Taking a Nap

Mon Jan 31 05:14:46 PST 2005

About this:

check the net for the Zeigarnik effect - our mind
tends to concentrate on unresolved tasks (that's why
when we go to sleep with something unresolved we wake
up with a solution).

check also for "hypnagogic states": The brief
transition between wakefulness and sleep we experience
each night has been known by many names: the
‘borderland state’, the ‘half-dream state’, the
‘pre-dream condition’. Its technical name is the
hypnagogic state and, along with dreaming, it is one
of the most fascinating altered states of
consciousness we can experience without the use of
drugs.

Greetings,

Johann Borquez Bohn
OST Practitioner - CHILE

--- Henri Lipmanowicz <henri.lipmanowicz at verizon.net>
wrote:

> Harrison,
>
> Thanks for the lovely thoughts you sent our way.
> Here is another angle on
> the same theme. During the day both our bodies and
> minds take a beating and
> a number of "things" get damaged, hurt or
> discombobulated.  If you think of
> sleep as a time of repair, re-ordering,
> re-patterning, re-connecting,
> re-synchronizing, it makes eminent sense that new
> thoughts would emerge. I
> personally think this can be to some extend
> cultivated by extending one's
> daydreaming (half awake, half asleep) time, a time
> when unconscious thoughts
> can be sort of listened to consciously. It is for me
> like "letting go of
> thinking" in that it seems to be happening by itself
> and I am like a
> spectator. In any case I find it fun. As I travel
> quite often overseas, jet
> lag increases my opportunities for this neither nor
> state. That's about the
> only positive thing I can say about jet lag!
>
> As we get older we must in any case find more
> reasons to justify the
> productivity of our naps...
>
> Henri
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]
> On Behalf Of Harrison
> Owen
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 8:22 AM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Taking a Nap
>
> Mikk and Funda - -
>
> I never really thought about it, but it may be (as
> Mikk suggests) that
> taking a nap is more than an accommodation to my own
> needs. There is no
> secret as far as I am concerned that by the time I
> have gone through the
> opening of the space, I am pretty well bushed. I
> start a lot earlier than
> the participants with some quiet time for myself
> (meditation), come into the
> room way before anybody else just to get the feel
> and sense of the place,
> and then of course there are all the complex :-)
> practicalities to take care
> of like magic markers and Post-its. Once all that is
> done a whoosh of
> energetic anticipation erupts, groups form, lots of
> chaos -- and then
> (usually) silence if everybody has gone to breakout
> rooms. I am just plain
> tuckered out and a nap, or definitely a long quiet
> walk, is the only option.
> Certainly seems like the right thing to do.
>
> But I can see Mikk's point. It is all about letting
> go and opening up some
> more space as well. In order to take a good nap --
> you just have to let it
> all go. Otherwise you just toss and turn, and the
> nap is useless. And by
> physically removing myself, more space inevitably
> opens. For anybody who
> thought I was going to take charge, my absence puts
> that silly notion to
> rest. Of course, there have even been times when I
> had no (other) place to
> go and found a quiet corner in the main room. Talk
> about sleeping on the
> job!
>
> There may be something else here as well. I have
> noticed over the years that
> my most useful thinking seems to take place when I
> am asleep. (Don't laugh!)
> Given a real knotty problem that is going nowhere
> near solution -- I find
> that the best thing to do is "sleep on it." More
> often than not, when the
> morning comes, the way forward is clearer. I suspect
> that the secret is that
> I have given my good old subconscious some space and
> time to work in --
> without all the distractions of waking state. I
> would guess that the same
> sort of thing happens in dream-time in Open Space. I
> am no longer distracted
> by all the words and externals, and have a real
> opportunity to appreciate
> the emerging possibility space the group has created
> and is busy exploring.
>
> How is that for a rationalization? But anyhow, I
> think naps are wonderful.
>
> Harrison
>
>
>
> Harrison Owen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]
> On Behalf Of Mikk Sarv
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 5:27 AM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Re: facilitator & sponsor identity
>
> Dear Funda,
> during last OS facilitator's training I provided,
> the becoming facilitators,
> who tried out opening space for others found out,
> that just "taking a nap"
> is the most challenging, but most efficient exercise
> to get the space
> opened.
> With best greetings,
> Mikk Sarv
> Estonia
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Funda Oral" <fundaoral at ttnet.net.tr>
> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 12:12 PM
> Subject: Re: facilitator & sponsor identity
>
>
> > thank you Harrison...this is really the best job
> in the world; the
> responsibility is "taking a nap" :-)
> >
> > > Kimden: Harrison Owen <hhowen at comcast.net>
> > > Tarih: 2005/01/28 Cum PM 11:47:22 GMT+02:00
> > > Kime: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> > > Konu: Re: facilitator & sponsor identity
> > >
> > > Funda - for you Anything! Yes I think you have
> it just right. The
> sponsor(s)
> > > is the one(s) who needs the space opened. And
> the Facilitator is the
> person
> > > who does the work. This also includes taking a
> nap if I am the
> facilitator.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Harrison
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Harrison Owen
> > >
> > > 7808 River Falls Drive
> > >
> > > Potomac, Maryland   20845
> > >
> > > Phone 301-365-2093
> > >
> > > Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com
> <http://www.openspaceworld.com/>
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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>From  Mon Jan 31 09:10:48 2005
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From: john engle <englejohn at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Research on Those OST Events
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Larry, Peggy, Chris, Michael, Viv:

bravo! thank you for this initiative! what a great contribution to our
growing and evolving community.

with much appreciation,

john

http://JohnEngle.blogspot.com - Reflections about Haiti, life, and our work.
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>From: Larry Peterson <larry at spiritedorg.com>
>Reply-To: OSLIST <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
>To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>Subject: Research on Those OST Events
>Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:04:44 -0500
>
>
>
>Please join us in a World Wide Inquiry into
>The Effects of Open Space Technology
>
>We have developed research questions and materials.  The web site and
>the web log (blog) for gathering data are now up
>(http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceResearch_). We
>will start gathering in English (other language sites may emerge).  All
>of us can access the information.
>
>Our overall purpose is to increase the effectiveness of Open Space by
>deepening our understanding of it: how it is used, what it accomplishes,
>who is affected and how, as well as the underlying patterns that it
>teaches us.
>
>Many great stories have been told and gathered on the OS list over the
>years.  We want to complement those stories with some more explicit
>questions to gather information.
>
>This particular research initiative is rooted in the Toronto September
>2003 Research Conference and the Goa OSonOS in October 2004.  An ongoing
>group from the Toronto Conference developed some "Descriptive" questions
>focused on getting our clients' language and view.  At Goa an
>Appreciative Inquiry process was used to generate another protocol for
>research, and a quick version was developed as well.  We decided to try
>both kinds of questions at OSonOS and we have been working on it since.
>
>We now invite your participation.  At
>http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceResearch you can
>find the instructions.  We encourage you to go there to learn about the
>initiative and to download the materials that will help you do the
>interviews with your clients:
>
>--Informed Consent Form; You will need to get your client to sign this
>so that we are sure the information she/he gives can be used in the
>research project.
>--Context Questions:  No matter what interview approach you use, we want
>you to answer the same questions about the organization and the event.
>--Interview Questions:  You have three choices of research questions.
>You will need to choose one for your interview with your client.  Both
>the Descriptive Questions and the Appreciative Inquiry Questions have
>their own blog stream for posting information.
>
>All are provided on the web site as MS Word documents so you can
>download them for your use.  You can cut and past the responses to
>questions from your MS Word file into the blog.
>
>We believe we can gather world-wide information that can later be
>analyzed to suggest patterns or relationships between the context
>information and the perceptions and results of OST events.  For example,
>people from different sectors may use different language to describe the
>impact of Open Space.  There may be a relationship between the length of
>the event and its ongoing impact in the organization.
>
>The initial interviews we have conducted have been fun and informative.
>We look forward to reading the information that you gather and a number
>of approaches to finding patterns.
>
>We hope you will join us in this venture.  If you have any questions
>that the site does not answer, then e-mail us.
>
>Larry Peterson larry at spiritedorg.com
>Peggy Holman peggy at opencirclecompany.com
>Chris Corrigan chris at chriscorrigan.com
>Michael Pannwitz mmpanne at berlin.snafu.de
>Viv McWaters  viv at thereef.com.au
>
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