We are calling into being our collective soul so that our
many-storied world can find its way and each and everyone one of us
has our roles to play in it.
Another perspective is that we are all together creating our collective soul
playing the roles we all have. Whether we are aware or not, whether we feel
accepted or not, we all have a role and are playing here and now....
The challenge is... so what?.... then, where to go?
This is the question we ask when we open the space. I see this as an inquiry
rather then a confirmation of our roles.
Funda
Ralph Copleman <rcople...@comcast.net> wrote:
1. Peggy Holman wrote...
We are calling into being our collective soul so that our
many-storied world can find its way and each and everyone one of us
has our roles to play in it.
I like this. For a long time now, open space has seemed to me the closest we
have to evolution as a meeting format.
2. Susan Colemans story of the Kurds in New York did include me as one of the
holders of the space for the final two days of Susans five-day event. I want
to add two facts not mentioned in the version of the story Peggy reproduced on
this list.
First, most of the participants spoke no English, and neither Susan nor I
speak Kurdish or Arabic. We had a very helpful translator. He helped us
produce the necessary flip chart pages (in both languages), etc. and was
obviously crucial. One effect of the language barrier was that Susan and I
sat through evening news and morning announcements with few clues as to what
folks were saying. We smiled a lot.
Susan is more than a little amazing. Consider this: at the time we did the
event, Susan had never been in open space and had never even seen open space.
She gets my all-time award for most courageous consultant. There was a lot on
the line for her personally, for Columbia, and others. I had nothing to lose;
I knew what role I was playing and what I had to do, but Susan was in an open
space within an open space that was hers alone to occupy. Picture us sitting
there together that first day, with an empty open space circle. She kept
asking, This is okay, right? And I kept on answering (because there was
nothing else one could say), Sure.
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