was happening in all its messiness, with folks doing the most amazing > things, going beyond anything anyone could dream of. I had had sparks of this > in my career but had never been able to connect the dots...until I met Open > Space. This stuff of self-organizing and an invitation for me to bravely and > vulnerably unleash my own leadership with tons of room for others to unleash > theirs without knowing where it would lead was a huge leap. > > Harrison said: You can’t open space if your space ain’t open! Well I might > disagree a tad. > > I did open space even when my space wasn't yet open. I had to start > somewhere and jump right in. Cause it was only in the doing of it, jumping on > the court, not sitting in the bleachers that I got my courage and learning. > > It was easier said than done. I had a lifetime of "unlearning to do"! And it > was painful and scary, still is, though a lot less. . After all, it > confronted everything I had done and what folks typically described as > success...an empty success really. Yes Open Space confronts a lot of the > stuff that we've been doing in leadership and facilitation...it is quite > confronting to see how much gets done, how energized and passionate people > get to be, how productive we all become when we simply "Sit in a circle, > create a bulletin board, open and market place, and go to work". All that > effort, all that work, all that preparation, leading and guiding for naught! > > And whether consciously or unconsciously, that's what people start getting > when they participate in Open Space (whether you are facilitating or > participating). I didn't get this at first Tricia, all I can say is I did > what you did. I just jumped right in, faulting myself a lot for the things I > was doing wrong that I could have done better but really in the end, it > didn't much matter cause I was opening space and learning to unlearn a little > bit more every day. > > When I started in Open Space, I jumped in just like you... . I talked about > it all the time...still do. Doing it for free, for pay, for a few bucks or > many more bucks. I made a commitment then, early on that I would do one Open > Space a month, whether I sponsored it myself or was invited. My journey in > Open Space started a short 4 years ago! I have lost count how many Open > Spaces I have facilitated, co-facilitated or attended. And now this year, I > and others are hosting the World Open Space in St. Petersburg Florida. > > So Tricia, you did nothing wrong. I feel as if you were drawn into this and > gave your heart and soul to it. You invited others on the basis of what you > experienced in New York. You jumped right in and I applaud you for trusting > your intuition and for courageously asking us for help and for sharing. In > my book, you did nothing wrong and you did everything right. > > Thank you Tricia, I am so glad you are here. Maybe we will see you in > Florida! 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