Thanks, Michael, for your response! I wish I had caught the expats stomping out on film (of course, they would never have allowed me, I imagine, to take their picture; it sure would be excellent for "training" purposes...
Ludmila and I were the sponsors and organizers (lots of work!). Thank you for the Making money facilitating OST events idea. A great one. i think we made it only one day because I wasn't sure that people unfamiliar with OST would be ready straight off to do 2 days, but I'll think about that for the future. As for building a resonant field, frankly I am not sure I can explain it, because I am only beginning to understand this. That phrase comes from my Genuine Contact Program training as a result of which Birgitt Williams recommended that we read Stalking the Wild Pendulum: the mechanics of consciousness (by Itzhak Bentof) to develop a better understanding of the science of OST. It has been slow reading. Science was never a favor subject, even if the author tries to make it accessible. I imagine a fair number of folks onlist are familiar with the book, and at a later point I had the intention of posing questions about the book to the list. I quite simply don't understand some things in it. One of the thoughts I have about OST from the little I have read is connected with the following notion from the book: When you use a super-microscope on matter you find that at the micro-level there is in fact no such thing as "matter", rather all you have is a field of energy, lots of space. I think most ways of working with groups have the assumption that there really is something, that there really is something called content (a technique, a method, etc.-- a form of matter). In fact, there isn't, and the more we get into that method or technique, the more we are fooling ourselves. OST says, "listen there is no content, so let's get to building that field of energy, potentially a conscious field; let's build the "matter" (which doesn't exist anyway) ourselves. I think when people stomp out of an OST, this may be partly because the thought that "there is no there there" (as Gertrude Stein said of one of my old semi-hometowns) makes them shit bricks. Too much. As for building the resonant energy field with the participants, this is a leftover from a thread on another list about OST. It's exciting to make this slow shift in my facilitator development from the attitude of "Ok, does this OST stuff really work?" to "Ok, now how do I do this madness well?" And I am slowly, oh so slowly coming to learn a very important lesson of taking the ego out of the picture. Another way of saying creating a resonant energy field is simply opening the space. The question-- i imagine it's an old one-- is *who* really opens the space? The facilitator? The participants? The faciltiator and particpants together? Spirit? I know the thought is ill-formed, maybe someone can flesh out it, pick at it, don't know. Warmly, Raffi _________ > "Pannwitz, Michael M" <mmpa...@boscop.de> > Dear Raffi, > I would have loved to see those expats stomp out, > especially at the moment when you talked about the Law. > Who was the sponsor of the event? > One thing that crossed my mind was a variation on the theme > something like > "Making money facilitating os-events". > Or > "Making a living facilitating os-events". > Why only one day? > What do you mean by "building a resonant energy field with the > participants"? > What kind of relation is that between you and the participants? > > I did read the special issue of JABS. > (you asked how I got it in the mail to me, well I just ordered it via > the Internet) > There was something about os in the article by Susanne Weber who has > been researching the spread of LGIs in Germany. > But no article explicitly about os. > I think that many of my OD colleagues are scared of os, > and maybe the folks at JABS are, too. It defies much of the stuff > that is accepted in the OD world (which was my world, too, for many > years), > such as notions implicit in concepts such as "change management". > And then it is not a reliable "tool", you can never tell what will > happen when used. > > One day soon, spring will break out in Moscow > its arriving in force in Berlin > mmp -- Raffi mailto:ra...@bk.ru * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist