benefits to the OST community by funding OSonOS attendance

Sat May 7 02:34:23 PDT 2005

HI all!
I just flashed on a very obvious and important consequence of having
been at OSonOS for the first time last year in Goa.

Without realizing it, since September I have told many many stories,
some of them many times to different people of different experiences
and different people in Goa.

I think the common thread that runs through all the stories is not so much
Open Space Technology but just *being* in open space.
And in a sense that has been my way of
"paying back" OSI-USA's generous contribution of travel expenses for
me last year. Sharing those stories maybe has been a way of planting
seeds (without me realizing it) about another a way of being on Earth.

To go back to the accounting metaphor and Harrison's wish that OST
become as commonplace as accounting: if accounting is about
number-crunching, then OST is about life-crunching (crunching potato
chip by potato chip on the delightful texture of the open space of
life). It tastes great and, boy, is it filling!

Warmly,
Raffi

                          mailto:raffi at bk.ru

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>From  Sat May  7 06:39:59 2005
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From: john engle <englejohn at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Update on Colombia OS with 2,000 Street Kids
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Peggy, this is great!

Thank you for sharing it.

How very very encouraging. I will certainly be sharing this story with
others.

Thanks again,

John

http://JohnEngle.blogspot.com - Reflections about Haiti, life, and our work.
http://JohnEngle.info
http://TheExperiment.info

>From: Peggy Holman <peggy at opencirclecompany.com>
>Reply-To: OSLIST <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
>To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>Subject: Update on Colombia OS with 2,000 Street Kids
>Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 00:37:51 -0700
>
>So I used wanting to send this post as a reason to get current on my
>reading.  (I hate to post without knowing what's been going on.)
>
>I just heard from my contact in Bogota. Below is Andres' message about the
>effect of the OS we did last November with the street kids.
>
>from dark (but sunny were there light) Seattle,
>Peggy
>
>
>________________________________
>Peggy Holman
>The Open Circle Company
>15347 SE 49th Place
>Bellevue, WA  98006
>(425) 746-6274
>
>www.opencirclecompany.com
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andres Agudelo" <aagudelo at tandemadr.com>
>To: "Peggy Holman" <peggy at opencirclecompany.com>
>Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:01 AM
>Subject: Andres
>
>
> > Hi Peggy,
>
> > I finally had the chance to briefly talk to Helena. The
> > changes that the process unleashed are still unstoppable. Most of the
>boys
> > have a much more responsible attitude towards their job. The use of
>drugs
> > have not stopped, but they tend to do it out of their work. Lateness,
> > laziness, disrespect are almost gone. It seems from what I heard that
>the
> > OST had a profound impact in the kids approach to their life.
> > Helena did not go into much detail, but apparently there were many
> > structural changes in the schools, and in the relationship with the
> > working
> > kids: much more respect from their bosses, and much better working
> > results.
> > Many corrupt engineers were fired (with excuses -downsizing- since
> > corruption was not opened to the public).
> > An official controlling entity recently made an evaluation: Helena
> > received
> > a 5, the highest score for her job; the woman who wanted to stop the OST
> > received a 2.
> > So, in fact, I think the OST was very useful! I have more news, I will
>let
> > you know immediately.
> > Helena sends you all her best regards.
> >
> > I hope I will be able to see you soon. Take care.
> >
> > Andres
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>________________________________
>Peggy Holman
>The Open Circle Company
>15347 SE 49th Place
>Bellevue, WA  98006
>(425) 746-6274
>
>www.opencirclecompany.com
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