While any of us yet live...

Thu Jul 21 12:09:59 PDT 2005

I recently graduated from Antioch University in Seattle where I took a Large
Group Intervention class. Peggy Holman who has worked closely with Harrison,
made a presentation on OS and I loved the potential that the process evokes.
Peggy and her colleagues published the Change Handbook that is being used by
universities to teach organization and system change approaches. It's a
terrific resource!

Be well,
Cheryl

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia Haines" <levelgreen at kaxy.com>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: While any of us yet live...

> As new to this listserv,. I have been deeply moved by the depth and
passion of your exchanges - this
> latest rif touches something I'm speaking about at a workshop this
afternoon: the promise and
> challenge of integrating personal, professional andn political. Academics
are starting to pay
> attention to the scholar/activist conundrum - but you all are providing
the framework and grounding
> for me to speak more confidently and clearly in this realm. thank you.
>
> Question: I never heard of Open Space in grad school (PhD, adult
education). How did you all first
> encounter it? as part of formal training or otherwise? I'd like very much
to introduce it to my
> adult edn colleagues, who tend to polarize as social community-based
justice v. workforce
> prep/corporate training for economic globalization. The issues we all face
at this time of
> environmental destabilization, in my view, make it imperative that this
dichotomy find some
> resolution so that we can work together.  An Open Space gathering at an
adult edn conference might
> provide a way to bring both sides to the table to explore how to achieve
such cooperation.
>
> Thanks for your thoughts - Patricia Haines
> .- Original Message -----
> From: Judith Richardson PONO Consultants International
>               <judir at accesswave.ca>
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Sent:         Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:16:37 -0300
> Subject: Re: While any of us yet live...
>
> > Lovely strand of thoughts -- thank you.  It seems to me we just do it.
Toke
> > and I and a few others offered a formal Art of Hosting in Halifax last
year
> > and at that time only a few accepted the invitation to register.
Although
> > formal hosts did not come, we still had the conversations.  Harrison and
I
> > have twice offered the Formal Practice of Peace in Halifax twice,
althought
> > few registered -- we still had and have the conversations.
> >
> > For me -- quantum physics says that energy flows where attention goes.
It
> > is a discipline I choose to see and experience where those conversations
are
> > now happening.  And I attract more and more opportunities to participate
and
> > host in them.  I choose to have them with myself.  I choose to live life
> > appreciatively -- with a firmness that also expands to situations that
are
> > more difficult to appreciate --that have the potential to step over
> > boundaries of my values.  This choice does not "gloss" over problems --
it
> > expands my perspective to be able to truly "listen" to what may be
> > presenting itself as a problem.
> >
> > I am privileged to see those conversations on this list and others I
choose
> > to participate in.  I can choose -- in each interaction in my life to
> > experience myself as love -- I have the choice to transmute energy into
love
> > in any conversation or interaction.  I have the choice to join with
kindred
> > spirits in bringing myself fully into workplaces and communities where I
> > work to truly harvest the collective voice of the group.  To draw a line
in
> > the sand that says learning, caring, laughter, compassion, precision,
> > abundance, and focus are what we practice here.
> >
> > I choose to practice living my life deliberately enough to see the
sparkles
> > in any scene that plays in my life - it truly is a practice as I shall
be a
> > student of it my whole life.
> >
> > Sparkling in Halifax,
> > Judi
> >
> > __________________________________________________________
> > Judith Richardson, MA
> > Pono Consultants International
> > Consulting and Executive Coaching
> > Optimizing Performance, Potential and Profitability
> > Winner -- International Coach of the Year!
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> >
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> >
> > If you live your life as gracefully as you know how, as playfully as you
> > know how, as kindly as you know how, as joyfully as you know how, you
are
> > bound to influence, inspire and uplift others by your example.
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> > From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]On Behalf Of Proteus
> > Communications
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:37 PM
> > To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> > Subject: Re: While any of us yet live...
> >
> >
> > Dear dear Douglas D. Germann:
> >
> > Thank you, with all my heart, for your letter below.  This question of
how
> > to promote conversation among us also burns inside of me.  I experienced
a
> > taste of what deep conversation can do last year, when Toke Moller
> > conducted, with others, an "Art of Hosting Meaningful Conversations"
session
> > here on Bowen Island.  After this session I reflected on how profoundly
> > needed this kind of conversation is...
> >
> > I experience of the art of hosting as a calling.  And the calling has
always
> > been there, within me.  Together, in this art, this gift, we support
> > conversations that are meaningful, creative, generative and deeply
honouring
> > of the wisdom and truth that each of us carries within us.  The Art of
> > Hosting Meaningful Conversation is the path to brining about a new,
> > collective understanding of what it means to be a human being on this
> > planet. It is an evolutionary tool for humanity.  The talking together
is
> > the healing together.  There is no other way.  There truly is no other
way.
> >
> > This talking together is a way of thinking together, a "knowing" of one
> > another; it is how, together, we create these new possibilities that
could
> > not emerge from just one alone.  It's in this collective gathering of
our
> > hearts and minds that I see such hope.
> >
> > I have been hosting conversations in my community, and in the workplaces
> > where I consult.
> > I ask myself, "what are the conditions needed for genuine dialogue, for
a
> > true coming together of hearts and minds?
> >
> > Since joining this list, I feel so connected to others who are on this
> > journey of healing (ourselves, one another, the planet).  We are not
alone,
> > the Life within us that calls us to connect with one another, holds us,
> > sustains us, and urges us forward, in love, "while we yet live..."
> >
> > With much love,
> >
> > Kathryn Thomson
> >
> > Proteus Communications
> > promoting clarity, compassion and courage
> > in the workplace
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
Douglas D.
> > Germann, Sr.
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 11:05 AM
> > To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> > Subject: While any of us yet live...
> >
> > To our good friends--
> >
> > We need to figure out some way to promote conversations. The
conversations
> > ought to be about the importance of conversation and dialogue, about
> > consciously getting together. It is not just that this is what interests
me;
> > it is because this notion of making evolution conscious is critical to
the
> > growth of the human species.
> >
> >
> > As we grow, there will be those who do not like it. We cannot expect
> > everyone to like the notions of peace and justice and love and
freedom--much
> > as we would like to see it, and much as we would expect them to like
these
> > things. It will take work and sweat and blood to get there.
> > It is a difficult road, this answering violence with love, and it is not
> > always easy to figure out. But we have those who have tried and
succeeded:
> > Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Buber thought it would not have
worked
> > with Hitler. Perhaps not--but nobody tried. The Jews just went to their
> > deaths with as much dignity--hidden and silent--as they could. I suspect
> > Gandhi would have been more public about it, would have endeavored to
get
> > the attention and active dissent of others who could influence the
people in
> > power. But nobody, absent that kind of call out of our cultural trance,
> > wanted to name the evil.
> >
> >
> > Today, it is our job to name the evil, to get people to work consciously
for
> > love. That is the job of conversation. If we do not converse, how can we
> > love? We must know (and I do mean to include the intimate sense) each
other,
> > and the way we have so far discovered to do that is to converse. It is
> > critical to the life and growth of the human species. If we do not, we
flame
> > out in violence and death: this is our hell. If we do, heaven awaits:
> > a heaven of work and sweat and toil and blood punctuated by joy and
served
> > by love. It is our task in this generation to redeem the evil, to bring
> > those of us back from the brink whom we can. While any of us yet live.
It is
> > our task to unfold our whole species toward love.
> >
> >                               :-Doug. Germann
> >                               Seeking people making community change.
> >
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