Kàri, reading this really make me want to be able to have conversations with your and learn more from your experiences.
All the best Hege 18. apr. 2013 kl. 18:32 skrev Skye Hirst <sk...@autognomics.org>: > THank you so much for this most beautiful mix of mythology, metaphor and > experience to point to a most complex and elegant process. Also with love, > Skye from Maine US > > Skye Hirst > sk...@autognomics.org > lifeworks beautifully knowing itself > > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Kári Gunnarsson <kari.gunnars...@simnet.is> > wrote: > Last week has been wonderful for my start-up Open Space consultation > businesses. With new clients that have ambition to get out of the way for > self-organization to take place. > > A small private school and kindergarten system invited the leadership and > key-employees of the 17 institutions to discuss how we can prepare for the > future now that the first generation of visionaries will no longer be as > active in the organization. We had two-day open space filled with learning > and longing. Extremely positive comments from participants, two of my > favorite were: > 1. Why did we not meet like this many years ago? > 2. We need to meet like this for a full uninterrupted week. > > The sponsors are seeing the grief process at work within the leadership of > the institutions and I told them a wonderful story of Icelandic myth. It is a > story about a man named 'Fúsi', he finds himself at crossroads during > midnight at the changing of times. He knew that the elves travel the roads at > these times and will offer their gifts to anyone sitting at the crossroad. > But one should be careful accept any one gift from the elves or one would go > mad. Many elves came and offer him gifts of gold and pleasure and laid them > at his feet. And as the night grew, he became hungry. One elven maiden came > with a dish full of eatables, a dish called "Flot" and offered to him, he > said to the maiden, "Sjaldan hef ég flotinu neitað" (Rarely have I 'been a' > "Flot" naysayer), and he became mad from the day he ate from that dish, then > I add that we should not jump to conclusions with easy solutions and let the > emerging open space take its place, for otherwise we rob ourselves from the > leadership development that is necessary for a healthy organization. > > > My little story on grief is a follows. It goes like a berthing exercise, > first there is something that happened, we lose our breath and freeze in out > track. It is good stop if there is danger, but we can't do much without > breath. Anger helps us recapture our breath and move away from danger. Anger > lets us draw our breath and drop whatever we are doing so that we can react > promptly. Now that we are out of anger and other tasks like feeding the > children come to the agenda, then the Denial is like gold. Now as we move in > our daily tasks the memories of what happened come to us and we negotiate > them into our personal and organizational life stories. As our stories have > changed so have our prerequisites for our hopes and plans, it can be a > painful process to let go and disconnect from them, but as we do this, we > find new space open up in our lives. The methodology of Open Space draws its > name from this stage of the grieving process. When here, it is of value to > learn from the Story of Fúsi and the elves, and not fill up the space with > old ideas, but to let the gifts of the open space unfold. For the next stage > holds the promise of a new hope, a new power, a vision for the future. a > common direction that is essential for effective strategic planning. > > With love from Iceland > Kári Gunnarsson > k...@openspace.is > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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