[OSList] Off topic - a bit
Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) ___ 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
Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22
Heres the direct link to Anne's paper about Spirited Work the open space learning community. Thanks Anne! http://collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/stadler_reflections.htm Jeff Original message From: Harrison Owen via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Date:09/29/2014 2:10 PM (GMT-08:00) To: 'Anne Stadler' anne.m.s...@gmail.com,'World wide Open Space Technology email list' oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 Anne – How wonderful to “see” you here. Spirited Work was a great experience and experiment. We all learned, with many thanks to yourself! Harrison Winter Address 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-2093 Summer Address 189 Beaucaire Ave. Camden, ME 04843 207-763-3261 Websites www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: OSList [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Anne Stadler via OSList Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 10:37 PM To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org; oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 My observation: authority in OS soon rests with those who show presence as defined by Otto Scharmer et al. You can see this appear particularly in multi day OS sessions or when you use OS as a means of organizational governance as we did in Spirited Work (see my writeup in CollectiveWisdomInitiative.org about Spirited Work, an experimental OS learning community of practice.) When people show up, listen deeply and take responsibility for selves and the whole, authority emerges. (My version of Law of Two Feet supports that: take responsibility for what you care about, use your two feet to move in and out of situations accordingly.) Thanks Daniel for the interesting question. Kind regards! Anne stadler Your Self Occupy 100% A world that works for ALL is a world of love made visible Phone: 206-459-0227 Skype: anne.m.stadler Www.CompassionateSeattle.org www.CharterforCompassion.org www.ProtecttheSacred.org On Sep 28, 2014, at 4:57 PM, via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Send OSList mailing list submissions to oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org You can reach the person managing the list at oslist-ow...@lists.openspacetech.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of OSList digest... Today's Topics: 1. wosonos2015 (Raffi Aftandelian via OSList) 2. Re: Authority Distribution in Open Space (Daniel Mezick via OSList) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 19:14:19 -0700 From: Raffi Aftandelian via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To: OSlist oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: [OSList] wosonos2015 Message-ID: 1411870459.93148.yahoomail...@web140803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 ditto what chris said. as a co-org'r of a previous wosonos (in another slavic country) happy to share my experience- the good, the differently good, and the quite differently good- aspects of organizing such an event. laramtsa, raffi ** I am the culturally White middle class American taxpayer, up to my chin in hypocrisy, double standards, a sense of entitlement, and choking on overconsumption, blissfully in denial about how 60% of my federal income taxes go to a military that sustains genocide and ecocide the world over ...all in the name of democracy, freedom, and happiness for all -- a riff off of Thic Nhat Hanh's Please Call Me By My True Names -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140927/66f1e2f4/attachment.html -- Message: 2 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 08:37:12 -0400 From: Daniel Mezick via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] Authority Distribution in Open Space Message-ID: 542800f8.9070...@newtechusa.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; Format=flowed Hi Harold, You say: /..I struggle to translate is the concept of coercion and authority from the vantage of it's all open space. Can we really be coerced? How are we all already opting in to empower the authorities?/ // /...Could we just be volunteering for the victim part of our stories?/ // /...I have some thoughts about this, but I wonder what you would say to such a challenge to the relevance of authority in OST?/ Hmmm...interesting questions for
Re: [OSList] Off topic - a bit
I say, this is open space, and here we have a topic on the wall. I bring my passion to the wall and take responsibility of my own experience and participation in the topics. So I share what I found in my internal dialogue while English is only my 3rd language. 1. I ask google: https://www.google.is/search?q=define+lonely * sad because one has no friends or company. - antonyms:popular * without companions; solitary. - antonyms:sociable * (of a place) unfrequented and remote. - antonyms:populous, crowded 2. I ask opposite-dictionary http://www.opposite-dictionary.com/ * antonyms: Accompanied 3. And I ask my gut * antonyms: happy, content, frolicsome, patience, playful, gay, light-hearted, high-spirited... *-* and now I find the connection to open space as the keyword high-spirited connects to writings abut open space. For opening the space with a proper topic will open up space for people to feel high-spirited and energized instead of lonely. *I like to propose a new topic, is it always possible to open up space for the lonely to find their passion? * This topic touches upon me now for the news article I was just reading before opening my mail was about how hate-groups hiding behind religion use the lure of purpose to recruit the lonely and afraid people. (the example in the local article used heathendom and white-supremacy hate-groups). On 30 September 2014 10:54, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) ___ 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 -- Kári Gunnarsson kari.gunnars...@simnet.is (+354) 864 5189 ___ 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] Lonely
Annamarie, Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today. I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus.com. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own): * populated * *sociable* * befriended * *close* * frequented * inhabited * *loved* * unlonely Warm Regards, Harold On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote: Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) ___ 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 -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com mailto:har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush http://twitter.com/hajush ___ 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
Re: [OSList] Lonely
And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely: Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. John On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Annamarie, Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today. I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus.com. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own): * populated * sociable * befriended * close * frequented * inhabited * loved * unlonely Warm Regards, Harold On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote: Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) ___ 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 -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush ___ 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] A Virtual OST Success Story
As some of you know, I've been at this for a couple of years now. Today, working on behalf of the Charter for Compassion International http://charterforcompassion.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u= 110391qid=5124428 , I was finally able to host a MaestroConference-based call that I felt truly lived up to the potential for Open Space in virtual form (in quotes since I know some of you purists might dispute that this really was OST!). Of course, it wasn't like being together in person for a day or two. Indeed, there was only one round of live small group conversation. But the combination of an online space that was opened on 9/22 using the hackpad platform and a 90 minute call eight days later using MaestroConference's newest social webinar beta really worked. Here are some highlights of the process (you can also view notes and more here on hackpad http://www.bit.ly/cfc093014 ): . We had 43 participants on the call for at least some of the 90 minutes, mostly from the US, but also including several from overseas. . Six topics were initiated by participants . In addition to the topic breakouts, there was a meet and greet session for just hanging out and connecting. This also served as a place to welcome late-comers to the call. As a result, the latter were easily integrated and able to join the conversations of their choosing . The topic conversations lasted a little more than 40 minutes . We ended with a full group popcorn-style harvest and some announcements . A number of participants attended a debrief after the official end of the call . A few participants also stayed on the line overtime to continue their topic conversations MC's new social webinar worked beautifully, allowing participants to do the following: . Exercise the law of two feet (really!) . See who was in their breakouts (including a thumbnail and contact info, if provided) . See who was talking or had their hands up Using hackpad, we were able to do the following: . Open the marketplace in advance, in order to both save time on the call and allow for some online discussion to get going. Five out of the six topics were initiated in advance. . Provide an index of topics and the room numbers for each (so that participants could move themselves to the right room) . Take collaborative notes during breakouts, with a separate pad for each one (note that social webinar now also provides shared document functionality for each breakout room, if desired) . Continue sharing notes and reflections once the call had ended (this is still ongoing) . Make detailed introductions before, during and after the call . Compile a shared listing of resources . Make announcements and requests It was also possible for participants to engage fully via their phones only (including moving between sessions) without using either hackpad or social webinar. This was important, as not everyone was able to be at a computer, and some who were at one had trouble using the online tools. Not everything was perfect, of course, and there were some lessons learned. The biggest challenge was that, despite many emails and online explanations in advance, some people were confused by the three ways to engage (phone, hackpad and social webinar) or had trouble accessing one or more of these elements. The vast majority, however, were either able to use these tools or to have a valuable and satisfying conversation without them. I expect that there will be future iterations planned on behalf of the Charter for Compassion, and I will promote them to this listserv now that I feel comfortable handling larger groups! MaestroConference is also very interested in promoting a series of large group conversations that could change the world. Perhaps there are some folks here who might want to collaborate with me in convening one? They plan for their platform to be able to manage calls in this way with over a thousand people in the near future. The thought of being able to regularly engage people at that scale in this way is pretty exciting! Peace, Ben Ben Roberts The Conversation Collaborative http://www.conversationcollaborative.com/ www. ConversationCollaborative.com (203) 426-1039 Skype: benjamin_j_roberts G+: benroberts@gmail.com tagxedo 1 ___ 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
Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 25
want to call an OSonOS - I have named just two. Ways any of us can host a wonderful learning and community gathering such as this. There are always ways to decide to want to host this particular thing called WOSonOS in future years. There are always ways for any of us to support these actions, these invitations, these teams. So nothing is limiting, everything is possible, and I offer my energies and enthusiasm in support to say CONGRATULATIONS POLISH TEAM !!! Lisa also known as Access Queen On Sep 24, 2014, at 7:04 AM, openspacedk1 openspace...@webhotel18.webhosting.dk wrote: Dear Thomas, Could not agree more. I believe our tradition to trust the community present by the end of any WOSONOS to decide, is a good and prescious one. And in line with the notion passion and responsability I thank our Polish collegues for their invitation, and look forward to a great WOSONOS 2015 in the beautiful city of Krakow. Gerard Open Space Institute Denmark ___ 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 -- *Gail West, ICA* *3F, No. 12, Lane 5, Tien Mou W RdTaipei, Taiwan 111Ph) 8862) 2871-3150* email) icat...@gmail.com Skype) gwestica www.icatw.com -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/1b42faf0/attachment.html -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 06:54:03 -0400 From: Annamarie Pluhar via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To: OSList@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: [OSList] Off topic - a bit Message-ID: 7e48f808-78e0-4a23-b990-06623bcfe...@pluharconsulting.com Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) -- Message: 3 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:36:05 -0700 From: Jeff Aitken via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To: World wide Open Space Technology email list oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 Message-ID: b1hjxic908ilm7pw6a0mc8s0.1412087765...@email.android.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Heres the direct link to Anne's paper about Spirited Work the open space learning community. Thanks Anne! http://collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/stadler_reflections.htm Jeff Original message From: Harrison Owen via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Date:09/29/2014 2:10 PM (GMT-08:00) To: 'Anne Stadler' anne.m.s...@gmail.com,'World wide Open Space Technology email list' oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 Anne ? How wonderful to ?see? you here. Spirited Work was a great experience and experiment. We all learned, with many thanks to yourself! ? Harrison ? Winter Address 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-2093 ? Summer Address 189 Beaucaire Ave. Camden, ME 04843 207-763-3261 ? Websites www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org ? From: OSList [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Anne Stadler via OSList Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 10:37 PM To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org; oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 ? My observation: authority in OS soon rests with those who show presence as defined by Otto Scharmer et al. You can see this appear particularly in multi day OS sessions or when you use OS as a means of organizational governance as we did in Spirited Work (see my writeup in CollectiveWisdomInitiative.org about Spirited Work, an experimental OS learning community of practice
Re: [OSList] Lonely
OMG! I wanted to keep quiet until everyone had a chance to offer their thoughts, (natural facilitator stance) but I must say that these thoughts and offerings are RICH.! Thank you all most heart-feltily/fully. The question remains about opposites to the word lonely.. Stephane (I can't find the keyboard for the accent) ... do your offered words have feeling associated with them? Like lonely does? Aside from Stephane's response, I'm interested in that we have Celtic, African, and American Indian but not Indo-European... Comments? Merci! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) On 30 Sep 2014, at 19:54, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Chris - thanks for the tie back to Cynefin! It does sound like a profound opposite of lonely, 'your places of multiple belongings'. Your explanation of Cynefin stimulated my recollection of the meaning of another possible opposite of lonely, the word Ubuntu, from the African Ngali Bantu language meaning 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. On 9/30/14 5:29 PM, Chris Corrigan wrote: Although I don't speak Welsh, one word I find very compelling is Cynefin pronounced kuh-NIV-en. I know the word because it's the name of of complexity framework. But it also means your places of multiple belonging. That refers to the fact that all of us feel many different homes and many different places where we feel connected in the world in English there's no word that can capture this sense of multiple belonging but I do like the idea that such a sentiment need to name. In Anishnabemowin which is the language of Ojibway and related peoples of North America, the word indinewmaganik means all my relations but is actually better translated as I belong to everything. That's as good an opposite of lonely as I can think of. -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Harvest Moon Consultants Facilitation, Open Space Technology and process design Check www.chriscorrigan.com http://www.chriscorrigan.com for upcoming workshops, blog posts and free resources. On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:19 PM, John Watkins via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely: Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. John On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Annamarie, Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today. I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus.com http://www.thesaurus.com/. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own): * populated * *sociable* * befriended * *close* * frequented * inhabited * *loved* * unlonely Warm Regards, Harold On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote: Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) ___ 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 -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com mailto:har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com http://shinsato.com/ twitter: @hajush http://twitter.com/hajush ___ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org mailto: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 mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org mailto:oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org --
Re: [OSList] Lonely
And of course in the Vedic tradition, where we sing the Sanskrit 'so hum' or 'sat nam' mantra together, when chanted with intention it's like the universal sound of OM...joint mind and heart, personal and transpersonal and that practice seems to seal the sense of connection - a practice aka - something that helps us experience and embrace the the opposite of loneliness This wisdom that arises from our bodies, this primordial delight of eternal life in connection with others that we experience in Open Space is also found in creative practices of sound and movement when we help each other to remember who we really are As a Quaker child in NY, all we did was to sit, and sit more, then when we sat together, the bizarre awareness of not being separate landed in us and then people branched out, creating new things Maybe Because they did not feel lonely Creativity arose from that connection in stillness, belonging and silent, until something moved in us to share... And now, the energy streams forth, just like Indras net...shimmering and opening toward a new so hum Allie Middleton from the iPad iPhone 518.669.9923 Skype - alliemiddleton Create it! ...an extra miracle, extra and ordinary: the unthinkable can be thought On Sep 30, 2014, at 21:04, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: OMG! I wanted to keep quiet until everyone had a chance to offer their thoughts, (natural facilitator stance) but I must say that these thoughts and offerings are RICH.! Thank you all most heart-feltily/fully. The question remains about opposites to the word lonely.. Stephane (I can't find the keyboard for the accent) ... do your offered words have feeling associated with them? Like lonely does? Aside from Stephane's response, I'm interested in that we have Celtic, African, and American Indian but not Indo-European... Comments? Merci! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) On 30 Sep 2014, at 19:54, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Chris - thanks for the tie back to Cynefin! It does sound like a profound opposite of lonely, 'your places of multiple belongings'. Your explanation of Cynefin stimulated my recollection of the meaning of another possible opposite of lonely, the word Ubuntu, from the African Ngali Bantu language meaning 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. On 9/30/14 5:29 PM, Chris Corrigan wrote: Although I don't speak Welsh, one word I find very compelling is Cynefin pronounced kuh-NIV-en. I know the word because it's the name of of complexity framework. But it also means your places of multiple belonging. That refers to the fact that all of us feel many different homes and many different places where we feel connected in the world in English there's no word that can capture this sense of multiple belonging but I do like the idea that such a sentiment need to name. In Anishnabemowin which is the language of Ojibway and related peoples of North America, the word indinewmaganik means all my relations but is actually better translated as I belong to everything. That's as good an opposite of lonely as I can think of. -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Harvest Moon Consultants Facilitation, Open Space Technology and process design Check www.chriscorrigan.com http://www.chriscorrigan.com for upcoming workshops, blog posts and free resources. On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:19 PM, John Watkins via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely: Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. John On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Annamarie, Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today. I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus.com http://www.thesaurus.com/. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own): * populated * *sociable* * befriended * *close* * frequented * inhabited * *loved* * unlonely Warm Regards, Harold On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote: Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel
[OSList] Off topic - a bit
Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) ___ 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
Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22
Heres the direct link to Anne's paper about Spirited Work the open space learning community. Thanks Anne! http://collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/stadler_reflections.htm Jeff Original message From: Harrison Owen via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Date:09/29/2014 2:10 PM (GMT-08:00) To: 'Anne Stadler' anne.m.s...@gmail.com,'World wide Open Space Technology email list' oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 Anne – How wonderful to “see” you here. Spirited Work was a great experience and experiment. We all learned, with many thanks to yourself! Harrison Winter Address 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-2093 Summer Address 189 Beaucaire Ave. Camden, ME 04843 207-763-3261 Websites www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: OSList [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Anne Stadler via OSList Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 10:37 PM To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org; oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 My observation: authority in OS soon rests with those who show presence as defined by Otto Scharmer et al. You can see this appear particularly in multi day OS sessions or when you use OS as a means of organizational governance as we did in Spirited Work (see my writeup in CollectiveWisdomInitiative.org about Spirited Work, an experimental OS learning community of practice.) When people show up, listen deeply and take responsibility for selves and the whole, authority emerges. (My version of Law of Two Feet supports that: take responsibility for what you care about, use your two feet to move in and out of situations accordingly.) Thanks Daniel for the interesting question. Kind regards! Anne stadler Your Self Occupy 100% A world that works for ALL is a world of love made visible Phone: 206-459-0227 Skype: anne.m.stadler Www.CompassionateSeattle.org www.CharterforCompassion.org www.ProtecttheSacred.org On Sep 28, 2014, at 4:57 PM, via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Send OSList mailing list submissions to oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org You can reach the person managing the list at oslist-ow...@lists.openspacetech.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of OSList digest... Today's Topics: 1. wosonos2015 (Raffi Aftandelian via OSList) 2. Re: Authority Distribution in Open Space (Daniel Mezick via OSList) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 19:14:19 -0700 From: Raffi Aftandelian via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To: OSlist oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: [OSList] wosonos2015 Message-ID: 1411870459.93148.yahoomail...@web140803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 ditto what chris said. as a co-org'r of a previous wosonos (in another slavic country) happy to share my experience- the good, the differently good, and the quite differently good- aspects of organizing such an event. laramtsa, raffi ** I am the culturally White middle class American taxpayer, up to my chin in hypocrisy, double standards, a sense of entitlement, and choking on overconsumption, blissfully in denial about how 60% of my federal income taxes go to a military that sustains genocide and ecocide the world over ...all in the name of democracy, freedom, and happiness for all -- a riff off of Thic Nhat Hanh's Please Call Me By My True Names -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140927/66f1e2f4/attachment.html -- Message: 2 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 08:37:12 -0400 From: Daniel Mezick via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] Authority Distribution in Open Space Message-ID: 542800f8.9070...@newtechusa.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; Format=flowed Hi Harold, You say: /..I struggle to translate is the concept of coercion and authority from the vantage of it's all open space. Can we really be coerced? How are we all already opting in to empower the authorities?/ // /...Could we just be volunteering for the victim part of our stories?/ // /...I have some thoughts about this, but I wonder what you would say to such a challenge to the relevance of authority in OST?/ Hmmm...interesting questions for
Re: [OSList] Off topic - a bit
I say, this is open space, and here we have a topic on the wall. I bring my passion to the wall and take responsibility of my own experience and participation in the topics. So I share what I found in my internal dialogue while English is only my 3rd language. 1. I ask google: https://www.google.is/search?q=define+lonely * sad because one has no friends or company. - antonyms:popular * without companions; solitary. - antonyms:sociable * (of a place) unfrequented and remote. - antonyms:populous, crowded 2. I ask opposite-dictionary http://www.opposite-dictionary.com/ * antonyms: Accompanied 3. And I ask my gut * antonyms: happy, content, frolicsome, patience, playful, gay, light-hearted, high-spirited... *-* and now I find the connection to open space as the keyword high-spirited connects to writings abut open space. For opening the space with a proper topic will open up space for people to feel high-spirited and energized instead of lonely. *I like to propose a new topic, is it always possible to open up space for the lonely to find their passion? * This topic touches upon me now for the news article I was just reading before opening my mail was about how hate-groups hiding behind religion use the lure of purpose to recruit the lonely and afraid people. (the example in the local article used heathendom and white-supremacy hate-groups). On 30 September 2014 10:54, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) ___ 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 -- Kári Gunnarsson kari.gunnars...@simnet.is (+354) 864 5189 ___ 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] Lonely
Annamarie, Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today. I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus.com. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own): * populated * *sociable* * befriended * *close* * frequented * inhabited * *loved* * unlonely Warm Regards, Harold On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote: Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) ___ 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 -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com mailto:har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush http://twitter.com/hajush ___ 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
Re: [OSList] Lonely
And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely: Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. John On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Annamarie, Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today. I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus.com. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own): * populated * sociable * befriended * close * frequented * inhabited * loved * unlonely Warm Regards, Harold On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote: Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) ___ 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 -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush ___ 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] A Virtual OST Success Story
As some of you know, I've been at this for a couple of years now. Today, working on behalf of the Charter for Compassion International http://charterforcompassion.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u= 110391qid=5124428 , I was finally able to host a MaestroConference-based call that I felt truly lived up to the potential for Open Space in virtual form (in quotes since I know some of you purists might dispute that this really was OST!). Of course, it wasn't like being together in person for a day or two. Indeed, there was only one round of live small group conversation. But the combination of an online space that was opened on 9/22 using the hackpad platform and a 90 minute call eight days later using MaestroConference's newest social webinar beta really worked. Here are some highlights of the process (you can also view notes and more here on hackpad http://www.bit.ly/cfc093014 ): . We had 43 participants on the call for at least some of the 90 minutes, mostly from the US, but also including several from overseas. . Six topics were initiated by participants . In addition to the topic breakouts, there was a meet and greet session for just hanging out and connecting. This also served as a place to welcome late-comers to the call. As a result, the latter were easily integrated and able to join the conversations of their choosing . The topic conversations lasted a little more than 40 minutes . We ended with a full group popcorn-style harvest and some announcements . A number of participants attended a debrief after the official end of the call . A few participants also stayed on the line overtime to continue their topic conversations MC's new social webinar worked beautifully, allowing participants to do the following: . Exercise the law of two feet (really!) . See who was in their breakouts (including a thumbnail and contact info, if provided) . See who was talking or had their hands up Using hackpad, we were able to do the following: . Open the marketplace in advance, in order to both save time on the call and allow for some online discussion to get going. Five out of the six topics were initiated in advance. . Provide an index of topics and the room numbers for each (so that participants could move themselves to the right room) . Take collaborative notes during breakouts, with a separate pad for each one (note that social webinar now also provides shared document functionality for each breakout room, if desired) . Continue sharing notes and reflections once the call had ended (this is still ongoing) . Make detailed introductions before, during and after the call . Compile a shared listing of resources . Make announcements and requests It was also possible for participants to engage fully via their phones only (including moving between sessions) without using either hackpad or social webinar. This was important, as not everyone was able to be at a computer, and some who were at one had trouble using the online tools. Not everything was perfect, of course, and there were some lessons learned. The biggest challenge was that, despite many emails and online explanations in advance, some people were confused by the three ways to engage (phone, hackpad and social webinar) or had trouble accessing one or more of these elements. The vast majority, however, were either able to use these tools or to have a valuable and satisfying conversation without them. I expect that there will be future iterations planned on behalf of the Charter for Compassion, and I will promote them to this listserv now that I feel comfortable handling larger groups! MaestroConference is also very interested in promoting a series of large group conversations that could change the world. Perhaps there are some folks here who might want to collaborate with me in convening one? They plan for their platform to be able to manage calls in this way with over a thousand people in the near future. The thought of being able to regularly engage people at that scale in this way is pretty exciting! Peace, Ben Ben Roberts The Conversation Collaborative http://www.conversationcollaborative.com/ www. ConversationCollaborative.com (203) 426-1039 Skype: benjamin_j_roberts G+: benroberts@gmail.com tagxedo 1 ___ 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
Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 25
want to call an OSonOS - I have named just two. Ways any of us can host a wonderful learning and community gathering such as this. There are always ways to decide to want to host this particular thing called WOSonOS in future years. There are always ways for any of us to support these actions, these invitations, these teams. So nothing is limiting, everything is possible, and I offer my energies and enthusiasm in support to say CONGRATULATIONS POLISH TEAM !!! Lisa also known as Access Queen On Sep 24, 2014, at 7:04 AM, openspacedk1 openspace...@webhotel18.webhosting.dk wrote: Dear Thomas, Could not agree more. I believe our tradition to trust the community present by the end of any WOSONOS to decide, is a good and prescious one. And in line with the notion passion and responsability I thank our Polish collegues for their invitation, and look forward to a great WOSONOS 2015 in the beautiful city of Krakow. Gerard Open Space Institute Denmark ___ 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 -- *Gail West, ICA* *3F, No. 12, Lane 5, Tien Mou W RdTaipei, Taiwan 111Ph) 8862) 2871-3150* email) icat...@gmail.com Skype) gwestica www.icatw.com -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/1b42faf0/attachment.html -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 06:54:03 -0400 From: Annamarie Pluhar via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To: OSList@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: [OSList] Off topic - a bit Message-ID: 7e48f808-78e0-4a23-b990-06623bcfe...@pluharconsulting.com Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) -- Message: 3 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:36:05 -0700 From: Jeff Aitken via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To: World wide Open Space Technology email list oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 Message-ID: b1hjxic908ilm7pw6a0mc8s0.1412087765...@email.android.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Heres the direct link to Anne's paper about Spirited Work the open space learning community. Thanks Anne! http://collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/stadler_reflections.htm Jeff Original message From: Harrison Owen via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Date:09/29/2014 2:10 PM (GMT-08:00) To: 'Anne Stadler' anne.m.s...@gmail.com,'World wide Open Space Technology email list' oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 Anne ? How wonderful to ?see? you here. Spirited Work was a great experience and experiment. We all learned, with many thanks to yourself! ? Harrison ? Winter Address 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-2093 ? Summer Address 189 Beaucaire Ave. Camden, ME 04843 207-763-3261 ? Websites www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org ? From: OSList [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Anne Stadler via OSList Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 10:37 PM To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org; oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 ? My observation: authority in OS soon rests with those who show presence as defined by Otto Scharmer et al. You can see this appear particularly in multi day OS sessions or when you use OS as a means of organizational governance as we did in Spirited Work (see my writeup in CollectiveWisdomInitiative.org about Spirited Work, an experimental OS learning community of practice
Re: [OSList] Lonely
OMG! I wanted to keep quiet until everyone had a chance to offer their thoughts, (natural facilitator stance) but I must say that these thoughts and offerings are RICH.! Thank you all most heart-feltily/fully. The question remains about opposites to the word lonely.. Stephane (I can't find the keyboard for the accent) ... do your offered words have feeling associated with them? Like lonely does? Aside from Stephane's response, I'm interested in that we have Celtic, African, and American Indian but not Indo-European... Comments? Merci! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) On 30 Sep 2014, at 19:54, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Chris - thanks for the tie back to Cynefin! It does sound like a profound opposite of lonely, 'your places of multiple belongings'. Your explanation of Cynefin stimulated my recollection of the meaning of another possible opposite of lonely, the word Ubuntu, from the African Ngali Bantu language meaning 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. On 9/30/14 5:29 PM, Chris Corrigan wrote: Although I don't speak Welsh, one word I find very compelling is Cynefin pronounced kuh-NIV-en. I know the word because it's the name of of complexity framework. But it also means your places of multiple belonging. That refers to the fact that all of us feel many different homes and many different places where we feel connected in the world in English there's no word that can capture this sense of multiple belonging but I do like the idea that such a sentiment need to name. In Anishnabemowin which is the language of Ojibway and related peoples of North America, the word indinewmaganik means all my relations but is actually better translated as I belong to everything. That's as good an opposite of lonely as I can think of. -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Harvest Moon Consultants Facilitation, Open Space Technology and process design Check www.chriscorrigan.com http://www.chriscorrigan.com for upcoming workshops, blog posts and free resources. On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:19 PM, John Watkins via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely: Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. John On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Annamarie, Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today. I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus.com http://www.thesaurus.com/. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own): * populated * *sociable* * befriended * *close* * frequented * inhabited * *loved* * unlonely Warm Regards, Harold On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote: Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) ___ 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 -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com mailto:har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com http://shinsato.com/ twitter: @hajush http://twitter.com/hajush ___ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org mailto: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 mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org mailto:oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org --
Re: [OSList] Lonely
And of course in the Vedic tradition, where we sing the Sanskrit 'so hum' or 'sat nam' mantra together, when chanted with intention it's like the universal sound of OM...joint mind and heart, personal and transpersonal and that practice seems to seal the sense of connection - a practice aka - something that helps us experience and embrace the the opposite of loneliness This wisdom that arises from our bodies, this primordial delight of eternal life in connection with others that we experience in Open Space is also found in creative practices of sound and movement when we help each other to remember who we really are As a Quaker child in NY, all we did was to sit, and sit more, then when we sat together, the bizarre awareness of not being separate landed in us and then people branched out, creating new things Maybe Because they did not feel lonely Creativity arose from that connection in stillness, belonging and silent, until something moved in us to share... And now, the energy streams forth, just like Indras net...shimmering and opening toward a new so hum Allie Middleton from the iPad iPhone 518.669.9923 Skype - alliemiddleton Create it! ...an extra miracle, extra and ordinary: the unthinkable can be thought On Sep 30, 2014, at 21:04, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: OMG! I wanted to keep quiet until everyone had a chance to offer their thoughts, (natural facilitator stance) but I must say that these thoughts and offerings are RICH.! Thank you all most heart-feltily/fully. The question remains about opposites to the word lonely.. Stephane (I can't find the keyboard for the accent) ... do your offered words have feeling associated with them? Like lonely does? Aside from Stephane's response, I'm interested in that we have Celtic, African, and American Indian but not Indo-European... Comments? Merci! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) On 30 Sep 2014, at 19:54, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Chris - thanks for the tie back to Cynefin! It does sound like a profound opposite of lonely, 'your places of multiple belongings'. Your explanation of Cynefin stimulated my recollection of the meaning of another possible opposite of lonely, the word Ubuntu, from the African Ngali Bantu language meaning 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. On 9/30/14 5:29 PM, Chris Corrigan wrote: Although I don't speak Welsh, one word I find very compelling is Cynefin pronounced kuh-NIV-en. I know the word because it's the name of of complexity framework. But it also means your places of multiple belonging. That refers to the fact that all of us feel many different homes and many different places where we feel connected in the world in English there's no word that can capture this sense of multiple belonging but I do like the idea that such a sentiment need to name. In Anishnabemowin which is the language of Ojibway and related peoples of North America, the word indinewmaganik means all my relations but is actually better translated as I belong to everything. That's as good an opposite of lonely as I can think of. -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Harvest Moon Consultants Facilitation, Open Space Technology and process design Check www.chriscorrigan.com http://www.chriscorrigan.com for upcoming workshops, blog posts and free resources. On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:19 PM, John Watkins via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely: Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. John On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Annamarie, Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today. I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus.com http://www.thesaurus.com/. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own): * populated * *sociable* * befriended * *close* * frequented * inhabited * *loved* * unlonely Warm Regards, Harold On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote: Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel
[OSList] Off topic - a bit
Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) ___ 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
Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22
Heres the direct link to Anne's paper about Spirited Work the open space learning community. Thanks Anne! http://collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/stadler_reflections.htm Jeff Original message From: Harrison Owen via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Date:09/29/2014 2:10 PM (GMT-08:00) To: 'Anne Stadler' anne.m.s...@gmail.com,'World wide Open Space Technology email list' oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 Anne – How wonderful to “see” you here. Spirited Work was a great experience and experiment. We all learned, with many thanks to yourself! Harrison Winter Address 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-2093 Summer Address 189 Beaucaire Ave. Camden, ME 04843 207-763-3261 Websites www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: OSList [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Anne Stadler via OSList Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 10:37 PM To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org; oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 My observation: authority in OS soon rests with those who show presence as defined by Otto Scharmer et al. You can see this appear particularly in multi day OS sessions or when you use OS as a means of organizational governance as we did in Spirited Work (see my writeup in CollectiveWisdomInitiative.org about Spirited Work, an experimental OS learning community of practice.) When people show up, listen deeply and take responsibility for selves and the whole, authority emerges. (My version of Law of Two Feet supports that: take responsibility for what you care about, use your two feet to move in and out of situations accordingly.) Thanks Daniel for the interesting question. Kind regards! Anne stadler Your Self Occupy 100% A world that works for ALL is a world of love made visible Phone: 206-459-0227 Skype: anne.m.stadler Www.CompassionateSeattle.org www.CharterforCompassion.org www.ProtecttheSacred.org On Sep 28, 2014, at 4:57 PM, via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Send OSList mailing list submissions to oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org You can reach the person managing the list at oslist-ow...@lists.openspacetech.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of OSList digest... Today's Topics: 1. wosonos2015 (Raffi Aftandelian via OSList) 2. Re: Authority Distribution in Open Space (Daniel Mezick via OSList) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 19:14:19 -0700 From: Raffi Aftandelian via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To: OSlist oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: [OSList] wosonos2015 Message-ID: 1411870459.93148.yahoomail...@web140803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 ditto what chris said. as a co-org'r of a previous wosonos (in another slavic country) happy to share my experience- the good, the differently good, and the quite differently good- aspects of organizing such an event. laramtsa, raffi ** I am the culturally White middle class American taxpayer, up to my chin in hypocrisy, double standards, a sense of entitlement, and choking on overconsumption, blissfully in denial about how 60% of my federal income taxes go to a military that sustains genocide and ecocide the world over ...all in the name of democracy, freedom, and happiness for all -- a riff off of Thic Nhat Hanh's Please Call Me By My True Names -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140927/66f1e2f4/attachment.html -- Message: 2 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 08:37:12 -0400 From: Daniel Mezick via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] Authority Distribution in Open Space Message-ID: 542800f8.9070...@newtechusa.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; Format=flowed Hi Harold, You say: /..I struggle to translate is the concept of coercion and authority from the vantage of it's all open space. Can we really be coerced? How are we all already opting in to empower the authorities?/ // /...Could we just be volunteering for the victim part of our stories?/ // /...I have some thoughts about this, but I wonder what you would say to such a challenge to the relevance of authority in OST?/ Hmmm...interesting questions for
Re: [OSList] Off topic - a bit
I say, this is open space, and here we have a topic on the wall. I bring my passion to the wall and take responsibility of my own experience and participation in the topics. So I share what I found in my internal dialogue while English is only my 3rd language. 1. I ask google: https://www.google.is/search?q=define+lonely * sad because one has no friends or company. - antonyms:popular * without companions; solitary. - antonyms:sociable * (of a place) unfrequented and remote. - antonyms:populous, crowded 2. I ask opposite-dictionary http://www.opposite-dictionary.com/ * antonyms: Accompanied 3. And I ask my gut * antonyms: happy, content, frolicsome, patience, playful, gay, light-hearted, high-spirited... *-* and now I find the connection to open space as the keyword high-spirited connects to writings abut open space. For opening the space with a proper topic will open up space for people to feel high-spirited and energized instead of lonely. *I like to propose a new topic, is it always possible to open up space for the lonely to find their passion? * This topic touches upon me now for the news article I was just reading before opening my mail was about how hate-groups hiding behind religion use the lure of purpose to recruit the lonely and afraid people. (the example in the local article used heathendom and white-supremacy hate-groups). On 30 September 2014 10:54, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) ___ 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 -- Kári Gunnarsson kari.gunnars...@simnet.is (+354) 864 5189 ___ 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] Lonely
Annamarie, Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today. I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus.com. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own): * populated * *sociable* * befriended * *close* * frequented * inhabited * *loved* * unlonely Warm Regards, Harold On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote: Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) ___ 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 -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com mailto:har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush http://twitter.com/hajush ___ 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
Re: [OSList] Lonely
And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely: Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. John On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Annamarie, Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today. I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus.com. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own): * populated * sociable * befriended * close * frequented * inhabited * loved * unlonely Warm Regards, Harold On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote: Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) ___ 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 -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush ___ 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] A Virtual OST Success Story
As some of you know, I've been at this for a couple of years now. Today, working on behalf of the Charter for Compassion International http://charterforcompassion.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u= 110391qid=5124428 , I was finally able to host a MaestroConference-based call that I felt truly lived up to the potential for Open Space in virtual form (in quotes since I know some of you purists might dispute that this really was OST!). Of course, it wasn't like being together in person for a day or two. Indeed, there was only one round of live small group conversation. But the combination of an online space that was opened on 9/22 using the hackpad platform and a 90 minute call eight days later using MaestroConference's newest social webinar beta really worked. Here are some highlights of the process (you can also view notes and more here on hackpad http://www.bit.ly/cfc093014 ): . We had 43 participants on the call for at least some of the 90 minutes, mostly from the US, but also including several from overseas. . Six topics were initiated by participants . In addition to the topic breakouts, there was a meet and greet session for just hanging out and connecting. This also served as a place to welcome late-comers to the call. As a result, the latter were easily integrated and able to join the conversations of their choosing . The topic conversations lasted a little more than 40 minutes . We ended with a full group popcorn-style harvest and some announcements . A number of participants attended a debrief after the official end of the call . A few participants also stayed on the line overtime to continue their topic conversations MC's new social webinar worked beautifully, allowing participants to do the following: . Exercise the law of two feet (really!) . See who was in their breakouts (including a thumbnail and contact info, if provided) . See who was talking or had their hands up Using hackpad, we were able to do the following: . Open the marketplace in advance, in order to both save time on the call and allow for some online discussion to get going. Five out of the six topics were initiated in advance. . Provide an index of topics and the room numbers for each (so that participants could move themselves to the right room) . Take collaborative notes during breakouts, with a separate pad for each one (note that social webinar now also provides shared document functionality for each breakout room, if desired) . Continue sharing notes and reflections once the call had ended (this is still ongoing) . Make detailed introductions before, during and after the call . Compile a shared listing of resources . Make announcements and requests It was also possible for participants to engage fully via their phones only (including moving between sessions) without using either hackpad or social webinar. This was important, as not everyone was able to be at a computer, and some who were at one had trouble using the online tools. Not everything was perfect, of course, and there were some lessons learned. The biggest challenge was that, despite many emails and online explanations in advance, some people were confused by the three ways to engage (phone, hackpad and social webinar) or had trouble accessing one or more of these elements. The vast majority, however, were either able to use these tools or to have a valuable and satisfying conversation without them. I expect that there will be future iterations planned on behalf of the Charter for Compassion, and I will promote them to this listserv now that I feel comfortable handling larger groups! MaestroConference is also very interested in promoting a series of large group conversations that could change the world. Perhaps there are some folks here who might want to collaborate with me in convening one? They plan for their platform to be able to manage calls in this way with over a thousand people in the near future. The thought of being able to regularly engage people at that scale in this way is pretty exciting! Peace, Ben Ben Roberts The Conversation Collaborative http://www.conversationcollaborative.com/ www. ConversationCollaborative.com (203) 426-1039 Skype: benjamin_j_roberts G+: benroberts@gmail.com tagxedo 1 ___ 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
Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 25
want to call an OSonOS - I have named just two. Ways any of us can host a wonderful learning and community gathering such as this. There are always ways to decide to want to host this particular thing called WOSonOS in future years. There are always ways for any of us to support these actions, these invitations, these teams. So nothing is limiting, everything is possible, and I offer my energies and enthusiasm in support to say CONGRATULATIONS POLISH TEAM !!! Lisa also known as Access Queen On Sep 24, 2014, at 7:04 AM, openspacedk1 openspace...@webhotel18.webhosting.dk wrote: Dear Thomas, Could not agree more. I believe our tradition to trust the community present by the end of any WOSONOS to decide, is a good and prescious one. And in line with the notion passion and responsability I thank our Polish collegues for their invitation, and look forward to a great WOSONOS 2015 in the beautiful city of Krakow. Gerard Open Space Institute Denmark ___ 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 -- *Gail West, ICA* *3F, No. 12, Lane 5, Tien Mou W RdTaipei, Taiwan 111Ph) 8862) 2871-3150* email) icat...@gmail.com Skype) gwestica www.icatw.com -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/1b42faf0/attachment.html -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 06:54:03 -0400 From: Annamarie Pluhar via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To: OSList@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: [OSList] Off topic - a bit Message-ID: 7e48f808-78e0-4a23-b990-06623bcfe...@pluharconsulting.com Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) -- Message: 3 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:36:05 -0700 From: Jeff Aitken via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To: World wide Open Space Technology email list oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 Message-ID: b1hjxic908ilm7pw6a0mc8s0.1412087765...@email.android.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Heres the direct link to Anne's paper about Spirited Work the open space learning community. Thanks Anne! http://collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/stadler_reflections.htm Jeff Original message From: Harrison Owen via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Date:09/29/2014 2:10 PM (GMT-08:00) To: 'Anne Stadler' anne.m.s...@gmail.com,'World wide Open Space Technology email list' oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 Anne ? How wonderful to ?see? you here. Spirited Work was a great experience and experiment. We all learned, with many thanks to yourself! ? Harrison ? Winter Address 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-2093 ? Summer Address 189 Beaucaire Ave. Camden, ME 04843 207-763-3261 ? Websites www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org ? From: OSList [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Anne Stadler via OSList Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 10:37 PM To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org; oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 ? My observation: authority in OS soon rests with those who show presence as defined by Otto Scharmer et al. You can see this appear particularly in multi day OS sessions or when you use OS as a means of organizational governance as we did in Spirited Work (see my writeup in CollectiveWisdomInitiative.org about Spirited Work, an experimental OS learning community of practice
Re: [OSList] Lonely
OMG! I wanted to keep quiet until everyone had a chance to offer their thoughts, (natural facilitator stance) but I must say that these thoughts and offerings are RICH.! Thank you all most heart-feltily/fully. The question remains about opposites to the word lonely.. Stephane (I can't find the keyboard for the accent) ... do your offered words have feeling associated with them? Like lonely does? Aside from Stephane's response, I'm interested in that we have Celtic, African, and American Indian but not Indo-European... Comments? Merci! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) On 30 Sep 2014, at 19:54, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Chris - thanks for the tie back to Cynefin! It does sound like a profound opposite of lonely, 'your places of multiple belongings'. Your explanation of Cynefin stimulated my recollection of the meaning of another possible opposite of lonely, the word Ubuntu, from the African Ngali Bantu language meaning 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. On 9/30/14 5:29 PM, Chris Corrigan wrote: Although I don't speak Welsh, one word I find very compelling is Cynefin pronounced kuh-NIV-en. I know the word because it's the name of of complexity framework. But it also means your places of multiple belonging. That refers to the fact that all of us feel many different homes and many different places where we feel connected in the world in English there's no word that can capture this sense of multiple belonging but I do like the idea that such a sentiment need to name. In Anishnabemowin which is the language of Ojibway and related peoples of North America, the word indinewmaganik means all my relations but is actually better translated as I belong to everything. That's as good an opposite of lonely as I can think of. -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Harvest Moon Consultants Facilitation, Open Space Technology and process design Check www.chriscorrigan.com http://www.chriscorrigan.com for upcoming workshops, blog posts and free resources. On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:19 PM, John Watkins via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely: Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. John On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Annamarie, Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today. I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus.com http://www.thesaurus.com/. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own): * populated * *sociable* * befriended * *close* * frequented * inhabited * *loved* * unlonely Warm Regards, Harold On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote: Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel free to respond to me off list.. annama...@pluharconsulting.com Thanks! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) ___ 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 -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com mailto:har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com http://shinsato.com/ twitter: @hajush http://twitter.com/hajush ___ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org mailto: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 mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org mailto: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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And of course in the Vedic tradition, where we sing the Sanskrit 'so hum' or 'sat nam' mantra together, when chanted with intention it's like the universal sound of OM...joint mind and heart, personal and transpersonal and that practice seems to seal the sense of connection - a practice aka - something that helps us experience and embrace the the opposite of loneliness This wisdom that arises from our bodies, this primordial delight of eternal life in connection with others that we experience in Open Space is also found in creative practices of sound and movement when we help each other to remember who we really are As a Quaker child in NY, all we did was to sit, and sit more, then when we sat together, the bizarre awareness of not being separate landed in us and then people branched out, creating new things Maybe Because they did not feel lonely Creativity arose from that connection in stillness, belonging and silent, until something moved in us to share... And now, the energy streams forth, just like Indras net...shimmering and opening toward a new so hum Allie Middleton from the iPad iPhone 518.669.9923 Skype - alliemiddleton Create it! ...an extra miracle, extra and ordinary: the unthinkable can be thought On Sep 30, 2014, at 21:04, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: OMG! I wanted to keep quiet until everyone had a chance to offer their thoughts, (natural facilitator stance) but I must say that these thoughts and offerings are RICH.! Thank you all most heart-feltily/fully. The question remains about opposites to the word lonely.. Stephane (I can't find the keyboard for the accent) ... do your offered words have feeling associated with them? Like lonely does? Aside from Stephane's response, I'm interested in that we have Celtic, African, and American Indian but not Indo-European... Comments? Merci! Annamarie Pluhar Pluhar Consulting http://www.pluharconsulting.com 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) On 30 Sep 2014, at 19:54, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Chris - thanks for the tie back to Cynefin! It does sound like a profound opposite of lonely, 'your places of multiple belongings'. Your explanation of Cynefin stimulated my recollection of the meaning of another possible opposite of lonely, the word Ubuntu, from the African Ngali Bantu language meaning 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. On 9/30/14 5:29 PM, Chris Corrigan wrote: Although I don't speak Welsh, one word I find very compelling is Cynefin pronounced kuh-NIV-en. I know the word because it's the name of of complexity framework. But it also means your places of multiple belonging. That refers to the fact that all of us feel many different homes and many different places where we feel connected in the world in English there's no word that can capture this sense of multiple belonging but I do like the idea that such a sentiment need to name. In Anishnabemowin which is the language of Ojibway and related peoples of North America, the word indinewmaganik means all my relations but is actually better translated as I belong to everything. That's as good an opposite of lonely as I can think of. -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Harvest Moon Consultants Facilitation, Open Space Technology and process design Check www.chriscorrigan.com http://www.chriscorrigan.com for upcoming workshops, blog posts and free resources. On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:19 PM, John Watkins via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely: Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. John On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote: Annamarie, Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today. I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus.com http://www.thesaurus.com/. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own): * populated * *sociable* * befriended * *close* * frequented * inhabited * *loved* * unlonely Warm Regards, Harold On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote: Hi all, For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English Does your language have a word that is the opposite of lonely? Feel
