joelle, even I am not really inside the subjects discussed at that rome meeting, I need to say you that the sentence you wrote here - "where I thought we would go was not the place where we needed to be, and I had to decide how to create a space for what was needed" was present a lot of times during my life and now reading it said by a person that is so far from me (and that do no knows me) sounded more strong and has made me think about its concepts
it is not a bad thing, on the contrary, it is really interesting to be around persons that bring me good and strong thoughts making me forget - for some moments - the reality of the daily routine. lucy geão -------Mensagem original------- De: OSLIST Data: Thursday, June 26, 2003 16:38:56 Para: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Assunto: Re: Rome was one year ago - any news? In a message dated 6/26/03 12:01:02 PM, artsi...@mail.eunet.pt writes: << Polanyi once wrote (defining tacit knowledge) that "we know more that we can say". On myself and on the others I use to compare what one says and what one does (how one walks the talk). And I always think that what one does is more important then what one says he does. Sometimes the two things are completely different - even opposite. In some others, like in the case of ho, the doing just slightly clarifies (and slightly transforms) the saying. >> Artur-- In my 20+ years working as a facilitator (in Open Space and other forms), there have been a number of times when I have realized, on the last morning of a meeting, that where I thought we would go was not the place where we needed to be, and I had to decide how to create a space for what was needed. I think that the rule book can only take us so far, and then we must be responsive to the group and to our own intuition. I also know that in teaching novices, we always "know more than we can say." The handbook must cover the basics, but it cannot cover every possible situation. The group in Rome was doing difficult and painful work--maybe far more painful than they had anticipated. So Harrison's intervention, asking them to choose again whether they wished to continue this difficult work, felt appropriate to me. My two cents' worth-- Joelle * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html . * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
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