How do you live in open space?

Pannwitz, Michael M mmpanne at boscop.de
Thu Jan 20 11:49:14 PST 2005


Now, if you would also like to get a glimpse of Tenneson, the great
story teller, go to
http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/
and click on "United States of America MDT"
and then on his name,
a picture will pop up showing him at some ocean shore in Utah.
Greetings from Berlin
mmp

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:15:08 -0700, Tenneson Woolf wrote:

>Hello to All.
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>My name is Tenneson. I am sitting in the stillness of a Utah morning, enjoying it.
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>Thank you Doug for this question. Of the many areas of practice any of us could choose, I have chosen "open space living" as one for me this year. So, I would like to share two little stories.
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>First, In December I cohosted an Art of Hosting conference near Vancouver, BC. In open space, I convened a group on "everyday hosting." My interest was about the spirit of hosting in nonformal hosting settings. Some might call this open space living. With thanks to my friends / colleagues that participated in that discussion, there were a few nuggets that I remember well. I remember the story that one told of his father passing away, and of how many people remembered him at his funeral. "He was a person that always stopped, or paused, and said "wait a minute, I wonder if there is another way to think about this?" From that story, I remember learning that everyday hosting, everyday opening of space, often begins with someone willing to pause, or to ask a challenging question. See the attached for the flipchart.
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>Second, a couple of weeks ago, my wife and I went out for dinner. This particular night was intended to create some room for us to talk about several important things that were brewing for us. Though we had several "tasks" that we could have talked about, this felt a bit different. It felt like we needed some opening of space, not just jumping to our list of todos. The wait at the restaurant was about an hour. I was kind of happy about that. We just sat at the bar, talking. There was something about needing to wait that gave the evening a tone of patience. We were in a great conversation about one of the important things for us. We were enjoying the crowd. Enjoying the Italian music. After an hour, we shifted to our table to enjoy food together. At this point, my wife shifted into decision mode -- "So what are we going to do with this? What is next?" I could feel the space closing. It was open. But now it was shutting down. I responded, "I feel we should sleep on this and see how it feels when we wake in the morning." Though this was simple, it shifted the energy dramatically. We didn't spiral into "let's get this done (so that we can move on to countless other things)!" Instead, it held the space open, the glorious big space where many possbilities exist. The pause invited celebration of the moment, an invitation to continue feeling the bigness and openness, an invitation for other energies to work within us over sleep time.
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>My personal desire is to feel the bigness and openness more often. Pause. Ask a challenging question. Belong to humanity. I'm confident that when we get to this kind of open space, all things are possible.
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>Tenneson
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>> Hi--
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>What a wonderful conversation from such a wonderful bunch of people! And
>have you noticed that many of these have been voices we do not hear here
>often?--many of you hold space for the list! Thank you.
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>Could any of you be persuaded to go into a little more detail, tell a
>story, perhaps, to help me see how to do a living open space? What was your
>day like today? Was there a time when you said, "Oh, that's what it means
>to *live* this stuff?
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>                             :-Doug.
>                             Who's making a difference?
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>"Stories are medicine. They have such power;
>they do not require that we do, be, act anything -
>We need only listen."
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