Re: [OSList] Craig

2012-09-18 Thread Brendan McKeague
I love the ritualising of story and personal/collective mythology...thanks for refreshing memory Tova When I've used a similar process, we occasionally have a bit of a 'wake' to finish off the storytelling sessionwhat people need to let go might be written down on a piece of paper, collect

Re: [OSList] Craig

2012-09-18 Thread Craig Gilliam
Tova: Thanks! I like it. Craig Sent from my iPhone On Sep 18, 2012, at 2:39 PM, "Tova Averbuch" wrote: > Because you are describing row emotions (anxiety? Confusing? Rage? ) If > it is possible I would choose to meet with few more people just to have a > better sense of what is going on

Re: [OSList] Craig

2012-09-18 Thread Harrison Owen
Totally Brilliant – and it always works. Thank you Tova! ho Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) Camden, Maine 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 (summer) 207-763-3261 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To su

Re: [OSList] Craig

2012-09-18 Thread Tova Averbuch
Because you are describing row emotions (anxiety? Confusing? Rage? ) If it is possible I would choose to meet with few more people just to have a better sense of what is going on, be more grounded and sense more clearly what is needed and what are the relationships. As for the story tel

Re: [OSList] OST Foundations again (Was:...)

2012-09-18 Thread Harrison Owen
Michael -- You raise some interesting points, but I am not really sure that the antithesis you suggest between stability and change works out the way you say it does in OST or in self organization in general. (you said: "i think if we fall into thinking that control and stability are bad or misguid

Re: [OSList] Craig

2012-09-18 Thread Craig Gilliam
Tova: thanks for your response. I like the story telling. What or how might the story telling be framed? Possibly, tell a story when you exp. this organization at best or .. . Thanks, Craig Sent from my iPhone On Sep 18, 2012, at 11:06 AM, "Tova Averbuch" wrote: > One more thing you can con

Re: [OSList] Craig

2012-09-18 Thread Tova Averbuch
One more thing you can consider , depending how much time you have , is to start with stories that want to be told. Story telling session may open the hearts, minds and flow of energy in what seems to be challenging post traumatic/stuck (?) situation. It also gives voice to every individual and

Re: [OSList] Circle of One (was OSList Digest, Vol 19, Issue 5)

2012-09-18 Thread Tova Averbuch
It is indeed incredible (and improbable) :) נשלח מה-iPad שלי ב-18 בספט 2012, בשעה 02:15, "JL Walker" כתב/ה: > Dear Tova, it’s incredible. From the beginning of this thread I was thinking > to post practically the same. Do you know that Eugene Gendlin and his > “focusing” was the theme of my t

Re: [OSList] Craig

2012-09-18 Thread Craig Gilliam
Michael: I appreciate your insight into this and the way you framed a question that gathers the direction of the 3 he poses, but moves them out of the "how to" or "yes/no" dialect and into the deeper conversation. Thanks,Craig > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:07:39 -0500 > From: mich...@michaelher

Re: [OSList] Craig

2012-09-18 Thread Harrison Owen
The question is always critical but needn't be difficult to formulate. In fact I have often found that folks who had difficulty shaping a question were often not very sure why they wanted to meet in the first place. But that is probably not the situation here. Anyhow, I would suggest something a li

Re: [OSList] Craig

2012-09-18 Thread Craig Gilliam
I believe you are on target. Part of the issue of not being abel to formulate a question as I hear it is that he is so overwhelmed with the raw emotions that he is unclear about why meet in the first place, or maybe, or he is wondering how or where to begin a conversation of such magnitude--ri

Re: [OSList] Circle of One (was OSList Digest, Vol 19, Issue 5)

2012-09-18 Thread Tova Averbuch
Dear Juan Lois, it is incredible and improbableJ, you got me curios From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of JL Walker Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:16 AM To: 'World wide Open Space Technology email list' Subject: Re: [OS