SV: The lights are on!

[Thomas Herrmann]

The lights are on!Welcome Mike! Hi Helen!
I´ve been on the journey for a few years and over here on the other side of
the globe more and more space is being opened. Although the vast majority
are still jumping the  wall:) there are more and more holes in it. Good you
sneaked out!
Regards from Sweden
Thomas

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Skickat: den 4 juni 2003 00:50
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  Hi Mike

  Here's the poem that sprung to me as I read your story.....(poet unknown
to me)

  the kangaroo jumped the wall
  the wall of the zoo
  my god that was high
  my god that was good

  With your big heart, generous spirit and the best belly laugh I've heard
in years you and OST can only journey richly together generating harmony,
wholeness, peace and fun in our world.

  Warm wishes
  Helen
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    From: Mike Copeland
    To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
    Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:39 AM
    Subject: The lights are on!


    Greetings All

    I feel I've been a voyeur of your amazing sharings and learning's over
the past three months and feel it is time to launch into cyber space with my
experience of this Open Space stuff.

    I work as an environmental educator with communities and have realised
my need for better facilitation skills for a little while now. I duly
trained in Open Space with Helen Patterson in early March this year.  Since
then I have opened space three times. Little has prepared me for the change
that is currently taking place with myheart, my head and eyes!.

    Everywhere I look I see space opening and closing!  I have a name for
that awful feeling I have when I see my contribution getting systematically
picked to pieces and given back to me in tatters; conversely I have a name
for when people truly act with integrity.

    I used to think I was a great facilitatator, could read a group, could
intervene just at the right moment, could hold it together under huge
adversity...; I can tell you I was tired!

    Big question:
    How do people survive the heirarchical structures we have out there?
    How do people live with/out open space in their own lives?

    Now I'm on this trail I really don't want to be living and working in
any other way.

    All the best
    Mike Copeland





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