What increases the likelihood of action?

[Marei Kiele]

 My dear community,

what a rich Sunday morning I had, reading all the postings on the topic deep democracy and action taking place (which has been discussed on this list a while ago but as there is only NOW I don't have to worry about being late :))).


I want to thank all of you for your sharing and pollinating! And I want to share what flower has grown out of all this cross-fertilization on my end:


Action is everything that happens - and not somebody doing something specific I have in mind
I am also thinking back to the workshop "Facilitating the Whole System" in the Room with Marvin Weisboard and Sandra Janov and their turning around a popular phrase into "Don't just do something, stand there" as a reminder for facilitators. So of course this applies for participants, too!

Invitation is all that ever works - whatever I do, I can always ask myself, does this have enough heart and meaning for me that I would also do it when nobody else is going to join me, right now? (like offering a session in an OST event) When I am satisfied with myself being the participant of my session nothing can ever go wrong.

Dream big, believe big, trust big (Peggy's "setting bold intentions") I myself have experienced starting to work on a goal and all different obstacles came up: it will not work because... on and on and on ... after quite a while another person reflected back to me, "Marei, I believe what you really want is B not just A, could that be?" And connecting with that higher intention of mine I was able to believe in me making it - and I went for it - and I made it. Amazing.

Open more space, and more space, and more space - first of all in my heart, in my mind, in my trust and faith, in my awareness - then it will naturally happen all around me, in the methods I use, in who and how I connect with - thinking back of something Harrison wrote a while ago, not "do" an open space, but be an open space. 
"Give people a possibility to live into, not an expectation to live up to." 
(Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra)


And of course, all of this is Open Space as a spiritual practice.


>From heaven on earth,
Marei

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