Re: [OSList] trainings on NON-VIOLENCE

2012-01-16 Thread Pat Black
minimize damage as anything else. We can bring peace to the discussion of rebalancing outdated power dynamics but we can't guarantee those holding power will be agreeable to the redistribution efforts. Pat Black On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Birgitt Williams < birg...@dalarinternational.co

Re: [OSList] the occupy wall street library

2011-10-18 Thread Pat Black
They have many of the books you mentioned at Occupy MN. I just brought my copies down and left them there. Make a donation to Occupy Dan Diego. Pat On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Raffi Aftandelian wrote: > folks, > when i read this new yorker > piece

Re: [OSList] occupy Open Space?!

2011-10-10 Thread Pat Black
> > www.openspaceworld.com > > www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST > Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > ** ** > > *From:* oslis

Re: [OSList] occupy Open Space?!

2011-10-09 Thread Pat Black
IST > Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > ** ** > > *From:* oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto: > oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] *On Behalf Of *Pat Black > *Sent:* Sunday, October 09, 2011 4:47 PM >

Re: [OSList] occupy Open Space?!

2011-10-09 Thread Pat Black
The energy is intense and full of possibility. There are lots of sentences that include the word space and that is exciting. I am hoping to spend a lot of time out there. They are going to create something akin to an agenda wall with the causes that have brought people there. Pat Black On Fri, O

Re: [OSList] movie title

2011-08-02 Thread Pat Black
What the Bleep Do We Know? ? On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:36 PM, lisa kimball wrote: > Does anyone here remember the title of a movie where a bunch of people are > wandering around talking about quantum notions, new physics, spirituality > et > al? > > -Original Message- > From: oslist-boun.

[OSList] An Invitation For Discussion

2011-04-30 Thread Pat Black
self to manifest our ties to whole. Blah Blah Blah you get the point. Thanks for the chat. Pat Black 2011/4/30 Harrison Owen > Being the lazy sort I am simply forwarding my response to Suzanne - which I > had re-titled, "Invitation for Discussion. And Suzanne, thank you for comin

Re: open space and heros

2010-11-29 Thread Pat Black
Fear 1 the more open the process the more open space possible Fear 2: Instruct in the intro that that they are just announcing the session in a few words and you hold the mic for all of them. Pat Black On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:12 AM, christine koehler < chris.alice.koeh...@gmail.com>

Re: Fwd: [ITP] Perception

2010-10-10 Thread Pat Black
Thanks for this Denise. All I can say is yes and Amen Pat * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listse

Re: Youth Leaders

2010-10-10 Thread Pat Black
be in the role of creator. My experiences of it have always been really exciting and lovely. It has been a great discussion Pat Black On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Denise Tennen wrote: > Thanks you Pat, for this clear articulation. It feels just right to me and > links directly to my

Re: Youth Leaders

2010-10-09 Thread Pat Black
me herself through the sea and if you deny her the sea you deny her herself. I am just saying it is for the child to chose the direction and the speed and the adults to do what they can to facility the possibility. Pat Black On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Tree Fitzpatrick < therese.fitzpatr...@

Re: self organized learning

2010-09-24 Thread Pat Black
, change your options, view the archives of > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > > > *From:* OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] *On Behalf Of *Pat > Black > *Sent:* Friday, September 24, 2010 11:48

self organized learning

2010-09-24 Thread Pat Black
Here is a link to a TED talks video that describes open space learning. It is pretty fascinating. Pat Black http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu

Re: Hosting and holding space

2010-07-07 Thread Pat Black
Interesting question Wendy. The difference between hosting and holding space is where my attention goes. Holding space by attention is only on the space and what it requires. In hosting I attend to the beings inside the space and what they need to thrive in the space. Pat Black On Wed, Jul 7

Re: Computer mediated OST-like events (was: Re: [OSLIST] OST + wiki = ProjectWiki)

2010-06-11 Thread Pat Black
Artur I am interested in other tools that offer more to the OST process Pat Black On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Artur Silva wrote: > Hello everybody, > > > > Yesterday was holiday in Portugal (the "Day of Portugal", btw), so I have > been able to read *all the po

Re: OST + wiki = ProjectWiki

2010-06-08 Thread Pat Black
Robert I totally agree that wikis and other technologies are no replacement for face to face and can't have the powerful effects of relationship building that the face to face experiences have. What they are great at is allowing for those conversations to continue once there has been a face to fac

Re: OST + wiki = ProjectWiki

2010-06-07 Thread Pat Black
And probably working with school kids is realy good > project to use wiki. > > Best regards. > > Danilo > > Pat Black pravi: > >> I've used wikis with open space with students and teachers. We used the >> wiki for kids from different classes to have o

Re: OST + wiki = ProjectWiki

2010-06-01 Thread Pat Black
I've used wikis with open space with students and teachers. We used the wiki for kids from different classes to have ongoing conversations with each other about a joint project. They were exploring ways that nature creates sculpture in their school forest and how they could have a conversation wi

Re: Where did 2 1/2 days come from?

2010-04-04 Thread Pat Black
plete conversation in clay takes at the very least 2.5 days if you are lucky and nothing blows up in the kiln. I think other mediums and genres have the same limitations. What I love about 5 days is that it is enough time for you to forget that there is another world that doesn't work in open space

Re: did you get lisa's original message?

2010-03-06 Thread Pat Black
I found you Lisa or you found me or we found each or something Pat Black On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Lisa Heft wrote: > Hi, folks - I'll try to reply to Michael's email to the list and see if > this gets posted. > > Previously to this problem period I had received an

Re: did you get lisa's original message?

2010-03-05 Thread Pat Black
I did get Koos post but not Lisa's Pat Black On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Michael Herman wrote: > i'm with all of those who saw koos and others reply to lisa's message, > but didn't actually get it. > > i was going to ask who actually did get that message, bu

Re: re honouring each other

2009-11-29 Thread Pat Black
Thanks for this Michael. It resonates for me. Pat Black even harrison has told stories about the places where he first learned this > piece or that piece of what became the practice of open space. discovered > not invented. > > that's what i think really distinguishes this con

Re: Bullying and OST

2009-11-05 Thread Pat Black
them to address (read stop) the behavior. They need to be reminded to believe in the process and take themselves where they have passion and commitment. Groups whether they are filled with adults or children can be very volatile when they are in extreme reaction to some belief or experience. Pa

Re: Ways of Capturing Conversations among professional dancers and people concerned with dancing

2009-08-25 Thread Pat Black
te about what is present. Judgement is easily threshed from the seed of experience and yet there is space for personal responses as well. Lisa is very skilled and an all around lovely person. Hope that is is possible for you to connect. Pat Black On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Spark (Sta

Re: list etiquette

2009-06-15 Thread Pat Black
sensible that preference is, it is still a preference. People prioritize their preferences by different needs. For me it is important to leave space for lots of different dances. I learn new steps that way. Pat Black On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Esther Ewing wrote: > Hi all: >

Re: Lisa's ideas

2009-05-30 Thread Pat Black
Dear Lisa,I always feel so blessed to be a witness to your wonderings. The journey always feels like a kayak ride. Pat Black On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Lisa Heft wrote: > Hello, dear colleagues - > I just dropped in to the Obama administration site inviting ideas for > coll

Re: Necessity of space

2009-05-22 Thread Pat Black
I think of the between space as the permeable membrane. The shape of the membrane, the spaces within the membrane change and are different depending on what is happening on either side of it. It is constantly transformed by the communication of its bordering spaces. These spaces are changed by t

Re: I like to organize an OS about maintaining the local playground by the local people.

2009-05-10 Thread Pat Black
e had people sharing space but they were not a community and did not share language or perspective. Good luck with your project. Pat Black On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Peggy Holman wrote: > Hi Kári, > > I'm catching up on my reading and didn't see any responses to your questi

Re: Necessity of space

2009-05-07 Thread Pat Black
Amen.Pat Black On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Brendan McKeague wrote: > beyond knowing, beyond words...this poem speaks to me of such a > space...cheers Brendan > > *Learning to pray without words > *by Fredrick Zydek > > You must turn away from the speech center > until the desire for languag

Re: looking for OS practitioner in Philadelphia area

2009-05-05 Thread Pat Black
Well said Lisa Thanks Pat Black On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Lisa Heft wrote: > John and others - Thank you so much for opening us to this important > conversation. > > Something I think we all share - as facilitators experienced in working > with groups (comprised of individ

Re: Open Space Technology as a community development tool

2009-05-01 Thread Pat Black
Amen Harrison.Pat Black On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Harrison Owen wrote: > Daniel -- I think you may be sorry you asked that question as the response > level is likely to be a little overwhelming. And if it is not, the reason > is > that folks are out doing Community Development, otherwise k

Re: A robot powered by open space

2009-04-12 Thread Pat Black
help we are getting trying to find the kids because much of it happens outside our view and there are no reports on it. The little video is a great reminder of how much people have invested in the safe return of the kids.Thanks again Pat Black On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Phelim McDermott wrote

Re: Social Networking

2009-03-30 Thread Pat Black
Thanks for this post Ralph. My experience with the platforms mentioned is similar to yours. I have a couple of additional questions though especially reflecting on Holger's reflections people's initial reaction to cell phones. I share your perspective that Twitter and other types of these social

Re: help

2009-02-13 Thread Pat Black
wishes to you and your family, > Allison. > > On 14/02/2009, at 3:32 PM, Pat Black wrote: > > Dear list > I am not sure all will find this an appropriate use of the list and to > those who don't I apologize. I am desperate and need help and so am casting > a wide net in hopes

help

2009-02-13 Thread Pat Black
d. If you feel like you want more information before you want the poster you can contact the Saint Paul Police Department and talk to them about it. The case number is 09026500 and the children's names are Maya and Rojo Espinosa. And again my apologies for using the list in this way.

Re: World March for Peace and Nonviolence

2009-01-03 Thread Pat Black
I am interested in doing this and I am in St Paul / Minneapolis Minnesota. Let the Skyping begin. Great idea Raffi.Pat Black On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Raffi Aftandelian wrote: > Dear friends, > > A happy new year to all. > > One of my favorite lines in the User's Guide is something about

Re: Sharing with you the joy of a next milestone

2008-12-02 Thread Pat Black
GabrielaMany joyous congratulations to you and your dedicated work. I raise a glass of thanks to you for your vision, passion and hard work. I hope your dreams manifest in ways that you never dreamed possible. Pat Black * * == osl

Re: Hunger

2008-10-24 Thread Pat Black
world in be directly related to militarization intended to bolster and grow an economy to accommodate unsustainable and unquenchable appetites for more things. These are questions and they frame my thoughts on where to enter in. Pat Black On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Michael Herman wrote

Re: just wondering

2008-10-02 Thread Pat Black
> > I'm curious to know what you mean by that. > > Thanks, > > Jack > > Jack Martin Leith > Creative activist > Bristol, United Kingdom > Mobile: 07831 840541 (+44 7831 840541) > Skype: jackmartinleith > email: j...@jackmartinleith.com > www.jackmartinleit

Re: just wondering

2008-10-02 Thread Pat Black
One of the principles used to describe the why and the how of OST is self organizing systems. This is, in my opinion, the core of why OST works. Everything in creation with the possible exception of hydrogen is self organizing. Self organizing systems are self sustaining by definition or they di

Re: books about being human?

2008-09-01 Thread Pat Black
first teaching about creating the world you want to live in and how to do that Pat Black * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives o

Re: Barack Obama team using OS. How about that?

2008-08-13 Thread Pat Black
be a member > of the community. > > So can you give me some idea of how the Alinsky model has gone from > coming from "inside the community" to working outside of self > organizing? (Realizing that Alinsky was just a little iconoclastic.) > > Thanks! > >

Re: Barack Obama team using OS. How about that?

2008-08-12 Thread Pat Black
allows the community itself to form the agenda and provide the expertise. Pat Black On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Pavel Tsarkov wrote: > I knew, that it will be the answer, Michael. It is not OS, of course. But > here they trying to do smth different from others, they want to hear people

Re: Going underground as facilitator - Follow-up

2008-07-16 Thread Pat Black
metimes we disengage before we get there if there isn't a facilitator.Thanks for the thoughtful questions. Pat Black On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Marc Steinlin (I-P-K) wrote: > Dear all, > I had asked you for your feedback and input almost 2 months ago on "going > underground&quo

Re: help 50 000 baloons and OS Turkey

2008-05-21 Thread Pat Black
The issue with latex balloons, which are biodegradable, is how long they sit around before they are released. If they are filled properly and released right away they will soar high enough into the atmosphere to shatter into very small pieces which will be consumed by microorganisms upon landing.

Re: Heroine's Journey and OST

2008-03-28 Thread Pat Black
There is a book called the Heroine's Journey, sorry I can't recall the author and can't put my hand on the book right now. It is organized according to archetypes and that may be similar to the Hero's Journey organization. My distant memory is that the archetypes are reflected through a woman's l

Re: Poetry Contest Voting to Commence :)

2008-03-10 Thread Pat Black
#2 3 dots#8 2 dots 2008/3/10 Karen Sella : > Greetings All, > > > > Behold! The muses have spoken! It is time to vote on the poetry > submissions for our most recent 2008 Poetry Contest to determine who will hold > the title of Poet Laureate for the next six months or so. You each have * > 5*

Re: Nutrient beginning

2008-02-14 Thread Pat Black
self" to emerge. It is in this way the essence of love in its most basic form Interview with Maturana: "Love is the domain of behaviours through which another arises as a legitimate other in coexistence with oneself. Love is an emotion constituting a certain space in which relations o

Re: Philosophical Question

2008-01-22 Thread Pat Black
meone else. Pat Black On 1/20/08, Martin Boroson wrote: > > > > > Dear all: > > > > I have a couple of philosophical questions about the concept of a "stable > nutrient environment." According to Stuart Kauffman, as quoted by Harrison, > this is Con

video link

2007-12-09 Thread Pat Black
been able to predict that open space processes would emerge from Africa, another example of fractal expression. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n36qV4Lk94 Pat Black * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To

Re: The Ways Ensemble and Open Space

2007-10-20 Thread Pat Black
/understanding. It > isn't enough! Sensing with heart, spirit, and no doubt other ways is as > important. The arts help with that, methinks. > > Peggy > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Pat Black" > To: > Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 9:43 PM

Re: Harrison in Rome/challenging circles

2007-10-18 Thread Pat Black
gmail.com > > Subject: Re: Harrison in Rome/challenging circles > > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > > > > Hello Niko > > Open Space can be found at Microsoft. My nephew opens space there and > > he has also opened space at Amazon.com. > > Pat Bla

Re: Harrison in Rome/challenging circles

2007-10-17 Thread Pat Black
Hello Niko Open Space can be found at Microsoft. My nephew opens space there and he has also opened space at Amazon.com. Pat Black On 10/17/07, niko lebel wrote: > > Harrison, > > very interesting that open space is already in Europe, Thank you for > confirming that for me..

Re: Join us live today for an Open Space on comunity art and engagement

2007-10-14 Thread Pat Black
. There are 10 people in the ensemble right now and they include dancers story tellers, spoken word poets, a visual artist working with projected images and musicians. Pat Black On 10/14/07, Peggy Holman wrote: > > > Hi Harrison! > > Your message ties two themes currently under dis

Re: the meaning of space for you

2007-09-18 Thread Pat Black
g to you? emergence of new / surprise Pat Black * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.ed

Re: The challenge of "luminaries"

2007-08-21 Thread Pat Black
If I make the judgements I will not know who is in front of me nor how to best keep space open so they can walk through it. Pat Black On 8/21/07, R. Duff Doel wrote: > Hi All, > > In my experience, the only people who have a problem with working in a > circle are those who demand that

Re: The Emergant (used to be RE: hierarchy and things)

2007-07-17 Thread Pat Black
Harrison wrote As part of that conversation I would point out what seems to me to be a puzzle in our >thinking. We continue to talk about "design" and "organizing things" – which is quite >understandable since that is what we have always done. And yet in a self organizing (Open Space) world bot

Re: hierarchy...was report from the field

2007-07-15 Thread Pat Black
ity that others don't for sure. But inside an ensemble that has improvisation as its identity it is always possible for any of the players to channel the music's voice and reponse to the question Pat Black Harrison wrote, "I think Kaliya is absolu

Re: doing self-organization

2007-06-01 Thread Pat Black
Peggy wrote I have been in an inquiry over the last number of months around what would it mean if we put INTERACTIONS at the center of evolutionary dynamics rather than the current approach which highlights a progression of how things evolve (e.g., evolution of galaxies, stars, planets, geology

Re: "rules" and self-organization

2007-05-30 Thread Pat Black
I would have to add one thought to Joelle's assessment of open space in these regards. I think open space not only provides opportunity to break habitual ways of thinking but does it in a way that associates that break with a success. I think that is an important component because over time if t

Re: doing self-organization

2007-05-30 Thread Pat Black
nguage, create language in way that works to that purpose? What are the implications for our language and the actual reality we create? What are all the other questions here? Pat Black * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -

doing self-organization

2007-05-25 Thread Pat Black
Thank you Harrison for the challengeing discussion. Part of what I love about it is that at the end these divergent paths will deliver us to embracing the same process. We are dancing around the same spiral observing different aspects of it. And I am thank for all opportunities to find partners

Re: doing self-organization

2007-05-24 Thread Pat Black
the workings of the world as intelligent in that they all lead down a path. This view helps me to descripe the path and do specualte where it might lead. I am wondering where that kind of wondering will lead? Love to be present for this conversation. pat black On 5/24/07, Michael Herman wrote: and

Re: doing self-organization

2007-05-24 Thread Pat Black
rough a Buddhist mindfulness understanding. It is rare perhaps unheard of to have western style scientists talk about love as a manifestation of self organization and ability to have awareness of 2 states of reality. Pat Black what matters in open space, i think, is that we invite and practice two t

Re: Honeybee Die-off: Update

2007-05-14 Thread Pat Black
for the bee info Pat Black On 5/14/07, Metta & Gary wrote: At 09:38 AM 5/14/2007, Marina wrote: Dear friends, I wonder if such a threat goes also for bumlebees and butterflies? With love from Siberia, Marina Ty

Re: OSLIST Digest - 9 Apr 2007 to 10 Apr 2007 (#2007-95)

2007-04-11 Thread Pat Black
I had some trouble doing the same thing. I never figured had how to do it. Finally I unsubscribed to the list and then resubscribed latter to the individual list. That did work. Pat Black On 4/11/07, Esther Ewing wrote: Dear all: I need some advice. I tried going to the OS site to

Terrorized by terror - Space closes

2007-03-30 Thread Pat Black
of Open space as the symbol that pulls the bodies together into one. I thank you for asking the question Harrison and inviting breath. Pat Black -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Facilitation - Traini

Re: Robert's in the midst of Open Space

2006-11-11 Thread Pat Black
The consensus model for voting that you are referring to is called "Fist to Five" PAt On 11/11/06, Zelle Nelson wrote: Hi Justin, I think Chris Corrigan has proposed a great model. Chris Weaver knows of a voting model of which the name is failing to come to mind, using your five fingers to vo

Re: AW: Working with visual artists at an Open Space

2006-08-25 Thread Pat Black
in another, how to enter in. I am wondering how you envision the best way for this to happen in an open space format? What can you imagine in the open space format? Thanks for the dialouge Pat Black * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.ed

Re: OS with Artists

2006-08-24 Thread Pat Black
Harrison posted from him. Good luck. Pat Black On 8/24/06, joralt wrote: Dear Kerry So far my experience is quite frustrating as the level of skepticism in this region towards anything inclusive and open is rather high. When I search the web, there is very little activity that's going o

Re: Working with visual artists at an Open Space

2006-08-22 Thread Pat Black
es than I would be looking for spaces and tools and materials for those languages to occur in. I would also be looking to invite participants who are fluent speakers in the language who can help non-speakers become satisfied with their own expression in the language. Pat Black On 8/22/06, Funda

The Da Vinci Connection -- Open Space and the Feminine

2006-05-25 Thread Pat Black
Miriam be included. That would at least date this struggle in the balance between the masculine and feminine to that time. Pat Black * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscribe, unsubscribe, change yo

Re: whatever one says,people do whatever they want to do anyway

2006-03-07 Thread Pat Black
any way you want or not at all. You can ask for a final tuning if you wish by asking them to describe what they would have needed to see for their questions to be answered. Good Luck Pat Black * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu

The Question of Openness

2006-01-02 Thread Pat Black
come more than once. One of the great things about Bill is through his holding of space instead of management of the situation the situation resolves itself and the provocateur is always welcome as the demolition expert for those concrete walls we are all prone to building. pat black Date:

Re: opening space for the arts

2005-12-31 Thread Pat Black
magic, transforming even state bureaucracies. pat black -- Date:Fri, 30 Dec 2005 08:46:44 -0500 From:Harrison Owen Subject: Opening Space for the Arts This is a multi-part message in MIME f

Re: what's in a word

2005-12-08 Thread Pat Black
How about flight attendent because that is actually what I feel like when I am walking the circle orienting people to the room and preparing for take off when the market place opens up. Pat Black * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu

Re: New Orleans violence: conversation's role?

2005-09-02 Thread Pat Black
the person because I think that identity is embodied and precedes linguistic cognition. I thank you for raising the topic. I feel devastated by what is happening there and have to resist the impulse to highjack schools buses to take there to get people out. pat black Date:Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:3

efficacy of modern medicine

2005-08-22 Thread Pat Black
the intonations that carry your passion. Email passions do not read nor are they experienced the same way as voices are felt and interpreted in a direct sensory experience. Pat Black Date:Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:08:09 EDT From:everett...@aol.com Subject: efficacy of modern medici

Reggio Emilia and Open Space with Children

2005-08-07 Thread Pat Black
Hi Kim, You asked a) find out more about it - can anyone refer me to anything here (if and when I get time to read it) and b) post this question from a mum who feels like her experience of Open Space is far from home - How do we do it? (ie: with toddlers, 24hrs a day, at home?) I reccomment

Re: OSLIST Digest - 3 Aug 2005 to 4 Aug 2005 - Special issue (#2005-210) What are the possibilities of using Open Space Technology in the elementary school classroom?

2005-08-05 Thread Pat Black
Emilia. The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach edited by Carolyn Edwards might be of interest to those interested in this topic. There are Reggio Approach schools all of the world at this point since they have been around for some 40 odd years. Pat Black

London Calling

2005-07-11 Thread Pat Black
Masud, Chris, Raffi, Paul, Funda and All I have been reading the thread on terrorism and the London bombing and feel compelled to respond to the thread. I want to thank you all for sticking with it. Thank you Masud in particular for your response to Paul. If felt reasoned and not reactionary to

Re: test

2005-07-07 Thread Pat Black
Thanks to all who responded to the test. I was wondering if not recieving the digest for a couple of days was somehow related to Raffi's question about his inability to post was related. Yes it must just be quiet. Pat * * == osl...@list

test

2005-07-07 Thread Pat Black
This is a test. Seems odd there has been nothing posted for the last couple of days. pat * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@lists

Re: OSLIST Digest - 29 Jun 2005 to 30 Jun 2005 (#2005-180)

2005-07-01 Thread Pat Black
havn't had time to debrief the conference yet. It ended just a short time ago and the state is closed for business now but I will curious to know of other's experience this year. Mine was different than it has been in the past. pat black * * =

Being in open space every day

2005-06-04 Thread Pat Black
out of bubble soup. To our great sadness it is not as easy to find bubbles in mid-town Manhattan as one would expect so we had to stop before world peace was complete. It might be time to get back on that project. I haven't thought about that for all these years. Thanks for the memory. Pat

leverage points

2005-05-25 Thread Pat Black
Date:Tue, 24 May 2005 12:50:38 -0600 From:Masud Sheikh Subject: Re: leverage points http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist

leverage points

2005-05-24 Thread Pat Black
You wrote Masud: But to address the first leverage point: What are the paradigms of our system - the OS Network? What are the unstated assumptions?=20 I would say that the unstated assumptions of the OS network are the same as any other network that includes living beings and in this case humans

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

2005-04-28 Thread Pat Black
gorized as "political ly correct" speech. The space that sensitive and considered speech creates allows those who have experienced trauma to recreate a sense of well being so they can heal and a broader sense of community can be restored. pat black Date:Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:46:17

On conflict

2005-04-25 Thread Pat Black
you want to see in the world. It is about you understanding how you can interpret your experiences so you find yourself on the path you need to be. pat black Date:Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:22:45 -0600 From:Masud Sheikh Subject: To Raffi: On Conflict (mainly) WARNING: The poster of this note

inner aggression and the OST facilitator

2005-04-20 Thread Pat Black
nto the mix has a reason for being there and that the final flavor will be less confused or muddy if we can acknowledge the purpose. Thank you for putting yourself out there. Pat Black * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu

Red Lake Nation

2005-03-23 Thread Pat Black
older wounds. I personally feel the need to address the media assault and show solitarity with Red Lake Nation for the control they are exercising here and offer support and build healing between the community and the reservation. Any thoughts out there? Pat

Re: OSLIST Digest - 12 Mar 2005 to 13 Mar 2005 (#2005-71)

2005-03-14 Thread Pat Black
r the group. People trust themselves and can then operate in trust. Pat Black Date:Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:35:21 -0500 From:Harrison Owen Subject: Principles, Process, and People What is becoming clearer to me as this conversation moves along is that = my initial discomfort with the "

Management in a World of Trurtles

2005-02-19 Thread Pat Black
. They are closer to accessing all biological possibility because those receptor sites have not atropied because of lack of use yet. Pat Black Date:Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:50:59 -0500 From:Harrison Owen Subject: Re: Management in a World of Turtles A number of people have suggested that

Language and self organizing systems

2005-02-17 Thread Pat Black
use in the opening of space language can be used to orient us with the environment in a way that does not seem life threatening and so our surface area expands allowing for more realtionships which lead to transformation and creation. Creation is the magic. Just some thoughts Pat Black >Date:

Re: OSLIST Digest - 29 Jan 2005 to 30 Jan 2005 (#2005-28)

2005-01-31 Thread Pat Black
of creation will transformed by this art event. In more concrete terms I guess you can say that art is a spherical act of trust. Seems like all this is a good fit with open space. Pat Black Date:Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:06:14 -0800 From:Therese Fitzpatrick Subject: Re: OSLIST Digest - 21 Jan