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Facilitation of Moving The Edge

Submitted by Finn Voldtofte on February 13, 2006 - 13:18.

Ideas, thoughts, suggestions etc. regarding hosting and facilitation of the gathering

 

 

Previously posted as topic introduction for this tread

Submitted by Finn Voldtofte on March 18, 2006 - 17:39.

Posted by Ria  as introduction for this tread, and now reposted here as comment - for the sake of clarification of the topic.

 

After the Salon I wrote some lines...

Open Space as/is a talking culture.

Bringing more senses into communicating:
using dance to become present in your body
using meditation to still your mind
doing rituals to relate with ancestors and other beings
walk the land to relate to the earth
use drawing as a deeper level of accessing wisdom

I hope we can integrate some of this in Moving the edge! A lot of collective intelligence and wisdom is still buried if we don't use these senses more...

Time Schedule

Submitted by Finn Voldtofte on March 17, 2006 - 09:46.

This is a suggestion of a time schedule, that could support the flow of our days. We will adjust it in the flow as we want to.

 7-8 morning meditation for those who wants to join

8-9 breakfast 

9 morning community meeting (starting the day together)

12-14 lunch break

17 what ever we do during the day we  gather for sharing learnings and insights

18-19 evening break - can be used for meditation, resting, blogging ....

19 dinner

open evening space, but probably early in the evening also a "hosting reflection meeting" for those who wants to join that 

From convening to hosting

Submitted by Finn Voldtofte on March 8, 2006 - 16:55.

I have had the idea so far, that as the participants in the gathering starts to show up in Fuglsø sunday evening, the convening team will then become a hosting team, making sure that everyone is welcomed, helped to settle in to the place, and maybe even feeling like "returning home to the company of friends".

I also envision that a least the start of the first mornings session will be a hosted session, that we in the hosting team have taken responsibility for planning. As I see it, that session is for each participant to orient one self into the field, clarifying what needs to be clarified (if anything at all), bringing one self present to the fullest possible at that time.

As for the process-"tools" I have no specific thoughts. Intentional use of silence, and weaving relational threads seems to me to be natural.

There is a delicate balance of staying committed to the hosting responsibility (towards our guests) on one hand, and allowing the emergent field amongst us to take over (as we all become holders of AND dancers in the field).  

Facilitation or not?

Submitted by Ria Baeck on March 8, 2006 - 14:05.

Before I planned to post here something about the facilitation of Moving the Edge, I was reading all the new postings on the site. Reading Lion's message, it changed what I planned to write here. I guess this is evolution-in-action.

In my planning's mind I had a whole list of practical things we need to have: name tags, markers, colour pens, paper in different seizes, tape, speakers to connect with my laptop, a beamer, a screen maybe ....

I could see a very evocative start, with a video about the evolutionary perspective (asking Tom what is the best he saw recently), a moving - dancing introduction to become fully present, an introductory circle with talking stick...

And what if we would just start in silence? With nobody facilitating and all facilitating? All ready to learn, to teach, to organise?

I hold this image of "collective leadership" for a long time... maybe it is the right time to let it happen... to step all together beyond the knowing... I'm sure we can do it.