AW: What do you do while your holding space?

2007-01-07 Thread Catherine Pfaehler
Great question, really. I have also * Taken a walk in the forest (while there was an assistant present in the plenary room) to be with the forest beings, admire this wonderful nature, calm down, get back to the here-and-now and to breathing - occasionally bringing something back to the cen

Re: Evolution, Process, and Conversation: A Foundation for Conscious Evolutionary Agentry

2007-01-07 Thread Christy Lee-Engel
Dear Peggy, Thank you very much for sending us your excellent article! These lines of yours -- On 1/5/07, Peggy Holman wrote: ... Since conversation is a primary means for human interaction, it is central to how process happens in human systems. As such, conversation is as an evolutionary fo

Re: Fw: [OSLIST] Question - using a wiki to post OS topics before Opening the Space

2007-01-07 Thread Loretta Donovan
I am so pleased with the texture and variety of responses to this question. With Web 2.0 and wikis being relatively new to many people who have been engaged in community and facilitation practice, we're all explorers and our annecdotes are starting to tell the story of "what happens". Peggy and Mi

Fwd: Fw: Opportunity for theatre artists

2007-01-07 Thread be peace
for artist who want to use their art to heal the world. please read below norak - Original Message - From: Joanna Sherman To: undisclosed-recipients: Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 1:00 PM Subject: Opportunity for theatre artists Dear Friends, Bond Street Theat

Re: Open Dance Space

2007-01-07 Thread Harrison Owen
The "secret" of Open Space is hardly secret any more. Self-organization pure and simple. So the method itself is really nothing new. Actually it is about 14 billion years old. It has always been a dance for me - the age old dance of chaos and order. Never one, never the other - always on the way. A

Evolution, Process, and Conversation: A Foundation for Conscious Evolutionary Agentry

2007-01-07 Thread Anu Parmar
Peggy, A brilliant piece of writing! I’ve been contemplating, discoursing and dialoguing about the power of conversations for sometime now, and deeply share your thoughts on this. Susan Scott's book Fierce Conversations (the word fierce is debatable. She defines it has gutsy, honest, truthful, f

Re: What do you do while your holding space?

2007-01-07 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
Ralph-- My list would look a lot like yours. I have taken walks and naps, looked out the window, written bad poetry, typed a list of session titles, felt myself holding space, watched what was going on, occasionally slip into a session in a "listening only" mode, picked up coffee cups, tracke

Re: Something new?

2007-01-07 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
Ralph-- I've been in the situation where the circle of chairs was jammed against the wall, and I'm sure your solution worked better than mine. We had the additional challenge that we were in a brand-new resort hotel, the walls had just been painted, and they wanted nothing taped on any of th