Re: opening space with very small groups

2006-09-19 Thread C isa Kocher
_ From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Tree Fitzpatrick Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:44 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: opening space with very small groups "I have opened space for a small board retreat " ]

Re: describing open space

2006-09-19 Thread C isa Kocher
it's true: all the description in the world cannot [C isa Kocher] : . I really appreciate the responses. Thanks. I can see there is a lot here for me to get caught up with. My academic background was linguistic anthropology. I have been teaching for the last 30 years and so

Re: opening space with very small groups

2006-09-20 Thread C isa Kocher
Again, making a huge leap: after reading for a couple of hours here and there, googling and surfing: I feel like I am looking at something like early Quaker history, William Penn and all that. My MA thesis (early 70s) was about acephalous social movements and networking. Thanks again to

Re: Clinton Global Initiative Webcast Archives

2006-09-25 Thread C isa Kocher
Thanks!: yesterday was the first day of Ramazan, so this will be excellent Ramazan reading and meditation. I'll recommend it to some friends too. Love and peace Isa [And love and peace to all for the month of Ramazan and always] _ While I know we are all quite busy, I thoug

Re: In the Silence

2006-10-08 Thread C isa Kocher
after Bassho silence so profound the sound of the cicada penetrates the rock there is nothing more powerful and enduring than quiet presence : they just gave a Nobel prize about that in physics this week Isa Kocher * *

Re: Anna Politkovskaya

2006-10-09 Thread C isa Kocher
> -Original Message- > From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Raffi > Aftandelian > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 8:51 PM > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Subject: Anna Politkovskaya > > Dear friends and colleagues, > > I wanted to share my sadness onlist

Re: Nobel Prize to Turkey tebrikler

2006-10-12 Thread C isa Kocher
MA'ASHALLAH MABRUK TEBRIKLER WOW LOVE AND PEACE AND PRAYERS FOR PEACE isa in istanbul We do not inherit it; we borrow the Earth from our children: Native American wisdom. The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it: Jean Anouilh > -Original Message-

Re: Taking Care of Yourself

2006-10-16 Thread C isa Kocher
Burnout does not help anyone. We are not required and should never expect ourselves to solve all the problems all the time and fix everything that is broken. Nor can we walk away and leave it for someone else to fix. Focus requires doing what one is doing right now. Columbus sailed across the Atl

Re: Confessions of the OSLIST Poet Laureate

2006-10-19 Thread C isa Kocher
> It is an invitation. eecummings: 1(a le af fa ll s) one l iness ~ three after Bassho: after Bassho silence so profound the sound of the cicada penetrates the rock after Bassho sound of temple gong dies down into the darkn

Meetings of minds - how technology can help

2006-10-23 Thread C isa Kocher
Maybe this is a totally off topic question in which acse I apologize: This is a news release which I have just read from a European technology information elist. This is of course NOT an Open Space document by any means. The reason I am posting it is to see the feedback it gets from everyone as I s

Re: Hooray to the tenth power,

2006-10-24 Thread C isa Kocher
mabruk, alhamdulillah, congratulations, WOW! and how!, 3 cheers, Hip Hip Hooray X 3, wunderbar!, GREAT! the good news leaves me without words to express myself: love and peace and hayirli olsun dilerim isa in istanbul We do not inherit it; we borrow the Earth from our children: Nat

Re: Define Stammtisch Please!

2006-10-25 Thread C isa Kocher
it says "the regulars' table" in German traditionally there was in the local public house, a specific place where the regulars kept their personal stein and other personal things and each place was known to belong to a specific regular. In a neighborhood bar in the USA, one always se

FW: CHAT,DIS,TNG: What would you do with a non-homogeneous class of 60?

2006-11-06 Thread C isa Kocher
The situation came up on CETEFL-L and I have made some suggestions. The email dialogue, and the questions and my answers, is pasted BELOW :-> but a little mixed up and out of context from the discussion. :-> This is the situation: A writing teacher (somewhere: I don't know where ~ who: I don't kn

Re: OPen Space collocations

2006-11-12 Thread C isa Kocher
>>> but Open > Space have at least 2 meanings (for me): 1. this is a space that is > open(ed), 2. an imperative - open (the) space! Open collocates with many different kinds of words. Open door, open question (but not wide open question), open faucet, open switch, open mind, wide open spaces, o

Re: "Failure"

2006-11-18 Thread C isa Kocher
> You're not leading them into heaven, only into an open place. if people are going to do a group activity, the most important thing is that the direction s are clear I have seen some of the world's most beautiful quilts, and there is nothing more divine and exquisite than a truly beautiful

Re: Ho

2006-12-05 Thread C isa Kocher
HU and HO in Islam and in Zen. I hope you all don't mind my being pedantic but since the topic came up I felt I should share my little bit... In tasawwuf (sufism), "HU" is both the essence of the divine and the totality of the creation the 'h' in Arabic is the sound created furthest back in the b

Re: Ho

2006-12-05 Thread C isa Kocher
I don't know why and how but this went off in the middle of the sentence while i was typing it. I guess it got bored with all my pedantry and had to escape. I was saying that I haven't got a clue about the linguistic context or meaning of "ho" in Japanese or in Chinese so I only know the practice

Re: Apologies To All

2006-12-17 Thread C isa Kocher
By far, according all the research I have read, the most effective asynchronic communication is by simple elist No bulletin board works effectively without some sort of email function. There are very good programs available for large corporations which make elists more effective but as far