Open Space Rap

Thu Jun 26 04:07:33 PDT 2003

Great stuff
Erich
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Tim Merry - Engage!
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
  Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:58 AM
  Subject: Open Space Rap

  Dear OS Listers

  Recently at Shamabhala Institute in Canada, Nova Scotia, I wrote a rap to
introduce open space.

  Toke Moller and Marianne Knuth invited me into their module on convening
conversations and the art of hosting to offer it to thier group. It was well
recieved and has given me the inspiration to offer it here! Below is a copy
of the rap ... have pics of the shambhala reading if you're interested ...

  I would love any feedback, additions, changes, break beats to put under
it, recording contracts ...

  Enjoy ...

  Tim (tim at engage.nu)

  The Open Space Rap

  Welcome to Open Space,

  This is the place

  Of a new fashion,

  You get to organise

  Around your passion!

  The  task:

  To ask

  'what really matters to me?'

  Then take responsibility

  Guided by our core question

  Which I am about to mention

  READ CORE QUESTION

  Let's get this started

  'cause this train has already  departed

  Here's the first mind bender:

  We ain't got no agenda!

  Yet ...

  But I'll bet

  in 30 minutes or less

  No stress

  That wall will be full

  And choice will be the tension

  In a packed programme guided by our intention:

  CORE QUESTION AGAIN (?)

  How to do it?

  How  to fly?

  Let me try and

  Clarify:

  If you got a workshop

  to offer to the question

  Head to the centre,

  Grab a pen and write the intention

  Or topic and your name,

  To give it some fame

  Announce it to us all,

  Then take a time a time and place

  And stick it to the wall.

  So simple

  No trouble atall.

  But here's another mind blaster:

  You do not have to be

  A master

  Expert

  Or Mentor.

  This here is a curious centre.

  If you know nothing

  and want to know more,

  Don't hold or stop

  Host a workshop!

  It's a sure

  cure

  To learn more.

  Which brings me to the principles and one law:

  'Whoever comes are the right people'

  to have around.

  They  are the ones with the passion

  For the ground

  You are hoping to cover

  Everyone else is searching in the other

  Workshops

  Serving our core intention.

  We working together

  In sperate places,

  It's a great invention!

  So, what happens if no-one comes?

  All alone.

  When was the last time

  You got to stop and reflect

  On your own?

  Especialy on something that

  Gets you out of your seat

  Makes your heart beat.

  This time is for your passion

  To bring

  Unqiue learning

  To us all.

  Honour the call.

  'Whatever happens is the only thing that could have'

  So let go of expectation

  Of what this should be,

  Set it free.

  Trust the open space form

  It holds the storm.

  'When it starts is the right is the right time'

  It's no crime

  To chat or have a cup of tea

  Be free and see

  When you begin

  Don't force it to be happpenin'.

  'When it's over it's over'

  Don't hang on

  Move on

  To where you belong.

  To fill the time gap

  It's a trap

  So get up and get movin'

  To find a space where

  You be contributin'.

  You see

  this ain't now normal meetin'

  Cause we be 'law of two feetin''

  Use your feet

  Don't just sit

  SPLIT

  To move to where you

  Learn of share.

  So be aware

  You can be like the

  Humble

  Bumble bee,

  Tripping from place to place

  And cross pollinate,

  Connecting info

  Helping collective wisdom grow.

  One other character

  Who arrives with a flutter

  Is the butter - fly.

  Who hangs out, looking good

  As a butterfly should.

  A place of still

  To stop and reflect

  Have the conversation you least expect,

  A wonderful insect!

  Some final words on

  Workshop hosting.

  It ain't all coasting!

  If you pin it up on the wall

  You responsible for that call.

  The workshop gotta happen,

  Even if you don't go

  You responsible for opening the show.

  Second thing,

  There's only two

  (PHEW!)

  Please record what is cooking

  'cause we all looking

  to see

  in gallery.

  Have no fear it is pretty clear,

  There a template set up

  for the usin',

  Now we're cruisin

  Into the final moments before

  Opening the wall

  And the market stall.

  Just to say again

  Grab a paper and pen

  Write your workshop

  Announce it to us all

  Then stick it to the wall

  With a time and place,

  Take your time

  this ain't no race.

  With no more ado,

  I Open Space ...

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Harrison Owen
    To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
    Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 1:37 PM
    Subject: Re: Is it possible to live OS?

    At 12:49 PM 6/24/2003 +1200, Mike Copeland  wrote:

      I'm finding open space has hit me right between the eyes in the last
four months. I'm taking initiative wherever I want to lately and am not
waiting for permission; wherever that was meant to come from anyway! I'm
actually doing what I want to do. Is that OK? I mean I thought I was meant
to do eveything I didn't want to do!

      The big thing is I'm not intervening anymore. Getting out of the way
is so freeing. I feel all my life I've been trained to get IN the way!
Although I do miss out on that exhausted feeling.

      I know this may sound like I'm a babbling convert here, but quite
honestly if this is living open space long may it continue.

    Sounds like you have it right -- to me. But then what else could I say
given my reply to Raffi Aftandelian (above) ? If it is true that life is all
about self-organization, as is Open Space, when you remember what you
already are, it feels great. Certainly much better than pretending to be
something you are not???? Of course, it doesn't always feel great. Sometimes
the great hooded monsters of Chaos, Confusion, and Conflict rear their ugly
heads, and things can get downright unpleasant, made even more so if we take
it as a personal insult because they are not following our plan.

    Harrison

    Harrison Owen
    7808 River Falls Drive
    Potomac, MD 20854 USA
    phone 301-365-2093
    Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com
    Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org
    Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm

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