Throw a pebble in the soup!
Nynke May 7th, 2007
Sweet Medicine Wheel
0-9 law
for large Open Space events
We are likely putting on an Open Space event in february 2008 for 300-500 people, a big un, compared to what we have done sofar. The below steps describe our natural conference choreography, meaning, that is what is likely to happen if meteors and things like that do not interfere with our intent. It is simply how we do things, undone from all sorts of manifestation details that always change anyway when making Stone Soup. Just some obvious observables from our experience sofar with making Stone Soup. Normally this all goes without saying.
However, for large OS meetings, like with 300-500 participants (or more), it may add to the richness of the OS event to consciously address each of these steps with the facilitation team.
| Female energy | Female and male energy | Male energy | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. The decision to organise an Open Space event (make stone soup) for participatory decision-making, and paying attention to what it will take to put one on, is the focus step. How original to see its activation potential! | 2. Gathering the necessary parts party works with substance. Get yourself a real stone soup chef. | 3. The form is then locked into space by adding ingredients like contracts, commitments and resources. | 4. Putting more wood on the fire under the kettle, we determine a theme, locus of authority, boundaries, location, catering — perhaps using a teaspoon of playful appreciative inquiry. | 5. Spread the word, rumor it! We’re gonna have stone soup! These whiffs of it make people understand something really good is about to happen … | 6. Correcting the flavoring, we imagine tunings for excellence. Make posters and banners. Turn on music. Make it nice! Now it really, really smells excellent! | 7. Freedom: Bridging by thought not what it seems? No snowflake, stone soup or OS event is ever the same. Nothing is ever the same. Be prepared to be Surprised! |
| 8. Starting in a Circle, the recipe pattern is given to participants by the Four Principles. As facilitators we merely have the honor of, as authentically and invisibly as possible, to be holding the space open for … participants together creating the matrix of what is to happen and what issues will be discussed whenwhere during this open space event. All ingredients are contributed by participants for a wonderful Stone Soup! | ||||||
| 9. Chaos and creativity in a self-organising universe! We are in the actual open space event, with nature all around us, surfing chaos, discussing topics in breakout spaces, making connections, participating in decision-making, raising our awarenesses, finding new focus on attention, informing our selves, cross training and gaining, resolving issues, butterflying outside and bumblebeeing inside, sinking stars into minds, connecting everything, the whole dynamical matrix, the stone soup is actually cooking and being eaten in the Now! | ||||||
| 10. Completion with after dinner dinner, closure in Circle, and Books of Proceedings. | ||||||
Shooting the arrow
1 (artistic originality) + 7 (connection to everything)
2 (individuating power) + 6 (general knowledge)
3 (relationships to others) + 5 (condition and appearance)
4 (will) + 4 (will) (Four principles, changing time, 4D)
What’s in the soup we eat?
7 (unconscious (dreamtime, 5D) and conscious mind (within time, 3D)) + 10 (collective unconscious (time cell activation, 7D) and collective consciousness (timing for manifesting dreams instantaneously, 6D))
Wake up at the
IAF Benelux 2007 conference and the Agile Open conference!
When not facilitating, I will be butterflying time connections outside
0 9 law, cycles, light arrow, medicine wheel, open space, self organising universes, spirals
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