Re: [OSList] How much Silence at beginning?
Harold said... Would 8 minutes of grounding silence after the welcome and logistics opened enough space for participants so they didn't need silent reflection time with their papers and markers to gather their thoughts? Do you offer anything before letting the participants make their offerings to help invite in the transfinite? I love your intensity. But I do have to ask. 8 Minutes? On which planet, what galaxy? And who cares? Deep silence makes its own time. My experience. ho Winter Address 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-2093 Summer Address 189 Beaucaire Ave. Camden, ME 04843 207-763-3261 Websites www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: OSList [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Harold Shinsato via OSList Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 3:11 PM To: Anne Stadler; World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] How much Silence at beginning? Hi Anne, Thanks for your offering. The most incredible experiences (and hyper performance) of Open Space I am sure come from inviting the trans-finite, and not just the finite. Although this isn't rote, I'm curious as to your experience of offering this grounding exercise just after the welcome and the logistics. This does seem like a natural placement to me, and corresponds roughly to the point where Harrison generally walks the circle and asks folks to be aware of the others in the room. And at the same time, this doesn't specifically addresses the comment from a participant of a need for some silent reflection time just before people were invited to generate, announce, and post their sessions. Would 8 minutes of grounding silence after the welcome and logistics opened enough space for participants so they didn't need silent reflection time with their papers and markers to gather their thoughts? Do you offer anything before letting the participants make their offerings to help invite in the transfinite? Thanks! Harold On 6/17/15 12:35 PM, Anne Stadler via OSList wrote: How much silence depends on your intention: Are you opening space for the transfinite AND finite fields to emerge? Or only the finite? Are you opening inner space so people will access their capacity for being guided by the resonating field in their heart/mind/body awareness? (In order to really take responsibility for what they care about??) If finite, a small amount of silence helps people settle into their bodies and bring themselves here...now. Transfinite and finite (which is what i do) opens a more expansive space. It's not Woo-Woo. The work the field is supporting gets done regardless, just more co-creatively, more quickly-- synchronicities spark rapidly, delighting participants. Re silence: 1. I sometimes cue people to be aware of their feet on the floor, their legs, their bottoms on the chair, shoulders, top of head. 2.,And sometimes, after the Welcome logistics are dealt with, i simply invite them to be comfortable and relax into the chair, the silence, the feelings in their bodies. Usually i refer to a word or phrase in the Welcoming setup by the Host to help people make an outer/inner connection. I let silence go until i sense it's time to stop...not more than 8 minutes or so, probably. This is until i sense we are resonating together (i guess). Then i break the silence by standing and then, slowly beginning to walk the circle, opening the finite space of the circle, acknowledging each one as I pass. To open the silence, sometimes i invite a friend to sound a crystal bowl followed by 2. above. That is even more delicious. NOTE: none of this is rote! My preparation includes sensing into each group meditatively; getting clarity about who they are and what they need; and in the Now of the experience sensing into the circle and acting in the present moment. Thank you! Took me a while to ruminate on it. Good and interesting question! Thanks whoever posted it a while ago. Blessings! Anne -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush http://twitter.com/hajush ___ 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
Re: [OSList] No silence in opening
When people ask me to do an evaluation of Open Space I hand all the participants a firms that says complete this sentence: As a result of this meeting... Then we get real useful. feedback. Chris -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Harvest Moon Consultants Facilitation, Open Space Technology and process design Check www.chriscorrigan.com for upcoming workshops, blog posts and free resources. On Jun 19, 2015, at 12:32 PM, Michael Herman via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: here's one of my favorite stories about feedback, harold. some years ago i did one of those 10-day meditation courses (goenka, vipassana, for those who care) and then helped with hosting another one. on my third, as a participant, we had an old indian guy, the #2 teacher in the world at that time in that practice, sitting in with us, but i thought the actual course teacher and the overall organization were a little dodgy. we were just forming the community in the midwest US, working toward building a center. the practice was all about equanimity. i went to this great teacher, a kind of mountain of gentleness, and asked something like, what is more important, my responsibility to point out things that could help make the community better here or my staying in practice of equanimity? he says, reassuringly, these gypsy (not in an establish center) courses are always a bit difficult, not the ideal, always with different arrangements and challenges, BUT... if 10% of the people get 10% of the benefit, that will be enough. for me, it's same with open space. -- Michael Herman Michael Herman Associates http://MichaelHerman.com http://OpenSpaceWorld.org On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Hi Viv, Thank you! I appreciate you're joining the annoyance club with me :-) I've noticed some tendency towards people making open invitations to improve the process - and I'll be doing a post conference debrief/retrospective in a couple hours. I've no interest in taking on others anxieties about Open Space. And I'm also curious what you think about inviting feedback, and how to help make the best of it - not just for myself - but for the other stake holders in the process when an Open Space is being hosted by an organization? Thanks! Harold On 6/15/15 7:56 PM, Viv McWaters via OSList wrote: Hi Harold Ah, yes I share your annoyance. For me it has nothing to do with what you did or did not do at the opening etc, I'm sure it's just as it needed to be. It's the second-hand feedback, via email no less. Some people nearly always means me. It's also slightly passive-aggressive. I try not to take on other people's anxieties about open space - of which there seems to be a lot around - and simply get on with it. Cheers Viv Viv McWaters vivmcwaters.com.au creativefacilitation.com Australia +61 417 135 406 UK +44 79 3733 7935 Bringing meetings to life. Connecting people and ideas. -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
[OSList] Please join me next week for Governance Lab!
Dear Open Space colleagues [with apologies for cross-posting]: I'm very excited to be hosting Governance Lab, an experiment in virtual Open Space, and I would love to have some of you join me if this engagement calls to you. My partner in this work, Fyodor Ovchinnikov, posted about it a few weeks back, so I hope y'all are OK with another promo. Any help in extending personal invitations would also be most appreciated. What is Governance Lab? Governance Lab is a virtual social lab or unconference, from June 25th - July 2nd, on the theme of social ventures that leverage unconventional types of leadership, governance, and ownership. . Join a global gathering that connects practitioners innovating in the field with thought leaders and scholars who are bringing awareness of this work to academia and the wider world. . Promote your work, engage in collective inquiry, and request support for what matters most to you. * Participation can take place in many ways, and the scheduling is highly flexible. Click here for more information. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e-aeXOrL3CkENx3HAT4Lb3CHl-f7hIC38xP-wmu DLLs/edit#heading=h.qhjh3kuakxqi Some process notes for the OST crowd to reflect on. We're billing this as a social lab/unconference, based on an assessment that our main audience will resonate more with those terms. I'm curious what the experience of others has been in this regard? As far as tech, we'll be using MaestroConference and Zoom for live sessions (both hosted and self-scheduled), plus Slack as our 24/7 nerve center, asynch conversation space, and general hangout zone. Should be very interesting, especially if we can hit a critical participation mass. Another unconventional move is to open up the agenda creation process in advance for a limited number of sessions. Our thinking here is that many prospects might lack sufficient reference points (both for the virtual process and the broad subject) for deciding to participate, so having some concrete sense of some of what will be offered is valuable. We will be careful not to let the agenda get too full before the opening circle on the 25th, however, which will hopefully keep the space feeling truly open. If any of you would like to take advantage of the opportunity to call a session in advance, please let me know. And I'm also curious about your experiences with such a practice. I have a feeling it may turn out to be one of the ways that our beloved process evolves once it leaves its pure manifestation in the in-person realm. ;-) Regards, Ben Ben Roberts The Conversation Collaborative www. ConversationCollaborative.com http://www.conversationcollaborative.com/ (203) 426-1039 Skype: benjamin_j_roberts G+: benroberts@gmail.com tagxedo 1 ___ 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
Re: [OSList] OS Hotline notes! June 2nd
Thanks you, Tricia and all. Love it! Gail On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Tricia Chirumbole via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Hi all! I hereby declare that from this point henceforward, I shall be posting highlights from our OS Hotline discussions on my website blog. I am starting with our call from June 2nd and will post the past 2 weeks before our next call. I will keep posting a link to the listserv until someone asks me to cease and desist :) Yes, this is my way of blogging by way of the insights and wisdom of others! I hope you enjoy! http://bit.ly/OSHotlineNotes Tricia Chirumbole Facilitator. Coach. Champion. Co-Creative Culture Building Mojo Collaborative www.mojocollaborative.com 571-232-0942 skype: tricia.chirumbole twitter: @themojozone ___ 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 -- *Gail West, ICA* *3F, No. 12, Lane 5, Tien Mou W RdTaipei, Taiwan 111Ph) 8862) 2871-3150* email) icat...@gmail.com Skype) gwestica www.icatw.com ___ 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
Re: [OSList] Please join me next week for Governance Lab!
Ben and Fyodor, feel your energy and passion. Ben you taught me the possibilities of what I could experience virtually at a time when I could not yet imagine it. Now I know. Fyodor, the intensity and depth of what you write and are igniting are equally compelling. What a duo team. I can't attend unfortunately but I urge others to follow their intuition if they think this might interest them. Suzanne On Jun 19, 2015 6:20 PM, Ben Roberts via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Dear Open Space colleagues [with apologies for cross-posting]: I‘m very excited to be hosting “Governance Lab,” an experiment in virtual Open Space, and I would love to have some of you join me if this engagement calls to you. My partner in this work, Fyodor Ovchinnikov, posted about it a few weeks back, so I hope y’all are OK with another promo. Any help in extending personal invitations would also be most appreciated. *What is Governance Lab?* Governance Lab is a virtual “social lab” or “unconference,” from June 25th - July 2nd, on the theme of *social ventures that leverage unconventional types of leadership, governance, and ownership*. · Join a global gathering that connects practitioners innovating in the field with thought leaders and scholars who are bringing awareness of this work to academia and the wider world. · Promote your work, engage in collective inquiry, and request support for what matters most to you. - Participation can take place in many ways, and the scheduling is highly flexible. Click here for more information. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e-aeXOrL3CkENx3HAT4Lb3CHl-f7hIC38xP-wmuDLLs/edit#heading=h.qhjh3kuakxqi *Some process notes for the OST crowd to reflect on…* We’re billing this as a “social lab”/”unconference,” based on an assessment that our main audience will resonate more with those terms. I’m curious what the experience of others has been in this regard? As far as tech, we’ll be using MaestroConference and Zoom for live sessions (both hosted and self-scheduled), plus Slack as our 24/7 “nerve center,” asynch conversation space, and general hangout zone. Should be very interesting, especially if we can hit a critical participation mass. Another unconventional move is to open up the agenda creation process in advance for a limited number of sessions. Our thinking here is that many prospects might lack sufficient reference points (both for the virtual process and the broad subject) for deciding to participate, so having some concrete sense of some of what will be offered is valuable. We will be careful not to let the agenda get too full before the opening circle on the 25th, however, which will hopefully keep the space feeling truly “open.” If any of you would like to take advantage of the opportunity to call a session in advance, please let me know. And I’m also curious about your experiences with such a practice. I have a feeling it may turn out to be one of the ways that our beloved process evolves once it leaves its “pure” manifestation in the in-person realm. ;-) Regards, Ben *Ben Roberts* *The Conversation Collaborative* www. ConversationCollaborative.com http://www.conversationcollaborative.com/ (203) 426-1039 Skype: benjamin_j_roberts G+: benroberts@gmail.com [image: tagxedo 1] ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [OSList] How much Silence at beginning?
I probably also remind them to check what has heart and meaning and offer that as i open the marketplace offerings. Your Self Occupy 100% A world that works for ALL is a world of love made visible Phone: 206-459-0227 Skype: anne.m.stadler www.InClaritas.com www.CharterforCompassion.org www.ProtecttheSacred.org On Jun 19, 2015, at 12:10 PM, Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com wrote: Hi Anne, Thanks for your offering. The most incredible experiences (and hyper performance) of Open Space I am sure come from inviting the trans-finite, and not just the finite. Although this isn't rote, I'm curious as to your experience of offering this grounding exercise just after the welcome and the logistics. This does seem like a natural placement to me, and corresponds roughly to the point where Harrison generally walks the circle and asks folks to be aware of the others in the room. And at the same time, this doesn't specifically addresses the comment from a participant of a need for some silent reflection time just before people were invited to generate, announce, and post their sessions. Would 8 minutes of grounding silence after the welcome and logistics opened enough space for participants so they didn't need silent reflection time with their papers and markers to gather their thoughts? Do you offer anything before letting the participants make their offerings to help invite in the transfinite? Thanks! Harold On 6/17/15 12:35 PM, Anne Stadler via OSList wrote: How much silence depends on your intention: Are you opening space for the transfinite AND finite fields to emerge? Or only the finite? Are you opening inner space so people will access their capacity for being guided by the resonating field in their heart/mind/body awareness? (In order to really take responsibility for what they care about??) If finite, a small amount of silence helps people settle into their bodies and bring themselves here...now. Transfinite and finite (which is what i do) opens a more expansive space. It's not Woo-Woo. The work the field is supporting gets done regardless, just more co-creatively, more quickly-- synchronicities spark rapidly, delighting participants. Re silence: 1. I sometimes cue people to be aware of their feet on the floor, their legs, their bottoms on the chair, shoulders, top of head. 2.,And sometimes, after the Welcome logistics are dealt with, i simply invite them to be comfortable and relax into the chair, the silence, the feelings in their bodies. Usually i refer to a word or phrase in the Welcoming setup by the Host to help people make an outer/inner connection. I let silence go until i sense it's time to stop...not more than 8 minutes or so, probably. This is until i sense we are resonating together (i guess). Then i break the silence by standing and then, slowly beginning to walk the circle, opening the finite space of the circle, acknowledging each one as I pass. To open the silence, sometimes i invite a friend to sound a crystal bowl followed by 2. above. That is even more delicious. NOTE: none of this is rote! My preparation includes sensing into each group meditatively; getting clarity about who they are and what they need; and in the Now of the experience sensing into the circle and acting in the present moment. Thank you! Took me a while to ruminate on it. Good and interesting question! Thanks whoever posted it a while ago. Blessings! Anne -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush ___ 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
Re: [OSList] No silence in opening
here's one of my favorite stories about feedback, harold. some years ago i did one of those 10-day meditation courses (goenka, vipassana, for those who care) and then helped with hosting another one. on my third, as a participant, we had an old indian guy, the #2 teacher in the world at that time in that practice, sitting in with us, but i thought the actual course teacher and the overall organization were a little dodgy. we were just forming the community in the midwest US, working toward building a center. the practice was all about equanimity. i went to this great teacher, a kind of mountain of gentleness, and asked something like, what is more important, my responsibility to point out things that could help make the community better here or my staying in practice of equanimity? he says, reassuringly, these gypsy (not in an establish center) courses are always a bit difficult, not the ideal, always with different arrangements and challenges, BUT... if 10% of the people get 10% of the benefit, that will be enough. for me, it's same with open space. -- Michael Herman Michael Herman Associates http://MichaelHerman.com http://OpenSpaceWorld.org On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Hi Viv, Thank you! I appreciate you're joining the annoyance club with me :-) I've noticed some tendency towards people making open invitations to improve the process - and I'll be doing a post conference debrief/retrospective in a couple hours. I've no interest in taking on others anxieties about Open Space. And I'm also curious what you think about inviting feedback, and how to help make the best of it - not just for myself - but for the other stake holders in the process when an Open Space is being hosted by an organization? Thanks! Harold On 6/15/15 7:56 PM, Viv McWaters via OSList wrote: Hi Harold Ah, yes I share your annoyance. For me it has nothing to do with what you did or did not do at the opening etc, I'm sure it's just as it needed to be. It's the second-hand feedback, via email no less. Some people nearly always means me. It's also slightly passive-aggressive. I try not to take on other people's anxieties about open space - of which there seems to be a lot around - and simply get on with it. Cheers Viv Viv McWatersvivmcwaters.com.aucreativefacilitation.com Australia +61 417 135 406 UK +44 79 3733 7935 Bringing meetings to life. Connecting people and ideas. -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush http://twitter.com/hajush ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [OSList] How much Silence at beginning?
I actually never interrupt the flow after i tell people about how to offer their ideas. The field is already open and we are IN it at that time as a result of the early beginning silence. That's my experience anyhow, my dear Harold. Loved your TV appearance. You brought your usual clarity. Love Anne Your Self Occupy 100% A world that works for ALL is a world of love made visible Phone: 206-459-0227 Skype: anne.m.stadler www.InClaritas.com www.CharterforCompassion.org www.ProtecttheSacred.org On Jun 19, 2015, at 12:10 PM, Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com wrote: Hi Anne, Thanks for your offering. The most incredible experiences (and hyper performance) of Open Space I am sure come from inviting the trans-finite, and not just the finite. Although this isn't rote, I'm curious as to your experience of offering this grounding exercise just after the welcome and the logistics. This does seem like a natural placement to me, and corresponds roughly to the point where Harrison generally walks the circle and asks folks to be aware of the others in the room. And at the same time, this doesn't specifically addresses the comment from a participant of a need for some silent reflection time just before people were invited to generate, announce, and post their sessions. Would 8 minutes of grounding silence after the welcome and logistics opened enough space for participants so they didn't need silent reflection time with their papers and markers to gather their thoughts? Do you offer anything before letting the participants make their offerings to help invite in the transfinite? Thanks! Harold On 6/17/15 12:35 PM, Anne Stadler via OSList wrote: How much silence depends on your intention: Are you opening space for the transfinite AND finite fields to emerge? Or only the finite? Are you opening inner space so people will access their capacity for being guided by the resonating field in their heart/mind/body awareness? (In order to really take responsibility for what they care about??) If finite, a small amount of silence helps people settle into their bodies and bring themselves here...now. Transfinite and finite (which is what i do) opens a more expansive space. It's not Woo-Woo. The work the field is supporting gets done regardless, just more co-creatively, more quickly-- synchronicities spark rapidly, delighting participants. Re silence: 1. I sometimes cue people to be aware of their feet on the floor, their legs, their bottoms on the chair, shoulders, top of head. 2.,And sometimes, after the Welcome logistics are dealt with, i simply invite them to be comfortable and relax into the chair, the silence, the feelings in their bodies. Usually i refer to a word or phrase in the Welcoming setup by the Host to help people make an outer/inner connection. I let silence go until i sense it's time to stop...not more than 8 minutes or so, probably. This is until i sense we are resonating together (i guess). Then i break the silence by standing and then, slowly beginning to walk the circle, opening the finite space of the circle, acknowledging each one as I pass. To open the silence, sometimes i invite a friend to sound a crystal bowl followed by 2. above. That is even more delicious. NOTE: none of this is rote! My preparation includes sensing into each group meditatively; getting clarity about who they are and what they need; and in the Now of the experience sensing into the circle and acting in the present moment. Thank you! Took me a while to ruminate on it. Good and interesting question! Thanks whoever posted it a while ago. Blessings! Anne -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush ___ 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
Re: [OSList] How much Silence at beginning?
Hi Anne, Thanks for your offering. The most incredible experiences (and hyper performance) of Open Space I am sure come from inviting the trans-finite, and not just the finite. Although this isn't rote, I'm curious as to your experience of offering this grounding exercise just after the welcome and the logistics. This does seem like a natural placement to me, and corresponds roughly to the point where Harrison generally walks the circle and asks folks to be aware of the others in the room. And at the same time, this doesn't specifically addresses the comment from a participant of a need for some silent reflection time just before people were invited to generate, announce, and post their sessions. Would 8 minutes of grounding silence after the welcome and logistics opened enough space for participants so they didn't need silent reflection time with their papers and markers to gather their thoughts? Do you offer anything before letting the participants make their offerings to help invite in the transfinite? Thanks! Harold On 6/17/15 12:35 PM, Anne Stadler via OSList wrote: How much silence depends on your intention: Are you opening space for the transfinite AND finite fields to emerge? Or only the finite? Are you opening inner space so people will access their capacity for being guided by the resonating field in their heart/mind/body awareness? (In order to really take responsibility for what they care about??) If finite, a small amount of silence helps people settle into their bodies and bring themselves here...now. Transfinite and finite (which is what i do) opens a more expansive space. It's not Woo-Woo. The work the field is supporting gets done regardless, just more co-creatively, more quickly-- synchronicities spark rapidly, delighting participants. Re silence: 1. I sometimes cue people to be aware of their feet on the floor, their legs, their bottoms on the chair, shoulders, top of head. 2.,And sometimes, after the Welcome logistics are dealt with, i simply invite them to be comfortable and relax into the chair, the silence, the feelings in their bodies. Usually i refer to a word or phrase in the Welcoming setup by the Host to help people make an outer/inner connection. I let silence go until i sense it's time to stop...not more than 8 minutes or so, probably. This is until i sense we are resonating together (i guess). Then i break the silence by standing and then, slowly beginning to walk the circle, opening the finite space of the circle, acknowledging each one as I pass. To open the silence, sometimes i invite a friend to sound a crystal bowl followed by 2. above. That is even more delicious. NOTE: none of this is rote! My preparation includes sensing into each group meditatively; getting clarity about who they are and what they need; and in the Now of the experience sensing into the circle and acting in the present moment. Thank you! Took me a while to ruminate on it. Good and interesting question! Thanks whoever posted it a while ago. Blessings! Anne -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com mailto:har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush http://twitter.com/hajush ___ 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
Re: [OSList] No silence in opening
Thanks Chris - I appreciate the tip about counting breaths. Much better than staring at my watch! Harold On 6/15/15 8:25 PM, Chris Corrigan via OSList wrote: Yes to this… These days no matter what process I am doing, if I offer a minute of silence, instead of looking at a clock, I just count twelve slow breaths. That way you don;t make people anxious and you get a little meditation practice in. The longest I ever did this for was 15 minutes with a group of 180 theological educators. I counted 180 breaths. Many of them said they had never sat that long in silence with other human beings before. We did it to allow people to reflect on an important and energetic conflict in the gathering. It changed everything, and was indeed the simplest liberating structure I can think of. C -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com mailto:har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush http://twitter.com/hajush ___ 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
Re: [OSList] No silence in opening
Hi Viv, Thank you! I appreciate you're joining the annoyance club with me :-) I've noticed some tendency towards people making open invitations to improve the process - and I'll be doing a post conference debrief/retrospective in a couple hours. I've no interest in taking on others anxieties about Open Space. And I'm also curious what you think about inviting feedback, and how to help make the best of it - not just for myself - but for the other stake holders in the process when an Open Space is being hosted by an organization? Thanks! Harold On 6/15/15 7:56 PM, Viv McWaters via OSList wrote: Hi Harold Ah, yes I share your annoyance. For me it has nothing to do with what you did or did not do at the opening etc, I'm sure it's just as it needed to be. It's the second-hand feedback, via email no less. Some people nearly always means me. It's also slightly passive-aggressive. I try not to take on other people's anxieties about open space - of which there seems to be a lot around - and simply get on with it. Cheers Viv Viv McWaters vivmcwaters.com.au creativefacilitation.com Australia +61 417 135 406 UK +44 79 3733 7935 Bringing meetings to life. Connecting people and ideas. -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com mailto:har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush http://twitter.com/hajush ___ 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
