So often I let group mails slip by me once I am back in the fast flow
of life back home. But here I am replying to you all, and just
reaching out with brief contact. This says a lot about the lasting
effect of our meeting. Thank you
Amerie x
On 18 Oct 2012, at 10:59, Eleder_BuM wrote:
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
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 listened 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
experience of 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.
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