Part three OST with children and families

[Nino Novak]

Dear Harrison and list,

At 08:46 1/28/01 -0500 Harrison Owen wrote,

> Interesting. Holding Space (keeping the space open) is not a totally
> passive activity, although it may certainly look that way.

and later,

> [...] Which is to say that each participating individual is
> receiving tons of subtle support, confirmation etc from every
> direction and in every moment from just about everybody.

So the holding of Space is an active activity ;-) .

And - if I understand you right, there are two main functions of this
(the facilitator's) activity: first, to give some sort of subtle
support/confirmation to individuals, and second, by doing so in the
public, to teach all the participiants to do the same, to communicate in
the same way, to preserve this attitude of "positive connotation"
towards their neighbours.

(Seems to me like the four principles and the law are just descriptions
of _your_ _own_ attitude towards the participating people)

I'm also noticing a deep congruity between your (nonverbal) attitude and
the given "verbal description" of it.


Greetings,
Nino

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>From  Sun Jan 28 21:51:33 2001
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Harrison Owen schrieb:

>  Healing and well functioning self-organization add up to the same
> thing.
> Or put a different way, a self-organizing system is always in the
> process of healing itself. .....
> ........As facilitators (or whatever it is that we call ourselves)
> we are only and ultimately witnesses to the process -- witnesses to
> the flow. .....
> .....food for another discussion.
>
> Harrison
>
>
> harrison,
>
> your thoughts on healing and witnessing
> are coming over like music to me.
>
> let me quote again the austrian architect friedrich kiesler
> "......any problem, big or little
> requires a great humility -
> to let it tell you what it wants.
> rather than your telling the problem
> how it should be resolved.
> it will develop from its own inner concept
> which must be listened to and understood..."
>
> listening !
> witnessing !
>
> witnessing has to do with wit. perfect.
>
> let me try to think about
> why the creator-god (if it was he, the self)
> had created the human being?
> and let me try an answer.
> perhaps the reason may had been
> only to get someone witnessing his creation,
> listening, wondering, fearful, joyful, sometimes singing,
> mostly keeping silent as an potentional echo.
>
> while the creation is going on in every moment
> as well when it´s an event between and among a quantity of human
> beings
> again there is a need for witnessing that event to get and to give
> awareness about
> the ongoing process of the creation of the universe: self-organizing
> and healing.
> ideed, we are invited to serve on that.
>
> thank you for giving that very useful catchwords
> answering to the report of chris.
>
>
> florian
>
>
>
>
>
>

>

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