[matilda] Re: Facilitation

[farmerylee at onetel.com]

I thought the idea of a facilitator was just to co-ordinate the meeting 
and keep
some vague notion of control? As consensus for any decision has to be achieved
by the whole group does it really matter what the individual facilitator's
views are? I would think anyone with basic chairman-like skills should be able
to fulfil the role adequately, whether part of the group of not.

This leads me onto another question - at what point does someone become a
'member?' The very nature of the collective makes this very hard to determine.

These comments are just food-for-thought and are not aimed at anyone. Reading
between the lines of the MATILDA lists there seems to be a lot of paranoia
floating around!

Lee

Quoting R&A <robin_amparo at tiscali.co.uk>:

> "By the way the second matilda meeting we had was facilitated by someone
>> from outside the group so it is not all that unusual"
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> Only the second meeting. BTW the point of having external facilitators
> or not is quite important; consensus should be reached, imho. Are a
> facilitator's own political ideas relevant or not? Guess they are. Could
> we accept as facilitator, say, someone who opposes immigrants and
> immigration? Someone who opposes self-defence or the creation of the g8
>   legal support group, on the grounds of non-violence being "an absolute
> priority"? Or say, someone who wants everyone else to follow given
> guidelines for legal demos? Shouldn't we watch out for "the vertical
> hidden within the horizontal"?
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> cuthbert at riseup.net wrote:
>> By the way the second matilda meeting we had was facilitated by 
>> someone from outside the group so it is not all that unusual.  Plus 
>> jason is a skilled faciliator, although he hasnt been involved in 
>> matilda for as long as others he is quite well known and think we 
>> should be happy to have him in the group.
>>
>> from cuthbert
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>>> Why odd? Look at:
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>>> "A BLUEPRINT FOR PUTTING ON EVENTS AT MATILDA
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>>> Note: a 'matilda person' is someone involved in the collective 
>>> who's been to a decent number of meetings and is familiar to 
>>> everyone else in the collective."
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>>> mind you, nothing personal against Jase or Jason, since this 
>>> agreement was made before.
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>>> R&A
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