AI, Story tellıng etc.

Tue Dec 14 11:11:47 PST 2004

I don't understand what is bothering me about these methods and discussions.
I will try to explain so that it gets clearer for you as well as for me.

We are talking here about story telling and AI for positive change..but i
keep hearing
and listening so many stories of war and conflict around me that i sometimes
find it difficult
to remember any story which makes life worth living....i am talking about
simple life
like eating, sleeping, waking up and breathing....... forget success,
positive change etc.

I guess it has been always like that, humanity had a long and sad history
till we came to today
but now we got so close to each other through information and communication
channels....It gets
difficult to explain the differences in the way we live.

Looking at the whole picture, everything often becomes absurd and
meaningless.

i keep bothering you, occupying yr space, taking yr time so at least, i
wanted to explain the reason.

Funda

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>From  Tue Dec 14 11:15:45 2004
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:15:45 -0800
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Subject: How do you get out of the way?
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Hey friends:

You know that moment when you have finished introducing the process
and you step out of the way to invite people to begin posting your
topics?

What do you all say to do that?  After years of doing this, I still
find that the hardest thing to do well.  My usual practice is to bring
back the group's attention to the theme of the event and invite them
to reflect deeply on what is calling to them right now, what topic
needs to be born or convened and then I point to the centre of the
circle and say "the space is all yours."  Then I kind of back out of
the way.

Sometimes I say "the floor is open" or something like that.  But more
often than not, it still comes off as feeling a little awkward.

So I'm curious for inspiration from you fine folks.  How do you get
out of the way?

Chris
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>From  Tue Dec 14 12:11:01 2004
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Subject: Re: Practice of Peace in Sweden--A reflection on the Issue
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For those of you mired in the un-peaceful political divide of
post-election US politics, the Christian Science Monitor has just
published a lovely guide to conversation:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1015/p10s02-coop.html

Chris

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 06:30:47 -0400, Alan Chilton
<achilton at ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> What an incredibly insightful reflection.  Thank you Chris.
>
> Alan Chilton, Halifax, NS
>
> You must be the change you wish to see in the world  -- M.K. Gandhi
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris
> Corrigan
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 6:57 PM
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> Subject: Re: Practice of Peace in Sweden--A reflection on the Issue
>
> Judy wrote::
> >
> > I wholeheartedly agree with Paul's thoughts at the end of his message.
> > I do not think peace is possible (realistically).  Whenver there are
> > humans involved, there will be personality differences and when those
> > differences become so vastly opposite, war breaks out.  I believe that
> > with a deeper understanding of our personality differences and
> > acknowledging that no 'personality type' is truly 'right' will move us
> > towards peacefulness.  I completely agree with Paul's statement -
> > "we'd best be focusing on raising our own individual consciousness,
> > tolerance level and inner beingness and forget about peace as a
> > target."  If/when everyone begins focusing on their own choices in
> > life instead of looking to blame others, we might get somewhere........but
> unfortunately, I doubt that will ever happen.
>
> I think peace is possible.  I know it because I see it.  I live in a
> peaceful community, I am at peace in my family and in myself.  Do we have
> squabbles and conflicts?  Of course.  Do these things create vicious cycles
> of conflict and violence?  No.
>
> I think perhaps that peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence
> of constructive ways of dealing with conflict.  In Canada for example, we
> certainly have no shortage of potential causes for civil
> war: the occasional separatist referendum in a province containing 30% of
> the population of the country, unresolved indigenous land rights, ethnic and
> cultural diversity.  In many other places in the world, these things trigger
> widespread violence, but not here.  I like to think it is because we are
> blessed with an overabundance of space.
> Somehow we exist peacefully together in a sparsely populated land with a
> broad political spectrum and an open democracy that embraces opposition
> rather than demonizing it.  Conflict, although it gets nerve racking at
> times, never seems to escalate out of this mushy hug of space.
>
> And I agree with Alex.  Peace is an inner art.  To see the Dalai Lama and
> many others who have sustained this art in oppressive conditions tells me
> that's it's not only possible, but highly achievable.  But I think that
> Harrison's point in the Practice of Peace is key: space and time need to be
> opened if conflict is to dissipate.  Whatever that means to you, it should
> be understood that it IS possible.  We can choose to be opening or closing.
> We can choose our systems and our cultures.  Once in a while something like
> what is happening in the Ukraine takes place.  What is emerging on the
> streets of Kiev is not peace (in fact it might result in more conflict in
> the country, I don't know) but it IS an opening.  It is hundreds of
> thousands of people calling for opening.  And in that space, the tolerance
> for conflict wanes and peace grows.  Not tonight or even next year, but in
> the long term, on the scale of human change.
>
> Holding space is having peace.  Not easy, but possible.
>
> Chris
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