Dear fellow spacers…
It has been quit a while since I last connected. What a delight to do so. What a deep sense of gratitude to know one can come and go and come again and what a great thing to practice what we preach J Reading December postings with traveling reports and Tao and everyday roads moved me (not without difficulty) to come out of my over a year hibernation and repot some of the Open Space Technology travels here in Israel: 7 years of OST presence in Israel, over 70 people who participated in OST trainings and a first 3 day OS on OS Israel has taken place mid December 2006!. It felt as if the 31 people who showed up had needed a space for themselves, to meet with like minded people and be "off guard and off duty" for a while. For many it was hard to take 3 days off (as you know in Israel we fail to take a full two day weekend!) yet, with all the coming and going, as Avner had put it, a field of grace was present. A wonderful rotating team of 4 facilitators (I hope we will share the model in more detail soon): Shay, Hannah, Rotem and Daphnnah had done a graceful service going in and out from facilitating to participation in the group. Just to share some of the wonderful conversations: space was opened for 'Dreams and dreaming' for 'the sense of disappointment that often comes right after or coupled with the 'high' of opening space' for 'living the principles of OS as everyday practice' for 'opening space in the family' and more. Most of the time the common field, created on the lawns of Kibbutz Har-el on the Mountains of Jerusalem, was in a flow state, doted by people here and there, moving, not being able to tell are these butterflies or "real groups?" The space was reach with poetry and full of spirit. On day three Shosh, coupled by Menachem initiated a move: to work as an open space community of practitioners an to take upon our selves to open space locally and countywide for school teams, parents, youth, care givers, police etc for to open space for issues and opportunities in moving from sexual harassment prevention in schools" (temporary name) the intention is to form few dozens of simultaneous OST events in different places and by that help make a countywide shift. 10 out of the 19 people who attended at the time listed themselves for at least one OST process each with or without pay. It seams that at the age of 7 we are becoming an Israeli Net and "going to school" , so to speak. Bye for now Please make it a best year for you and all - a happy new year With much love Tova Averbuch Holon Tova Averbuch טובה אורבוך 34 Rabinovitz St. רחוב רבינוביץ 34 Holon 58672 חולון Israel 972-3-5523476 averb...@post.tau.ac.il * * ========================================================== 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