A Question about self-organizing systems and world peace

[Averbuch]

Birget,

You wrote :
"Given enough Open Space Technology, I believe
we have peace within our reach, if this is what we truly WILL."

This is one of the major things that made OST so attractive for me.
 I want to believe that if a space is oppened even a will for peace can come
about...

Peace and shalom
Tova

israel

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From: Birgitt Williams <birgitt at MINDSPRING.COM>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: A Question about self-organizing systems and world peace


> Dear friends and colleagues on this list,
> I sit this morning and offer gratitude to all of you who participated in
the
> discussion of the questions I asked regarding Open Space, world peace,
self
> organizing systems, and if it is self organizing-why do we have OST
> facilitators. Thank you.
>
> I sit and look out of our window in the pre-dawn at the circle of stones
> that 19 of us created on September 21st of 2002, joined by the energy of
> several hundred people who were not here in person. We each believe that
by
> putting our energy, intentions, prayers to create opportunity for harmony
in
> the world, that we influence the future of humanity in a way that is life
> nurturing rather than life depleting. We "opened" the space and we
continue
> to hold it. I think belief is a critical ingredient.
>
> For me, we are alchemists, working with energy. Space is not empty, not a
> void. Space is very full of energy, of Spirit. We as humans have the gift
of
> this energy. We can choose to learn to focus it, much as Bernhard said
> regarding acupuncture.  I am aware of focusing it when I give a Reiki
> treatment. I am aware of focusing it when I facilitate an Open Space
> Technology meeting. I see the energy. My job, as I interpret it, is to
learn
> about my own energy, to ensure I have no energy leakages to matters that
are
> life depleting (such as worry), to learn to work with my personal energy.
> And then to do the same within my environment-with the individual who
comes
> for Reiki, with the organization who comes for OST. With focusing of this
> wonderful wonderful loving healing energy that is all around and in us,
> humans can affect change including world peace. I think energy management
is
> a critical ingredient.
>
> The individual seeking healing through Reiki must have the will to be
> healthy and balanced. The mind/emotion mix is very powerful in creating
> reality. Humanity seeking peace must have the will to be healthy and
> balanced. Will is a critical ingredient.
>
> A key job for us as alchemists seems to be to invoke WILL, to learn to
> manage energy in life nurturing ways beginning with self, and to BELIEVE
> that all things are possible, including health, balance and peace. And to
do
> so with no attachment to outcome. Open Space Technology assists us to do
all
> of this with groups of people. Given enough Open Space Technology, I
believe
> we have peace within our reach, if this is what we truly WILL.
> Blessings to you all in this important work you do in the world.
>
> Birgitt WILL I AM S
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> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 1:29 AM
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> Subject: Re: A Question about self-organizing systems
>
> Doris,
>
> I had not read your last paragraph, before going back to your posting
> after sending mine.
>
> Your wrote there of "creating that environment"
>
> I think, the environment (for whatever system you can think, exept
> perhaps the universe as a whole, and what is this?)  is already
> there, we are "modulating" it, "enriching" it, "creating
> fluctuations" in it, "gestalting" it (p.ex. to gestalt 'temporary
> bubbles of freedom' was, what I tried to do when I worked as a
> teacher in schools)
>
> My impression is, a facilitator (or OD consultant ...) is a kind of
> temporary in-between-agent, supporting the re-arrangement of the
> system with its self, its elements and its environment.
>
> I am quite shure, that we do not create anything (separable from our
> clients, from the environment),
>
> but I even think, the way we influence is not so much the way of
> giving pills or surgery to an ill person,
>
> but the way indian food nourishes in an equilibrated way (insofar we
> are cooking advisers, giving hints to better mixtures of the subtle
> ingredients who change the taste and equilibrate the system)
>
> and/or the way homeopathy improves the general response of a person
> or animal to its inner & outer environment: it has no real scientific
> ground (insofar cou could call it a "swindle") but my brother, who is
> a veterinary would not give it to his clients, if its effects would
> only depend on a "belief-system"
>
> and/or the way "acupuncture" does not really change anything but
> opening channels, improving the flux of energy which the body
> produces and distributes in a far too subtle way to be positively
> influenced by artificial external "creations"; it is more a kick for
> the system to jump in one of its other potential realizations,
> unfolding a potential already here, but not yet fulfilled.
>
> and/or the way Aikido, Judo etc. try to come to the unity of
> body-head-and soul and then react intuitively to the fluxes and
> refluxes of energy between persons & environment and do not try to
> invest their energy against the other's, but use the energy of the
> other (system) to improve/relax the general situation.
>
> (I would be happy to learn about other metafors)
>
> so:
>
> co-creating perhaps
> but mainly beeing
> alert and present
> I think
> i feel
>
> Bernhard
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