I’ve actually received feedback in the other direction. Years ago I did some work with a law firm. They hated the silence I suggested when we gathered as a whole group. It was a lesson to pay attention to the culture of the organization. Silence is helpful and it needs to be contextualized differently for different groups.
Peggy _________________________________ Peggy Holman Executive Director Journalism that Matters 15347 SE 49th Place Bellevue, WA 98006 425-746-6274 www.journalismthatmatters.net www.peggyholman.com Twitter: @peggyholman JTM Twitter: @JTMStream Enjoy the award winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity <http://www.engagingemergence.com/> Check out my series on what's emerging in the news & information ecosystem <http://www.journalismthatmatters.net/the_emerging_news_and_information_eco_system> > On Jun 15, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Harold Shinsato via OSList > <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > > Thanks, Micheal, those were both structures I was considering. > > My neighbors in Missoula have lots of facilitated silence in other things > they do, like yoga, spiritual retreats, etc. I should not have been surprised > some felt deprived. > > Has anyone else received such feedback, and if so how did you process it. > > Thanks again! > Harold > > On Jun 15, 2015 12:37 PM, "Michael Herman" <mich...@michaelherman.com > <mailto:mich...@michaelherman.com>> wrote: > i think you can build it in, as much or as little as you feel is right for > each situation, harold, just in the pacing of your opening briefing, if you > like. you ring the bells, silence happens. you decide when to bump that > silence with walking into the circle. you decide when to break it when you > start talking. you put space between sentences and the different parts of > your briefing. > > i saw a video of myself in a circle of about 300, one big circle. my pacing > was, for me, excrutiatingly slow to watch. but i also had what felt like a > lot of ground to cover, to get around and engage with folks all along that > circle. when i finished, people literally ran to the center of the circle. > so i think it worked pretty well. > > lisa kimball suggested to me recently that a minute of silence is one of the > simplest possible liberating structure. (liberatingstructures.com > <http://liberatingstructures.com/>) she describes taking a minute at the > beginning of a meeting, not in a woo-woo way, but in a very practical way: > we're all busy people, coming from different places, let's take EXACTLY on > minute to let brains finish where they've been and get ready for the work > we're about to do here... will be long for some and too short for others, but > promise it will be EXACTLY a minute... and then we'll dive into [the work]. > her liberating structures materials might be posted somewhere at > groupjazz.com <http://groupjazz.com/> > > m > > > > > > > -- > > Michael Herman > Michael Herman Associates > http://MichaelHerman.com <http://michaelherman.com/> > http://OpenSpaceWorld.org <http://openspaceworld.org/> > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList > <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> > wrote: > The Open Space for the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center > (http://civicrm.jrpc.org/rising-from-the-ashes > <http://civicrm.jrpc.org/rising-from-the-ashes>) I facilitated this Saturday > went extremely well. We had a full day of sessions and high levels of > engagement, and the center's Executive Director said it way exceeded her > expectations. > > After sitting in the glow of so many thank you's, gratitude, and "good job" > the day of the event and afterwards - I was surprised and quite annoyed by a > bit of feed back second hand through email... > > "there should have been a 5-minute or so thinking time." > > "Some people needed more quiet time to gather there thoughts." > > As people become more familiar with Open Space, my personal experience is > that rather than a long awkward and anxiety filled pause as facilitators > worry if anyone will post a session - instead, especially in public OST > events, people launch and line up to populate the agenda. This has bothered > me, but this is the first time I've heard the complaint of a *lack* of > silence in the opening. > > After my initial annoyance, and speaking with an Open Space colleague, my > wife, and another space holding professional, I wondered if this weren't > actually something that can help there be authentic open space, and not just > a cargo cult going through the motions. > > I'm pondering a way to help there be space before people come to the center > to announce their sessions - but without doing some heavy facilitated silence > or meditation process. > > Any thoughts, suggestions? > > Thank you! > Harold > > > -- > Harold Shinsato > har...@shinsato.com <mailto:har...@shinsato.com> > http://shinsato.com <http://shinsato.com/> > twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush> > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > <mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > <mailto:oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org> > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > <http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org> > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org > <http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.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 > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
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