Re: Facilitation disasters - your stories please

2009-11-16 Thread Suzanne Daigle
Tonnie, Robyn, This, and what you have each written, is why I am so committed to Open Space. The emotions, the vulnerability, the sharing, the internal turmoil, the pain, the questions and *this* discussion is all part of the (our) story of Open Space...it's about life itself! I feel connected and

Re: Facilitation disasters - your stories please

2009-11-16 Thread Tonnie van der Zouwen
rv.boisestate.edu] Namens Suzanne Daigle Verzonden: maandag 16 november 2009 2:08 Aan: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Onderwerp: [SPAM]Re: [OSLIST] Facilitation disasters - your stories please Such wise words on a topic that has generated so much insight. I felt myself seeped in what has been de

Re: Facilitation disasters - your stories please

2009-11-16 Thread Allison & Jim Baensch
- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Allison & Jim Baensch Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 5:23 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: Facilitation disasters - your stories please Hi Robyn and all, I had a situation with some similariti

Re: Facilitation disasters - your stories please

2009-11-16 Thread Allison & Jim Baensch
Hi Robyn and all, I had a situation with some similarities to and some differences from yours a while ago, soon after I first moved into a small town. A community group asked me to facilitate a meeting, and their 2 main organisers met me a couple of times to make arrangements, at quite sho

Re: Facilitation disasters - your stories please

2009-11-16 Thread Suzanne Daigle
Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Harrison Owen Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:53:12 To: Subject: Re: Facilitation disasters - your stories please Absolutely Annamarie! It is all about choosing. A friend told me - never sell Open Space. It is like teaching a pig to sing

AW: Facilitation disasters - your stories please

2009-11-15 Thread Catherine Pfaehler
St. Alban-Vorstadt 15 CH - 4052 Basel +41-(0)61 - 272 64 32 c.pfaeh...@open-space-begleitung.ch www.open-space-begleitung.ch   -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Robyn Williams [mailto:p...@iinet.net.au] Gesendet: Sonntag, 15. November 2009 01:44 Betreff: Facilitation disasters - your stor

Facilitation disasters - your stories please

2009-11-15 Thread Gail West
A difficult situation for the facilitator of an open space event. A good learning experience for thinking through the important steps in the preparation stage. Anybody have any stories from Taiwan? Gail On Friday I was facilitating a 2 hour workshop primarily using Open Space principles as

Re: Facilitation disasters - your stories please

2009-11-15 Thread Harrison Owen
.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html> www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Annamarie Pluhar Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 7:13 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: Facilitation disasters - your

Re: Facilitation disasters - your stories please

2009-11-15 Thread Annamarie Pluhar
Such an interesting conversation that you have started Robyn. My own experience was (gulp!) 15 years ago. My life has taken twists and turns away from group facilitation - the fact that I'm on the list now has everything to do with a current contract/assignment. Before meeting the client -

Re: Facilitation disasters - your stories please

2009-11-15 Thread Harrison Owen
e.edu/archives/oslist.html> www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Allison & Jim Baensch Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 5:23 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: Facilitation disasters - your storie

Re: Facilitation disasters - your stories please

2009-11-15 Thread Harrison Owen
hives Visit: www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Raffi Aftandelian Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 11:30 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Facilitation disasters - your stories pl

Re: Facilitation disasters - your stories please

2009-11-15 Thread Michael M Pannwitz
Dear Robyn, thanks for telling your story! I also am interested in expanding options for situations like yours. In a similar situation I once tried to just stand there (Marvin and Sandra describe it in their book "Dont't Just Do Something, Stand There!)...first part was actually just to stand th

Facilitation disasters - your stories please

2009-11-15 Thread Raffi Aftandelian
robyn, thanks much for the story. harrison, i'm curious and just to clarify: is that something you make directly explicit to the client- like in the form of a verbal agreement or written contract: that you reserve the right to exercise the law of the two feet if the sponsor prevents you from le

Facilitation disasters - your stories please

2009-11-15 Thread Robyn Williams
Hi folks On Friday I was facilitating a 2 hour workshop primarily using Open Space principles as requested, and as I would have suggested anyway given the task in hand. My own 2 feet did the walking less than halfway through when the 'person in charge', who I'd not met before, interrupted the proc

Re: Facilitation disasters - your stories please

2009-11-15 Thread Harrison Owen
mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Robyn Williams Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 7:44 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Facilitation disasters - your stories please Hi folks On Friday I was facilitating a 2 hour workshop primarily using Open Space principles as requ