Living Peace- an invitation (reminder)

[Caitlin Frost]

HI Raffi,

Almost done my piece - hope to send it tomorrow.

Our daughter Aine also wants to submit something.  Hope that is ok.

Thanks for doing this.

Caitlin.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Raffi Aftandelian <raffi at bk.ru> wrote:

> Dear friends and colleagues,
>
> Two months ago I posted an invitation to the OSlist regarding an e-book
> project, Living Peace: the open space of our lives, an opportunity for all
> of us who work with OST to share how we live in Open Space.
>
> I am posting the invitation to participate in this initiative below as a
> reminder.
>
> OST facilitators from Russia, Turkey, Israel, Germany, Switzerland, US,
> and
> Canada, to name a few countries, have said they will contribute. And some
> pieces have already come in. And I am absolutely delighted that OS'ers
> both
> new to the practice and those who were around from the very beginning (the
> Big Bang of 1985?) have contributed or intend to contribute.
>
> I am extending the deadline to March 1st.
>
> To give a feeling for the style in which this book will be illustrated,
> you
> might want to visit
>
> http://picasaweb.google.ru/dyomka/AtYkNH?authkey=h0K3uQIse9U
>
> Vera "Dyomka" Vakulenko, a Moscow friend of Open Space will be doing the
> illustrating.
>
> enjoying the recent threads,
> warmly,
> raffi
>
> "I don't mind dying. It's just that I don't want to be around when it
> happens."
> --Woody Allen
>
> "I don't mind living. It's just that I don't want to be around when it
> happens."
> --overheard from a butterfly conversation between Op N. Heart and Woolly
> Adden
>
> ******************************************************
> Living Peace: the open space of our lives
> An invitation
>
>
> November 18,2007
>
>
>
> We are writing you to invite your contribution for an e-book, tentatively
> entitled Living Peace: the open space of our lives. OST facilitators from
> around the world, experienced and people new to the practice, are being
> contacted for this project.
>
> Harrison's last book was The Practice of Peace. It was a thoughtful,
> playful, compelling, and engaging invitation to consider that the everyday
> practice of Open Space in organizations is the practice of peace. If that
> is
> so, then perhaps, taken together, those who work with OST have something
> to
> offer the world about living peace on a day-to-day basis?
>
>
>
> There have been many conversations about the personal practice of open
> space, but to our knowledge this has not been captured as a book. Chris
> Corrigan and Michael Herman have elaborated an invaluable perspective on
> that practice. And I credit them, Wendy Farmer-O'Neil, Birgitt Williams,
> and
> Harrison Owen as inspiration for this book.
>
> This book aims to deepen the conversation about the personal practice of
> Open Space.
>
> For the book, we'd like to invite you to answer one question:
>
> "What is your practice of Open Space?"
>
> This is an inquiry into how each of us bring open space into our lives,
> how
> we live Open Space.
>
> In addition, you are invited to submit resources for a resource section at
> end of the book on practicing Open Space in life. We welcome any materials
> you see as valuable in deepening the personal practice of Open Space.
>
> A maximum length of two pages for each contribution is suggested, and this
> is more of a guideline than a hard and fast rule.
>
> We'd like to ensure a broad representation of voices in the book, both in
> terms of perspective, experience, and geography. This invitation will also
> be posted to English-language OSlist and other OSlists around the world.
>
> If you have any particular suggestions of people who should be contacted
> to
> participate in this initiative, let me know!
>
> If you think you will be able to make a contribution, please email Raffi
> at
> raffi at bk.ru (or raffi_1970 at yahoo.com). We'd like to receive submissions by
> February 1, 2008.
>
> Your piece can be anything that can be presented on a printed page, a
> story,
> an essay, a parable, a word, a sentence, a picture, a diagram, anything
> that
> can convey on paper what you understand your practice of Open Space to be.
>
> If you'd prefer to share your practice of peace in a telephone
> conversation
> that can be later transcribed into text, we'd be more than happy to do so.
>
> The book will be made available for free online. Perhaps at a later point,
> it might be available for sale in print form, in which case a significant
> (50% at least) of proceedings will go to support the spread of OST around
> the world.
>
> Vera "Dyomka" Vakulenko, a Moscow artist and community activist who
> designed
> the Open Space on Open Space XIV logo and brought much spirit to that
> conference will be illustrating this book.
>
> We intend to publish the book in both English and Russian. If you can
> circulate this invitation in other languages, it'd much be appreciated.
>
> Your thoughts, questions suggestions and collaboration in this project are
> welcome!
>
> If you can submit something for this book, please let us know by email!
>
> Respectfully and in appreciation,
> Raffi Aftandelian
> Vera "Dyomka" Vakulenko
>
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May the beauty we love be what we do.
Rumi

CAITLIN M FROST
Facilitation, Project Management, Coaching
Principal - Harvest Moon Consultants Ltd.

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