Dear Karolina,
Thank you for your courage. Your visualization of a shoulder-shoulder
circle with each person feeling the collective power that backs them
up as they move into the world, brought the energy inside the WOSonOS
circle alive for me.
I really resonate with your wish to have "taken the chance for using
the collective we were for making a big something, a big action,
sending a lot of invitations to the world to enjoy and spread and have
fun and love and development and support the self-organisation..."
There is so much need.
Thank you for sharing.
Warm wishes from a cloudy day in Phoenix,
Christine
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On May 17, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Karolina Iwa wrote:
coming back home from the wosonos made me sad.
trying to figure out where it comes from
i realised there was something i was missing a lot in this meeting.
and i find it a pity i just realised it in the closing round and
could only verbalise it on the way back, but i take my chance and
still would like to share it with you here over the list.
i had this impression we all as a group / community during this
meeting
were mostly busy with topics related to the method
and to us in various roles and relationships with others while using
the method
and to our personal and organisational growth and development.
i had this visualisation of us standing in a circle, shoulder to
shoulder, facing inside,
feeling the power, the confusion, the energy, the movement. focused
on the centre and its content.
maybe feeling / sensing the world outside, but neither relating to
it a lot nor taking common actions in its direction.
there were so many people, so much energy and emotions
and i guess i just miss us turning our backs to the centre of the
circle,
turning our faces and fronts to the world outside,
feeling the energy behind our backs
and with it feeling empowered to take common action and send a
message to the world,
use the resources we have and see how we can use what we are blessed
to be experiencing and having.
if the collecting of issues or action planning was to happen again
i wish i had posted for example an idea for each of us
to offer an open space to the community we belong / relate to or are
connected with for free.
that we would create and share a gift.
share the energy, the spirit so often referred to with the ones who
need it but cannot afford it or don't know where to ask.
and i know many of us do it anyway, i am totally aware of that.
i just wish we had taken the chance for using the collective we were
for making a big something, a big action, sending a lot of
invitations to the world
to enjoy and spread and have fun and love and development and
support the self-organisation...
i am thinking as well of yaaris question in the closing round
if os is white and rich.
i wonder what to do to break the impression i share. what can i do?
i wonder how to invite people who cannot afford coming to wosonos
because they are missing resources.
as i work with european funds i came up with the idea of applying
for a grant which would co-fund the participation of people who
would come to the wosonos, but for whom the participation fee and
all related costs are an barrier in participating.
this is just a small idea,
but i would like to give with it a shot and try to support a tendency
and make os more inclusive and make us a more diverse and welcoming
group.
as i know more about european funds i could take care of
coordinating such a project
and try to get additional funds for the 2012 wosonos in london.
i am quite anxious of people misunderstanding my point,
and it takes quite some courage of me to write this email,
but i still want to share it.
with everybody who was and was not there and with everybody here.
karolina.
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