communication

2005-04-27 Thread Funda Oral
Marei, Not only aggression but every feeling teaches me how important and sensible is the way we communice. Everytime i say ok now i have to communicate...I then have to find the best way to do it..the best way is when i am able to say what is correct for me (my truth) but without causing a d

Re: on OST facilitator aggression, sexism (and all other garden variety and not so garden variety "isms"), political correctness, genocide, Raffi, Therese, Paul, Masud, and other closet OS listserv f

2005-04-27 Thread Marei Kiele
Dear Lucas, you seem to be on an interesting track. Don't have time right now to get deeper in it. Probably it's somehow related with using the power of agression (because there is strength in it) to build something instead of destroying sth (even though sometimes something has to be destroyed

Deafened People thriving in OS

2005-04-27 Thread Douglas D. Germann, Sr.
Diane, Michelle, Harrison-- Not only have you extended our space, but it is possible that there is more learning and space here. A few years ago someone wrote or said that even though the population is ageing, it helps everyone if the numbers are larger on the telephone keypads and the cooking di

Re: A little help -- Please

2005-04-27 Thread john engle
Hi Harrison. Thanks for sharing about your upcoming meeting and for inviting input. The first thing after OS that came to my mind when learning about the CEO's intention was what you and others on this list hear me talk about from time to time. We call them Reflection Circles in the work we do i

Re: What a facilitator does when she holds space

2005-04-27 Thread Lisa Heft
Raffi, you wrote: Ah yes, I do remember. Those were our notes - leaves and twigs from where we sat under the tree. To post the topic I held up a blank piece of paper and just said, 'Outside under that tree at 1:30". Wonderful people came to sit with me in silence for about 1/2 hour. It was d

Re: on OST facilitator aggression, sexism (and all other garden variety and not so garden variety "isms"), political correctness, genocide, Raffi, Therese, Paul, Masud, and other closet OS listserv f

2005-04-27 Thread Lucas Gonzalez
All this writing about agression makes me want to look at it from newer perspectives, if possible. There's this framework for considering waste as a resource: "if there are 5 kingdoms of life (bacteria, fungi, algae, plants, animals) then one kingdom should never be food to itself, but only to the

Re: How will you get to Halifax?

2005-04-27 Thread EVERETT813
Doug, Joelle and I are looking at the idea of flying to one of the big cities of NE Canada (Quebec, Toronto) and driving the rest of the way just for the adventure. Maybe do some driving around the Maritime Provinces, too. And Joelle and Audrey are still planning a writers retreat. Our plan

Re: Closed and open space

2005-04-27 Thread Larry Peterson
Jack; I think you have asked a great question about the words we use and their implications - what does it mean to "open" pace if in fact all systems are really self-organizing. I think "open" is a relative word, not dualistic (open or closed). We are enabling a system to be more "open" and more

Re: A little help -- Please

2005-04-27 Thread Larry Peterson
I'm not sure you need much help, Jimbo - the image was great. The ball is dropped, and you've got to get off the pole, get the ball, and then start all over again, hopefully, this time singing, "Let it Be" It may be that when the ball is dropped, you learn how to put up a new pole, a ladder o

Learning to expand our NOW

2005-04-27 Thread Douglas D. Germann, Sr.
Harrison-- Your description of the open Now reminds me of Ira Progoff's At a Journal Workshop. Often I have mused about his "open moment" and the implications of open space. Are you familiar with his work? What do you see as the places where the two ideas inform each other?

OS Pocket Poem

2005-04-27 Thread Douglas D. Germann, Sr.
Footprints in the Wind/sm # 566 ooOOOoo oo My focus has gone out, it is hard to do words, I am simply here with you. This is love. This is life.

How will you get to Halifax?

2005-04-27 Thread Douglas D. Germann, Sr.
Hi-- How will those of you from the US be getting to Halifax? So far, I have not found any good airfares from my location (South Bend, Indiana) to Halifax--all seem to be in the $500 range. Is there another airport near Halifax that might be a good alternative? Is anybody planning to drive, take

on OST facilitator aggression, sexism (and all other garden variety and not so garden variety "isms"), political correctness, genocide, Raffi, Therese, Paul, Masud, and other closet OS listserv fratb

2005-04-27 Thread Raffi Aftandelian
Hi all! It came to me just now, Therese, the sprout from the then-ungerminated seed of a thought in the email where I apologized to you for my hurtful remarks onlist. I think there IS a place for verbally expressing sexism, etc. in this world. It would be great to become that totally enlightened

Re: A little help -- Please

2005-04-27 Thread Lisa Heft
Thank you, Therese for your kind words. And you said: I agree. And all of this mixing and matching and sharing and teaching of each other builds networks which really help the work get done better (people don't just get to know Madge in the copy room and go to HER for everything, but they meet

Re: Closed and open space

2005-04-27 Thread Lisa Heft
Jack - You ask about what it means to 'open space' if all systems are self organizing (and so . already open, no?). And a parallel thought - does that assume the space is closed before we open it. You know that I often use body analogies. You can do bodywork (chiropractic, acupuncture, massage)

Re: How will you get to Halifax?

2005-04-27 Thread Therese Fitzpatrick
Getting to Halifax. . . . The "cheapest" flight that I can find to Halifax is about $600 from Seattle. And I think it is a good idea to remember that airfares tend to go up in the summer. The longer I wait to buy it, the more the fare will likely cost. I have half decided to take the train. It

temple bells

2005-04-27 Thread Raffi Aftandelian
[warning: this email may have some too explicit imagery for some] This morning in my am meditation, I had a minor aha right as I was about to ring my tibetan temple bells to usher me into a NOW, which while expanded, very expanded, I (k)now can be even be a bigger NOW, a fatter NOW, a jumbo NOW, f

Re: Learning to expand our NOW

2005-04-27 Thread Alan Stewart
G'day All A friend sent me this, quite independently of this topic on our listserv. This gift may contribute to your learning too. With apologies for the mis-direction of my previous posting to this thread. And love Alan Hong Kong - Original Message - From: "John Graham" To: "Alan S

Re: Poem in Your Pocket Year

2005-04-27 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
In a message dated 4/25/05 10:54:37 AM, chris.corri...@gmail.com writes: Hey Doug...great idea...perhaps a role for our current poet laureate might be to convene a contest to create a poem just big enough to fit in one's pocket, perhaps relating to OST, perhaps relating to the 20th birthday and