How does Open Space Technology help us experience harmony, wholeness? This may well be the most ineffable idea in today’s busy world. Life seems to present moments of such harmoniousness and we may notice them when they happen and then forget them. They don’t get highlighted as something possible on any dependable scale, so they get passed over, dismissed as a “nice” experience but most likely we don’t share them. However, the artists among us will capture them through their medium. We love the feelings this work gives us, this reminder of those numinous realities.
What happens in OST? What are those realities we experience more often than not while participating in a concentrated time around an invitation question, an urgency, a group of people sitting in circle, creating an agenda and sitting with questions, getting to deeper ones? I believe OST is micro of a macro reality that life’s organism ways provide for us in every moment. “Come to the circle, tell us your tale, you are not the only one who is hurting.” This phrase from a song written in the 80s by a friend, speaks of the power of OST. There is something so powerful about being reminded, you get to choose how and where and when you give your attention. It has been called an antidote to the world of hierarchical dominating meetings, work life and organizationally dead structures. So I say, I want to capture the ineffable, but how silly that is. And yet, we can point to shared experience, to knowledge that goes beyond words, to celebrate this most amazing, awe-generating process abiding in living structures, living “becoming” events that are *alivenmaking*. Let’s listen for the harmonies, for the moments of felt sensing our wholeness, our unity, and our differences at the same time. This is a “both and world,” not an “either/or” one. It takes work only in that we remember what we can easily forget with distractions and constant “busy-ness.” Notice when those moments of peacefulness enter into the “field” when we take a long breath and let it out fully, sitting with one another without needing to fix or change ourselves, or the other. What are your experiences of “fulfillment” of listening in to deep knowledge of being alive? One OST participant spoke of it as something one cannot talk about, but to experience it is to have lived, feeling aliveness and we want it more and more. Then we want others to have the experience so we try to talk about it. I say, “Come to the Circle, tell us your tale, you are not the only one who is hurting.” The storyteller tells his tales and we remember those times his stories happened in our lives, or we make sense of a story we have not understood about our tale. Then we begin again with a new story. Keep coming to the circle, telling us your tales, one and all. Blessings to all this week for great WOSONOS in DC. Song *Healing Circle* is by Julia Hickory 1984, Album Joyful Noise and Friends *Birdsong Morning* *Healing Circle* Come to the Circle Listen to our tales You will find you’re not the only one who’s hurting And the light may shine in This is where we begin The magic of our healing Alone in your room, you think you’re the only one And you’re wondering if your might be crazy So you lock all the pain and the shame deep inside And your skies are always dark and hazy But if you Come to the Circle Tell us your tales The light will shine in, This is where we begin The magic work of our healing. You are not unimportant, we need all the words And the melodies to harmonize The darker the shadows, the brighter the sun And your tears are the stars in our eyes. So won’t you Come to the Circle Tell us your tales And the light will shine in This is where we begin The magic work of our healing -- *Skye HIrst, PhD* *Autognomics* *Conversations in Radical WholeKnowing* *Just-in-Time Coaching and Consulting* jitcc.org Twitter @autognomics 207-691-3172 mobile *"There is no final fact." * Alfred North Whitehead *"Nature ever flows, stands never still. Motion or change is her mode of existence."* *- Ralph Waldo Emerson*
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