Notes from a one day OST meeting

2002-01-17 Thread Chris Corrigan
Colleagues. Yesterday I facilitated a one day OST meeting for about 35 managers of a health care authority. They are going through incredible trauma right now with the health care system in this province being decimated as it is prepared for privatization. The OST was partly a learning experienc

Re: Notes from a one day OST meeting

2002-01-17 Thread Bill Harris
Chris Corrigan wrote: > I took some notes about how I was feeling throughout the day, and offer > them to you as I wrote them. There were a couple of subtle shifts in Thank you, Chris. That is an important gift. Bill -- Bill Harris 3217 102nd Place SE Facilitat

Re: Notes from a one day OST meeting

2002-01-17 Thread Toni Petrinovich
Chris, thank you so much for sharing such an intimate, personal view of YOU. It enables and enriches us all. Toni Petrinovich www.sacredspaceswa.com - Original Message - From: "Chris Corrigan" To: Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:40 AM Subject: Notes from a one day O

Re: Notes from a one day OST meeting

2002-01-17 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
Chris-- Thank you for your personal, helpful and beautiful notes. The paragraph on silence as a gathering storm is worth the price of admission all by itself! Joelle * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To s

Re: Notes from a one day OST meeting

2002-01-17 Thread BJ Peters
Chris-- What a sweet gift to present to us! Everyone who has ever opened and held space has felt the same things as you did at one time or another. It gives great comfort to me to know I'm in such good company with the plethora of feelings that can happen. And it is so true that the process works;

Re: Notes from a one day OST meeting

2002-01-17 Thread Esther .
In a message dated 1/17/2002 2:38:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, ch...@chriscorrigan.com writes: > My sponsor > seems to be saying that people feel so powerless that they sense that > this is not a time when they can contribute anything. They want to > simply sit still and wait for things to happ

Re: Notes from a one day OST meeting

2002-01-18 Thread Judi Richardson
Chris As I read your graciously generous posting, I smiled as I have several pages of similar notes. How ever-willing that self-critic is to jump right in there just when I think I've achieved a mind free from doubt. At that point my attempt to just hold my ground requires the "inflatable sho

Re: Notes from a one day OST meeting

2002-01-18 Thread Chris Corrigan
Judi Richardson wrote: > Chris As I read your graciously generous posting, I smiled as I > have several pages of similar notes. How ever-willing that > self-critic is to jump right in there just when I think I've achieved > a mind free from doubt. At that point my attempt to just hold my

Re: Notes from a one day OST meeting

2002-01-18 Thread Chris Corrigan
"Esther ." wrote: > In a message dated 1/17/2002 2:38:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, > ch...@chriscorrigan.com writes: > > > >> My sponsor >> seems to be saying that people feel so powerless that they sense >> that >> this is not a time when they can contribute anything. They want to >> simply sit

Re: Notes from a one day OST meeting

2002-01-18 Thread Chris Corrigan
Judi Richardson wrote: > Chris As I read your graciously generous posting, I smiled as I > have several pages of similar notes. How ever-willing that > self-critic is to jump right in there just when I think I've achieved > a mind free from doubt. At that point my attempt to just hold my

Re: Notes from a one day OST meeting

2002-01-19 Thread Laurel and Rick
.) Love, Laurel. - Original Message - From: "Chris Corrigan" To: Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:40 AM Subject: Notes from a one day OST meeting > Colleagues. > > Yesterday I facilitated a one day OST meeting for about 35 managers of a > health care authority. T

Re: Notes from a one day OST meeting

2002-01-19 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
Laurel-- What you say sure resonates with my short tour of duty in BC health care (and it is not so different from US health care organizations). One friend in Vancouver, a very creative engineer, said that in his experience, hospitals were the only client tougher than engineers. I think you are

Re: Notes from a one day OST meeting

2002-01-21 Thread Judi Richardson
Chris wrote: > Funny that when walking the circle these really >tiny and subtle shifts are magnified hugely. Part of my practice, >especially as a parent, is trying to make the rest of my life be so rich an >experience as that. Ho!