Re: OS in East Jerusalem (long)

2003-11-03 Thread Carol Daniel
Dear Romy, Thanks for your words. The group is indeed very motivated and growing very nicely; after our OS gatherings they put up an Open Space Forum site and named it "The Open Space for a better Jerusalem" where they exchange ideas, plan for meetings, Q&A, and personal stories... The site is bi

Re: Fear and control

2003-11-03 Thread Harrison Owen
Meg - I find the image fascinating as well - particularly in the Open Space context. We speak about "holding space" - and the picture of that for me has always been two hands cupped - and obviously face up. If you close those two hands - you end up with two fists. Definitely not what we want. And i

Re: Fear and control (waxing lyrical)

2003-11-03 Thread Robyn
RE: If you close those two hands - you end up with two fists. Definitely not what we want. ~ (delighted laughter!) I pictured the closing of two open hands, like an almond. The result, according to a dear and wise women that I know, is the mandorla, which has become a very powerful symbol for me

Poetry Contest

2003-11-03 Thread Ralph Copleman
Poet Laureate Joelle wrote "Looking forward to see who comes." Clearly, whovever comes are the right poets. When we began this "contest" several years ago, we stipulated that all poems submitted had to be connected in some way to open space. This requirement seems to have been dropped, and I am

Re: Hungaria?

2003-11-03 Thread Dominik Ringler
Dear Agneta, I just have been in Budapest last week with my collegue Yaari and we met another collegue of ours, who also was on our ostraining in weimar this year. This is her adress Ibolya, Emese "Emi" 1084 Budapest Tavaszmezö ul. 6 Ungarn Gesch. 1: +36 (030) 4708812 Privat: +36 (01) 2104798

Fw: Fear and control (waxing lyrical)

2003-11-03 Thread Peggy Holman
Robyn -- lovely image! This conversation reminds me of one from last January called "self-organization is what consciousness (spirit) does". I pulled this snippet of mine from it: I recently was given a gift of an image around this that I've found quite helpful. A Buddhist priest attended Spi

Re: Fear and control

2003-11-03 Thread florian fischer
Am 29.10.2003 23:08 Uhr schrieb "Fr Brian S Bainbridge" unter : .. > One "wit" writes that there are three phases to change The third stage - wonder of wonders - involves> applying the very change which was proscribed - sometimes out of> desperation because . > Some reflection from a v

Re: Fear and control (waxing lyrical)

2003-11-03 Thread Harrison Owen
Michael wrote: how does one find the balance between fear/control and letting go/going with the flow? I don't think you ever will. And if you did - you would be dead. As the fellow says - when you reach equilibrium in biology, you are dead. So then what? I would guess we are all on a journey up o

Fear and control

2003-11-03 Thread Douglas D. Germann, Sr.
Florian-- Excellent way with words you have, my friend! :-Doug. * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@l