This is such an awsome, inspiring action. Gandhi would definitely approve!
I just had to share this with all of you. In peace --BJ Peters
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,866258,00.html
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This is such an awesome, inspiring action. Gandhi would definitely approve!
I just had to share this with all of you. In peace --BJ Peters
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,866258,00.html
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Chris wrote:
"So I'm increasingly thinking that there is no such thing as empowerment. I
just don't see it being possible to empower others."
Thank you for your thoughts Chris, it is the same with motivation - another
people cannot motivate me, it comes from within. What we/others can do is to
cr
Dear John,
wonderful to hear that you allready experience situations, where OS is the
"natural" norm for meetings.
I believed, that this such a 'de-conditioning' (see below)should be possible by
OS, but did not experience it yet. 8 years of "social investment" is not
little, but of course not t
One of the great things about OSLIST is the way conversations start at
multiple points and then ebb and flow to form a common theme. Not unlike
what happens in Open Space (because it is Open Space, I guess) this
phenomenon appears to be but one more example of what we have been talking
about. Eme
On 2/17/03 10:40 AM, "Harrison Owen" wrote:
> the next time a client asks, "Does Open Space always work?" -- we might
> answer, "Truthfully we don't really know, but it seems to have done pretty
> well for the past 13.7 billion years." I am not sure that I would recommend
> this approach, unless
I'm going to take a stab at playing with a bunch of the ideas raised
over the last few days. I'll respond to Harrison's post below in
chunks. My comments are in blue:
-Original Message-
From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of
Harrison Owen
Sent: Monday, Februa
Apparently, one of the questions that was asked of Albert Einstein, was
"what is the most important question for a person to answer?". He replied
"to determine for him or herself whether the universe is friendly or
unfriendly".
I believe that all of our core beliefs, beliefs and assumptions are ro
Birgitt:
Einstein was very profound in this statement. You have given me inspiration
for the coaching I am doing with a client. I believe this client has been
viewing the world as unfriendly and perhaps it is time for this client to
become aware of this belief and explore the impact of it on the p
We had some media coverage, from a skeptical local newspaper publisher
who stayed for the whole three days (my favourite kind of skeptic):
>From the Maple Ridge - Pitt Meadows Bugel
Volume 5, Number 13, Wednesday February 12, 2003
Page 2.
Editorial: Building Bonds of Friendship
When you work a
hi esther and birgitt.
anything that eistein said gets my attention and respect. this quote is
particularly interesting and really leaves a lot of options.
for instance, if the universe allows planet earth to stop functioning, this
would be a very friendly thing for the tens (hundreds?) of milli
A few thoughts prompted by this rich discussion:
One view of the "parousia" of Christian Nirvana (heaven or whatever in
Blue language the "Kingdom of God") is that it is both present and
coming. It does partly relate to "invitation" (which is always there)
and to "realization" which is still in a
At 10:26 AM 2/17/2003 -0800, Chris wrote:
This idea of grief work as a fundamental tool is interesting too. I see
what you are saying Harrison, but something feels to me like that s only
part of the answer.
When I work with the grief cycle, the thing that people respond to is the
map. They ca
Hello there,
To add to the thread on invitation, You can check out Joseph Campbell,
mythologists, work via numerous books and web
sites including http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/smc/journey/) Stages in
The Heros Journey -- interesting analogy to
invitation.
Stage I. The Departure Stage
1. Th
Harrison--
What comes to my mind reading your report on self-organizing systems and
order for free and gravity, is the little thing we have been reading about
the last week or so.
Something called Dark Energy. It is said to make up 73% of the universe and
is the force that is causing the universe
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