ITS OVER WHEN THE BOSS SPEAKS...

[Julie Smith]

Bernhard and All,

Thank you for this discussion.  This idea of social trance..... I've
seen it somewhere before, but can't quite remember where.  Thanks,
Bernhard, for explaining how OS helps us leave that trance-state for a
little while.  That is a very useful concept for me.

I'm also intrigued by your idea about closing the door you've opened.
You said:

> Closing the opened doors
> (e.g. to that temporary 'counter-trance-room' which had been
> facilitated by me applying OST but had been materialized by all)
> seems of growing imporance to me.
>
> And if it is just my gesture of going out of one room and entering
> another one through a door which I close.

A few years ago I learned a bit about circle processes from a First
Nations gentleman from British Columbia.  He always opened the circle
with a prayer, and always closed the circle with a prayer.  The opening
was an invitation to the Creator to join us, and the closing was
thanking the Creator for sharing that time with us.  The closing also
released us back into our normal states of being.

Most of our time together took place between the opening and closing.
That time together was sacred because the Creator and been invited and
was therefore present in a more conscious way than we were accustomed
to. It felt like we all moved up in our consciousness during the time
between the opening and the closing.  That individual and collective
shift helped us think and behave differently.

For this person, opening a circle process is always expressly about
opening sacred space.  Because this is significantly different from our
collective normal state, it is equally important to close that space.
The closing signifies a release back to our normal individual states of
being.

Julie

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>From  Thu Apr 25 23:32:48 2002
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Jeff Aitken schrieb:

> ...... described my role.......

yes description is important. description is much better
than a fixed term, much better than a brand.

description needs to describe within the context
relating to the process which is involved and intended.

some weeks ago I decided to design a new business
card for to communicate

I say what i´m doing, I don´t say what I am.

i call it in german
"begleitung im wandel"
which may be translated as
"companionship in change"

which is saying as well
"I work as a companion"
as "the companion himself
is moved within change".

I have to descibe the meaning everytime
when I offer my business-card.

the card is surrounded with 4 sentences:

nur umwege fuehren zur loesung
only detours are leading to a solution

es gibt nur umwege
there are nothing than detours

alle wege fuehren zu einer loesung
every detour leads to a solution

es gibt nur eine loesung
there are only one solution


best regards from my openspaced heart

florian

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florian fischer
begleitung im wandel
muenchener 6
10779 berlin
fon 0049.30. 2116752
fax 0049.30. 2115943
info at ff-wey.com

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