a tasty "taster" OST meeting

[Raffi Aftandelian]

Hi OSniks!

I  just wanted to write and share a "proud". Thanks to mmp for nudging
me on that score.

My  Russian friend and colleague, Ludmila  Ivanova (who was trained in
OST  thru  the  Genuine Contact program last year) and I conducted our
first  public  OST  meeting  today in Moscow. Before my experience had
been  doing  it  within  an  organization.  So, in that sense it was a
little scary.

A one  day workshop entitled "Making money doing the work you love." And
it went very well! I had the best time ever in OS.

Most   hilarious  moment:  two  English-speakers (we had intended this
to be a bilingual event, marketing also to expats) --  the  only foreign
participants  in  this  gathering  of  about 25 people-- stomp out and
demand  their  money  back  a little after I talk about the law of two
feet. Talk about be prepared to be surprised. Apparently, they had not
read   the  invitation  carefully  and  expected  something  entirely
different!

Tastiest  moment:  lunch  time. People cooed about Ludmila's salad and
the variety of goodies available.

Most  satisfying  moment  for  me  personally:  the  opening.  I  have
struggled with the opening for a while and have realized more and more
how  correctly  (not  from  the heart) I do it. After listening to how
Harrison  does  it  on a CD (Harrison you have such a great voice; you
worked in radio I bet in a previous lifetime), I  finally got a much better idea of how to make it from my center and
have fun with it. And it flowed, baby!

Learnings:  up  the  wazoo.  I  can see a lot of my mistakes. And I am
excited  about  addressing  them in the future. And these mistakes had
more to do with the quality of my being as a facilitator.

Why  was  it fun: It just flowed. And we organized it very well. And I
just  love  our  posters! And people seemed to really enjoy themselves
and got a lot our.

Happy  to  share  fotos  from  the  gathering,  including  (if  I have
Ludmila's   ok)   one  where Ludmila is conducting the closing circle.
This was her first time doing OST. I loved  how  she  did it, simple, from the heart, with passion and with
strength and center.

Some of the topics:
"I am fine where I am; I have enough money"
"A psychologist's career: how to earn the amount you want?"
"Personal presentation to potential clients"
"What do we need money for"
"What is "the work you love" and how would you recognize it?"
"What am I willing to put up with for the sake of money"
"Starting a private practice"

One  of  the things I realized is just how complicated co-facilitation
of an OST meeting is.

What  is  good *co*-facilitation of an OST? What is good team work after
the  opening?  What does it mean to build a resonant energy field with
the participants as a two person team?

Chewing on my licorice stick on this one...

On  a  side  note,  thanks  Harrison for starting the talking stick on
"What we have learned."   I will begin pondering that.

One  of  my questions is what does it say about us as a community that
nothing about OST was in JABS.

Really enjoyed the elevator speech thread. Juicy.

Or are we a community? I know this might be an
old/tired OS listserv question. Might behoove me to check the listserv
archives on that score to see where that convo ended.

Yes,  Harrison, I've been lurking lately, haven't had the time to read
everything as carefully...

People  keep  on  expecting that since it's springtime that it'll warm
up.  Well  it  ain't so, it keeps snowing, the snow piled so high that
participants had troubled finding the door to our building!

Warmly,
Raffi



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 Raffi                          mailto:raffi at bk.ru

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