so OS - Being one with the flow

Harrison Owen hhowen at comcast.net
Thu Feb 26 05:31:36 PST 2004


Truly lovely! I can’t wait for the second installment.
 
Harrison
 
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Subject: so OS - Being one with the flow
 
 
Dear friends and colleagues of the list,
 
I am very stirred up and feel compelled to share an open space that
ended last night: This is the first time I felt the endless joy of the
experienced surfers, sea gliders, or so I imagine. The fact is I am not
a very sporty person yet I adore professional, effortless performance in
any field or walk. I can not tell you how happy I am and not even know
where to start.
Up until now I was working from an internal metaphor of a midwife:
cleaning, preparing the physical space, preparing the birth-giver with
some exercise and assurance as someone who has real confidence in the
delivery process and in every birth-giver; of service, attending the
needs, remembering this is not my baby, cherishing the moment of birth
and breath.
 
For me the last two days were very powerful and precious days in open
space. 180 people (160 of them were men) from High-tech net-work
communication, an optical division of an Israeli global company,
gathered in Ashkelon right by the Mediterranean sea-shore. "Daniel's
cage of lions" by the sea…. opened way for me to extremely powerful
vision of myself as a surfer, free and joyous (great for me who doesn't
muster any physical mussel that well….). Why surfer? 
One of the participants came to congratulate for the good work :"it must
be hard to direct and navigate 180 people when you do not have a
predetermined agenda, and you did it so graciously well", he said. I
found myself pondering… and there came the glider's metaphor: "As I
worked with you I had no sense of myself as navigating or directing I
had the sense of surfing the sea: being totally there, attuned and open;
listing with love and care and letting myself be led to were it needs to
go. I trust the sea and I trust you people in a way that can be
contagious." I heard the dimes ringing in his mind as new insights were
popping. That was fun!
As a surfer, if I try to stretch this metaphor a bit longer, I love and
respect the sea, know it and trust it. I give myself and surrender to
its mysterious powers yet I am confident every ride will have its unique
life, surprises and teachings and even if it will be rough at the end we
shall all make it to the shore (usually wet and full of delight).
 
So happy to be part of oslisters' opening space!
 
I will write the OS event details later. This is the 'preview';  thought
if I will not write it immediately  in English it will never see
daylight….
 
With deep appreciation for all
Tova
 
 
 
 
 
Tova Averbuch             טובה אורבוך
34 Rabinovitz St.   רחוב רבינוביץ 34     
Holon            58672               חולון 
Israel        
               972-3-5523476 
         averbuch at post.tau.ac.il
 
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