Re: A First Step From Rome

2002-06-14 Thread Judi Richardson
Hello to all that are following this line I have been away from the computer for the last few days, and was delighted to find your postings upon my return tonight. As Harrison, Tova, Avner and Carol are doing extraordinary/ordinary work in their part of the world, on a smaller scale we are ha

Re: a first step from Rome /determination

2002-06-14 Thread florian fischer
WB-TrainConsult schrieb: > > > metaphor of the railway switch for the effect of past > decisions for the future. ..sometimes this metaphor may fortify > fatalistic > interpretations of "beeing determined > by our past" which is only a part of the truth, in most facilitations > of visioni

Re: Palestinians and Israelis in Rome - long

2002-06-14 Thread Harrison Owen
At 01:14 AM 6/13/2002 +0200, Avner Haramati wrote: Starting the 3rd day with closure that enable people to work through what happened to them in the last 2 days was briliant. It freed the energies of the people to use all the afternoon, evening and some of the day after to take full responsibili

Re: a first step from Rome

2002-06-14 Thread WB-TrainConsult
Glory, I wanted to give a short answer. I was not able to do so. So I do not post it to the list, but send it off-list to you. Thanks again for your feedbacks to me. Bernhard Glory and all, It is long, because I usually do not yet understand clearly, what I am writing about, so I e

Re: a first step from Rome

2002-06-14 Thread Glory Ressler
Bernhard, Thank you. You words are very good and much shorter than mine - and I am a native english speaker! Good reminder for me :-) Thanks to Joelle for prompting your message with her feedback! And thanks to Metta Zetty's reflection ( http://awakening.net/Reflections.html ), that sums up part

Re: Palestinians and Israelis in Rome - long

2002-06-14 Thread Glory Ressler
Harrison, Thank you for this post... you are truly activating a deep learning here. You wrote> Truthfully, I didn't really know where I was headed when the 3rd day started, and when last I had talked to my colleagues Avner, Tova, Carol and the sponsors the evening before I had indicated my inte

Subtle and the sledge hammer (long-ish)

2002-06-14 Thread Ralph Copleman
Research into the subtle? I¹m still working on mastering the obvious. __ On another topic, here¹s another tale from open space. As I was perusing the postings about Harrison¹s breath-takingly hopeful experience in Rome, I was holding space for a group of pharmaceutical executives in New Jersey.

Re: Palestinians and Israelis in Rome - long

2002-06-14 Thread WB-TrainConsult
Harrison, thank you for this sharing of your (self-) analysis. Great teaching for me about principles, pre-concepts and gut-feeling in very difficult situations Bernd - wb-traincons...@gmx.net 14.06.2002 at 17:34:01 (GMT/UT + 02:00) On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:33:26 -0400, Harrison Owen wrote: I

Re: Subtle and the sledge hammer

2002-06-14 Thread Glory Ressler
Dear Ralph, Yeehaw! What a ride You can't tell me that you weren't a master of the subtle holding of space with this gig! :-) Thank the universal life energy that you, and open space, were there... Hey... you're up a notch or two from me on the mundane scale - never had an OST like the one y

Boomeritis by Ken Wilber

2002-06-14 Thread Eric Lilius
I just received this taste of a novel written by Ken Wilber. (Summary from the book jacket: ) Ken Wilber’s latest book is a daring departure from his previous writings – a highly original work of fiction that combines brilliant scholarship with tongue-in-cheek storytelling to present the integral

Another report on Rome

2002-06-14 Thread Michael Schwartz
Here is a report on the Rome meeting which appeared in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency weekly e-mail edition: -- Israelis, Palestinians hope retreat helps awaken peace from its slumber By Ruth E. Gruber ROME, June 13 (JTA) -- According to one school of thought, the m

Re: A Report from the Field - Another One - Short!

2002-06-14 Thread Fr Brian S Bainbridge
Dear Harrison and Judy I liked the list of topics you shared with us, Judy. Very interesting. For the record - and from a pragmatic way of helping space and Peace to grow - I opened space for one day for about 150 parishioners at a neighbouring Melbourne parish last Monday, which was a public holi

Re: A Report from the Field - Another One - Short!

2002-06-14 Thread Jim Metcalf
Dear Brian and all fellow adventurers in Open Space! I am struggling with two opportunities. The first is for my own congregation, a pleasant, unchallenged group of Lutherans. I am planning an Open Space event for them, with the encouragement of the council, to plan activity for the months Septembe

Re: How explain/demonstrate OS to Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, etc.?

2002-06-14 Thread Fr Brian S Bainbridge
For Douglas German: Broome, in Western Australia, is a long way from everywhere. Pretty much an outback town. Their Rotary Club meets weekly on Wednesdays at 0630 for one hour. I was known to be in town, and they asked me to yarn with them about "Open Space". I didn't do that. But I did ask those