Re: powerful poem! help me understand it.

2005-08-13 Thread Funda Oral
Dear John and everybody, I live in a city where one can see extreme cases ( richness and poorness, joy and powerty so on...) in a short distance from each other. One sees so big problems, and so strong struggle for life that sometime the word "open space" looks funny, silly and luxury. I stil

Re: powerful poem! help me understand it.

2005-08-13 Thread Harrison Owen
Funda -- I am not sure that Opening Space is such a minimal contribution to the lives of those who struggle in whatever way. In fact it may just be the only truly useful one. Physical and social resources are, of course, essential -- but the capacity to effectively use those resourses is of equa

Invitation to 2 special interest conflict groups early sepetember

2005-08-13 Thread Chris Macrae
I am proposing to trial 2 sigs I feel most passionately about, starting early september (before which time I am offline visiting family the other side of the world). The idea of a sig is that anyone can join and we regularly report back any progress to the larger virtual community you joined fro

Re: powerful poem! help me understand it.

2005-08-13 Thread Judith Richardson PONO Consultants International
Harrison wrote: When struggle reaches its ultimate stages, it seems that space just closes down and even the simplest act appears to be beyond the realm of possibility. In such moments, available resourse, meager though they may be, are often overlooked and bypassed. Opening space for such people

Re: powerful poem! help me understand it.--to John Engle

2005-08-13 Thread EVERETT813
John, Wonderful to see you again in Halifax. The event was quite moving for me on several occasions. Great that we had 12 countries represented and many first-timers from Canada as well as a few from elsewhere. The Canada OSonOS team did marvelously and I found the setting most appropria