Hello.
I have been reading with interest the discussion about drop off in
numbers. I haven't facilitated any open spaces yet so I don't have any
thing to add from a facilitator point of view. However, I do remember an
experience I had as a participant. When I was in a training pr
Peg Holman wrote:
> I think intention has a great deal to do with this. When asking is
> tinged
> with accusation or expectation of an accounting, then it is quite
> inappropriate. When it is done from a place of loving curiosity, I
> have
> found it can open new territory to explore both for th
On the few occasions when I have witnessed a radical drop off in numbers at
the end (but never in a start-up situation) I have been rather more
impressed with the Spirit present than with the Spirit departed. And I
rather think it was a good learning experience for all those who stayed.
Typicall
n.
"Freedom shock" may be one reaction but there are many more I am sure.
Just some thoughts.
Barbar
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>From: Birgitt Bolton
>To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
>Subject: Re: Drop Off in Numbers
>Date: Fri, Dec 17, 1999, 8:46 PM
>
> I am interested in th
>Asking people why they chose not
> to come feels like making them accountable to the "asker" for their
actions - a
> contradiction of the law of two feet.
>
BJ,
I think intention has a great deal to do with this. When asking is tinged
with accusation or expectation of an accounting, then it is
rom: "Birgitt Bolton"
To:
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: Drop Off in Numbers
> I am interested in the new words that have entered our story of Open
Space.
> The words of "passion overload". It is a concept that I can't quite grasp.
> Seems
greatest gifts of
Spirit for us and with us. When we experience ever increasing amounts of
passion, love, joy, bliss, compassion...I see the angels dancing in glee.
So, I wonder if we have accepted just a little too easily this concept that
"passion overload" is why a drop off in numbers
that
> "passion overload" is why a drop off in numbers occurs. I think there are
> many and varied reasons, not least of which is that when adults are free to
> behave as adults, they go into freedom shock and face the fullness of being
> accountable for their learning,
At 10:10 AM 12/6/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I did a two day OS the week before last for a conference. Very powerful,
>with the group of 50 or so wanting to continue with OS for next year's
>events. However I too got a drop off (about 10).While I did'nt pose the
specific question I had overwhel
I think we have to be careful when we look at an open space event to keep
the basic law of two feet in mid.
A "drop off" may be for many reasons but it is clear that the individual
has made a choice of where they would rather be at that time.
Rejoice in the fact that those individuals were empowe
Hi all
I did a two day OS the week before last for a conference. Very powerful,
with the group of 50 or so wanting to continue with OS for next year's
events. However I too got a drop off (about 10).
While I did'nt pose the specific question I had overwhelming feedback
starting at the end of day
>Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 19:49:19 -0500
>To: a...@interlog.com
>From: Harrison Owen
>Subject: Re: Drop-off in numbers
>
>At 06:13 PM 12/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Ihad the opposite experience about six months ago. there were about ten
>>more at the closethan at the be
Ihad the opposite experience about six months ago. there were about ten
more at the closethan at the beginning. It was a conferenceso maybe that
influenced it. Anyone else have similiar experience.
Audrey Coward
To Peg and all,
I have also noticed some folks disappear before the closing circle. From
feedback, I have collected over the years, I think some or all of the
following circumstances may operate.
1. Some folks do not like open space for reasons they never make plain,
and they leave.
2. Some c
I was talking with a client yesterday who just did a series of open spaces
around the country. She noticed that at every session the number of people in
the closing circle was about half the number who were there when the OS began.
I, too, notice that this is almost always the case.
A couple
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