Hi Jonathan, I´m very happy to have noticed and read you message on the list. Sometimes I feel a bit overwhelmed and leave some messages unread...
I think that all the light you perceived (and I share your view, thanks so much for your description) during WOSonOs is inside you. I remember meeting you first time during the wonderful reception and all during these days till Sunday and you´ve been for me an example of openness, kindness and awareness during those days. I´m sure I´ll see you one day, Jonathan, a big hug in the meanwhile! @Eleder_BuM <http://twitter.com/Eleder_BuM> pd: now I´m about to start writing the rport on the so special session on "Open Space without chairs", woooow! 2012/10/17 Jonathan Coe <coe...@hotmail.com> > Hello new OS friends! > > I wanted to share with you my experience of my first ever OS event in > sunny Stoke Newington. Three weeks ago I had never heard of OS and > suddenly there I was at the World conference! > > I had a blast! It was really such an enlivening space that opened up. I > felt very connected to people and found an amazing sense of presence and > awareness that made the whole thing really special. And so many amazing > people! Conferences usually involve a lot of talking, accompanied by a > lot of inner dialogue critiquing the talkers... At WOSonOS there was > talking also, and there was a lot more listening, palpable listening. I > recall one person saying that he usually talked a lot and that there he li > stened more, and felt heard more. My guess is that his experience was not > unique. > > I want to pay tribute to Phelim and his team for such a great production, > really great, and I loved the opening night sketch and performances. I am > so grateful to you for who you are and what you bring. > > And to everyone I had the real pleasure of being in conversation with: I > felt very connected to you and felt like this was something really > special for the world. I am working on using OS for some global > conversations, so, watch this space... > > My session, on 'being in the moment' - we were able to have an experienceof > being in the moment, and that resulted in no-one taking notes... So > below are my own retrospective notes. If anyone who was there cares to add > anything, please do. > > I was so moved and touched and inspired by everyone. I was very moved at > the closing session and had tears in my eyes as we said our farewells. > > I never met any of you before, but I feel like I love you. > > Jonathan > > > * > * > > The question in my mind for this session was 'I wonder if the group that > comes together for this session can have a collective experience of being > in the moment?'. > > Interestingly the session was always full with between 6 and 10 people > present, and the end group was entirely different from the beginning group. > I wondered how much leaving a session might be connected with a belief that > we know about what is going to happen in that session. > > People shared their experiences of being in the moment, and more often, > not being in the moment. One person shared that for her an experience of > being out of the moment happened when some people left the group and her > thoughts became tied up with ideas that their departure had something to do > with her. A common reaction. > > I shared an experience of being absolutely present to everything around me > on a bus journey I had had recently. The people, the traffic, the > buildings, the noise. I had experienced them all as incredibly vibrant and > alive. I was present to their vitality and noticed the way the light fell > on it all, the way that everything is so 3D. My way of being was that I > accepted whatever happened, noise, delays and so on, I resisted nothing. I > had become aware that I had beliefs about bus journeys, like 'I know bus > journeys, I've done them before. I know this area, I've seen it before'. I > gave up all my beliefs, which were essentially about an idea that I somehow > knew what was in the future. A space opened up and I realised that *I had > no idea what was in the future*. That no-one ever has any completely > reliable idea what is in the future. And the space that opened up was one > of total openness, where actual experience could happen. Not an idea about > experience or an interpretation of it, but experience itself. I wondered > 'Could this bus journey occur to me in a new way?'. And it did. Some places > we went through occurred as though they were film sets - the light appeared > as though carefully organised and controlled to give the best possible > vision of the scene in front of me. I have very good recall of this > journey, and this makes me wonder how much poor memory is associated with > an avoidance of living fully. So this has become a way of being which I > access every day now. And one which is available to anyone. > > There was a sharing of an experience of arriving at work and having no > memory of driving to get there. The person had been thinking for the whole > journey about the working day ahead. Was there any way that this person > could have been really present during the journey? The question arose from > this 'How many moments do we miss each day?' > > One person shared that he felt he missed 80%, and that he was continually > thinking about the future. The question arose 'How would things be for you > if all that thinking wasn't there any more?'. > > A few moments of silence. > > I had a split second of feeling 'Oh no, they're supposed to talk!' and > quickly came back to the moment and felt very present and aware of each > person who was with me. > > Someone said "That was a really nice silence". And it was; because we, > enough of us, were able just to be with each other, in the moment. > > When the formal end point arrived, I noted it. People asked how it had > been for me and we then carried on talking for another half an hour. > > No-one took notes, so this is written up after the fact. > > The next day participants approached me and shared that they had their own > experiences of being in the moment, since the session, one person on a bus > journey, the other in a restaurant. > > > ------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > >
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