Peggy:
Your comments are right on. I too have been disappointed at the coverage of
the tragic events of this past week. This list has helped me understand much
a lot more than all of the talking heads on TV. In fact, I used several
different stories from the past several days on the oslist in o
John:
Thank you for the article. You will be glad to know that conversations on
our role and image in the world are taking place in many corners of our
community. We do need a wake up call to our arrogant ways. Tonight in
Peoria, we just had an Interfaith Service of Remembrance and Reflection f
In the Jewish tradition, the new moon of Rosh Hashanah begins tomorrow.
During OSONOS I sounded the shofar to greet the previous new moon of Final
Planting. I wish to hold all the children of Avraham in my heart as I
forward this story. --Jeff
from Marshall Rosenberg's book, Nonviolent Communicati
After a phone conversation with Paul Everett
who told me about this List, I thought of a
sound byte about the "feeding people" solution
to the terrorist problem-- giving food and
various other economic forms of aid e.g. to
Palestine. "People who work in glass offices
do not throw airplanes (again
Dear Jeff,
the largest os I have been involved in was with 280 people, still:
I used to be pretty worried about keynote speakers, trying to get the
sponsor to either do without or to ask the speaker to offer his topic
as one of the issues and then let whoever wanted to go to his
group...
In the mea
Dear everyone: another piece a friend sent to me that I now share with
you. -- Lisa Heft, Berkeley, California, USA
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An Afghani's Perspective
by Tamim Ansary,
reposted on Sat Sep 15 '01 (
by Tamim Ansary, a writer and
columnist in San Francisco, who comes from Afghanistan.
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I have the suspicion that we need to look for more questions...all
those answers seem to be getting us into deeper and deeper trouble
michael
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:03:57 EDT, Joelle Lyons Everett wrote:
>Chris--
>
>Doing more of what the world, and ourselves, have done forever does not seem
>to
Hello, dear and loving friends --
I am warmed by your ability to struggle towards the words that frame our
emotions at a time when the unthinkable and the undefinable are
affecting us so deeply. Our hearts can grow to any size, and my heart
enfolds you all.
And now it is time to take care of our
"uwe.weissflog" schrieb:
> I would be willing to help to bring something like this to life in Europe.
> There is a conversation about pro bono work on the german speaking list
> "schneller Wandel", maybe this is a possibility for us in Central Europe to
> fill this with life.
> Uwe
uwe,
ich habe
Peggy
A possible theme for newspaper editors:
How can the press inform the public and be responsible, objective and balanced?
Cheers
Kerry
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Dear Peggy,
in getting ready for an open space event I work with the planning
group on what they think should be achieved through the event. The
typical question I pose is "What do you see things to be like on the
day after the open space event?".
When that is somewhat clear, I ask them who all nee
Dear colleagues!
Last Thursday I reported on the result of the deep discussion the
planning group for the open space on "The future of Beethoven" had
with the principal of this local highschool on whether to go ahead
with the event in the face of the heinous terrorist attacks in the US
with the re
Peggy,
Seems to me the Open Space that ALL live in on the Earth BECAME VISIBLE TO
ALL last Tuesday. In light of that I suggest another possile theme for
newspaper editors:
Who is holding the Space?
Maybe this is a question for more than just newspaper editors.
Rich Norris
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Dear Chris,
I'm so proud to be acquanted to such a wise lady. She has all answers for
our adult questions, I wish all people hear the voices of our children...
let them be true
say, please, hello to Aine
take care
elena
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From: "Chris Corrigan"
To:
Sent: Sunday, Se
Birgitt,
Thank you for this vital and especially timely work you are offering to the
world.
I will be joining you and all in opening space and participating in the
energy work the morning of September 21, and will become part of the
collective that will hold the space for harmony in the world. I
Peggy, you said:
I also suspect that as self disclosure happens, the asynchronous nature of
this way of communicating helps us to go deeper. When I read something
that
makes me defensive, I can go away and breathe deeply. When I return, a
loving and honest response appears. And we all
Chris--
Doing more of what the world, and ourselves, have done forever does not seem
to be working very well. Maybe it's time to look for new answers.
Thank you, Aine.
Joelle Everett
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I came across a mail / petition, that I joined some time ago and sent to
friends,
today I got the same petition from a friend.
I think, it belongs also to the discussion going on here.
I erased quite a lot of header stuff this mail went though, but mention the
time this branch of the mail was cre
In a message dated 9/15/01 12:24:52 PM, jsm...@mosquitonet.com writes:
<< And I've wondered if those
who felt that way would feel this is safe enough space to express those
feelings. I hope so.
>>
Julie,
I am sure you will find it so. You will also need to be willing to take in
and consid
Andrea,
Noon (1200 hours) Greenwich Mean Time (London) is 7:00 AM (0700 hours), New
York Time (Eastern Time) which is also 10:00 PM (2200 hours), Melbourne time,
and 4:00 AM (0400 hours) Seattle time where I am. However, there is the
question of daylight savings time. We are on that in the Unite
Hi, Dan
I don't think it's a Type I problem for sure.
I think it's going to take lots of experts and
non-experts both. I like the idea of what I
would call Stage I solutions.
There would be methods by which people learn
to discharge their emotions and communicate
effectively and nonviolently in o
Dear folks,
Lisa's police academy story (from the Future Search listserv-- see
below) triggered a memory of an important part of my life that I recall
from time to time but haven't really thought of since the US attack.
I lived from 1973-1982 (age 3 to 12) in Iran, which means I was there
during
Dear folks,
Lisa's police academy story (from the Future Search listserv-- see
below) triggered a memory of an important part of my life that I recall
from time to time but haven't really thought of since the US attack.
I lived from 1973-1982 (age 3 to 12) in Iran, which means I was there
during
Chris Corrigan schrieb:
> "Feed them."
>
> "Feed them?" I said.
>
> "Yes," she said. "If we feed them they won't want to eat us."
>
love to aine.
thank you for that lesson.
chris, send the message to the president.
it sounds so simple. it is so simple. it is so bright.
it is convincing.
florian
Dear Peggy, dear list,
when I read your note I remembered the following remark from my coaching
education: "We become and are what we pay attention to". It seems to me that
this is one of the big questions we now face, individually and collectively. The
journalism we experience requires listeners a
John,
Brilliant and wonderful piece of writing. No space for those space invaders
with hate in their heart. Right on!!
Paul Everett
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Peggy Holman schrieb:
>
>
> P.S. Thanks for your thoughts on the journalism conference. Please keep
> them coming and I'll let you know how it goes...
>
peggy,
what an important chance on that job.
you are the very right one to do it.
to proposals:
every writer should be known with name and p
Dear Chris and Dear Aine,
Thank you so, so much for sharing your dialogs and questions you found
in
the nature.
Aine you are so wise. Thanks again ... I am very deep touched ... you
made
my heart warm.
If there would be any way to bring your suggestions into reality ...what
a
gift for all humans!
Averbuch schrieb:
> There is a question that keeps knocking on my doors
> and I need your help for it because I could not come with any
> reasonable answer for myself:"What would you do if in an OST gathering
>
> came a space invader with a shot gun
> claming this gathering is offensive for him
You mention that the American way is that you can
solve anything. I guess it is. As an American, I don't
even know if that is really true. I do know that we Americans
have had many experiences of solving problems that were
previously thought to be unsolvable. So I figure why not go for
it and
Hi Julie,
You wrote,
>>
You mention that the American way is that you can solve anything. I guess
it is. As an American, I don't even know if that is really true. I do know
that we Americans have had many experiences of solving problems that were
previously thought to be unsolvable. So I figu
Dear Barry,
I am a OS facilitator from Taiwan.
Since Tuesday the only news we got here are directly translated from US media,
largely biased. I do think this article represents a crucial perspective and
would like to translate it into Chinese. Can you help me to get Tamim's
permission? This co
Dear open space friends from all over the world,
I want forward to all of you a link regarding a Peace Petition-Initiative,
which
is adressed to the President of the United States of North America.
This is a german initiative, but more and more poeple from many
different countries are entering th
Hi.
I ponder the following three aspects of a Calling Question:
* What is the highest purpose of Journalism and the Journalist ?
* What does it mean as Journalists to live our lives in accordance to
that highest purpose ?
* What higher purpose am I willing to commit to in my practice of
John Dicus,
thank you for you massage, for adding these voices ."opening space is not
enough" the "holding" can be threatened in a very challenging way.I deeply feel
it right now.
My dearest friends of the list :
There is a question that keeps knocking on my doors and I need your help for it
friends
as the global mind
spirals and swarms
walk with me among
the hundred-year-old
trees
only deep roots
know the ways
of groundwater
tall trunks
face the dawn
open as the breast
of a hawk in flight
each leaf readies itself
carefully
to fall
in complete
surrender
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John:
We had an interesting discussion at OSonOS IX about space invaders, and
the conclusion I arrived at was this:
Space invaders are people that violate our own standards and our givens
as facilitators. But they are operating out of passion and
responsibility, for it takes great courage to sta
My daughter Aine and I were walking in the woods today playing a game.
She was pretending that there were monsters in the forest and that they
were coming to eat us. We had to be vigilant. We had to defend
ourselves.
I asked her "What is the plan? What are we going to do if we see one of
the mon
"The Law of Entrophy"
The pain is so strong
that it is almost killing itself
a struggle of life ond death
at the very centre
if I cannot bear this burning agony
day after day after day
the big coldness will gain even more ground
"Surprise"
The only way to survive this
still alive
is with extreme
Dear Julie,
Thank you. For two reasons.
First, the initial messages did cause a bit if anger to stir in me, and
I'll own that. And this was my involuntary reaction (though I don't mean
to direct it at anyone but myself): Talk of caution, how love needed to
overcome (like nobody would realize t
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