open space and synchronicity

Sat May 27 02:32:37 PDT 2006

I am interested to know if people find  the  practice of open space  
gets supported for you by synchronicity experiences? Here's mine for  
the week. In january i did a two day open space event for the theatre  
community here in london and as i reported on this list had a great  
time. On the morning of the second day i bought a copy of my usual  
newspaper the independent. On the front cover was an enormous FULL  
PAGE picture of a beautiful blue butterfly with an article about  
climate change and saying this particular blue butterfly was an  
endangered species in the uk. This week I Facilitated my second open  
space event for a "The Producers forum" .. a community of producers  
working in the arts here. Yesterday on the morning of the second day  
i went in and as usual bought my  copy of the independent  
newspaper.... on the cover was an enormous FULL PAGE picture of..  
yes  A bumble bee saying three species are extinct and more  
threatened by new farming methods suggestions given to help save  
them.  I am almost spooked by how personal this message seems to be  
in its timing and how insignificant it may seem to anyone else. When  
the universe speaks through open space it has much more elegant ways  
than email!

Great open space event by the way!

Best wishes

Phelim

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Phelim -- Synchronicity seems to be a common bed-fellow with OS, but I can't
recall anything quite as in-your-face as your stories. Without getting into
an arcane discussion of cosmic net, connections and mysterious forces (all
of which I am sure are operative) it seems to me that one way of
understanding the phenomenon is to notice that in Open Space somehow our
senses (all seven or eight of them) go on high alert. We then notice a lot
of things that ordinarily pass us by without a trace. To me the wonder is
not so much the perceived synchronicities but rather the heightened
perception. I suppose one might explain some of this in terms of what the
Buddhists call Mindfulness -- but real mindfulness is typically only
realized after intense Practice. Which might then suggest that OS is then
some form of a collective Practice . . .? And what do you have to say about
that, Mr. Chris Corrigan???

Somehow related to all this is the experience I have had on multiple
occasions where the weather (rain, sun, snow, clouds etc.) seems to mirror,
or possibly occasion, the moods and happenings in an OS. My sense has always
been that in some rather remarkable way the participant group was in strong
alignment not only within itself, but also with the world around it. I don't
know how you would ever measure or prove this, but it is a curiosity.

Harrison

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Subject: open space and synchronicity

I am interested to know if people find  the  practice of open space  
gets supported for you by synchronicity experiences? Here's mine for  
the week. In january i did a two day open space event for the theatre  
community here in london and as i reported on this list had a great  
time. On the morning of the second day i bought a copy of my usual  
newspaper the independent. On the front cover was an enormous FULL  
PAGE picture of a beautiful blue butterfly with an article about  
climate change and saying this particular blue butterfly was an  
endangered species in the uk. This week I Facilitated my second open  
space event for a "The Producers forum" .. a community of producers  
working in the arts here. Yesterday on the morning of the second day  
i went in and as usual bought my  copy of the independent  
newspaper.... on the cover was an enormous FULL PAGE picture of..  
yes  A bumble bee saying three species are extinct and more  
threatened by new farming methods suggestions given to help save  
them.  I am almost spooked by how personal this message seems to be  
in its timing and how insignificant it may seem to anyone else. When  
the universe speaks through open space it has much more elegant ways  
than email!

Great open space event by the way!

Best wishes

Phelim

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