Space finds facilitator

Sat Sep 6 14:42:32 PDT 2008

Dear Doama,
there is an itinerary of the entire trip Harrison will be on this fall 
in Europe through Istanbul, Milano, Amsterdam, Berlin and Upsalla...have 
a look here
> http://www.boscop.org/files/Users/Michael_M_Pannwitz/Wave_Itinerary_as_of_August_22_2008.pdf

The workshop in Amsterdam will start on Thursday, November 13th and will 
last through lunch on Saturday, November 15th...unless Gerard has 
arrived at some new times (this was in a note of June 26).

Greetings from Berlin
mmp

Diana Larsen wrote:
> Gerard,
> 
> When will the workshop take place? I want to let some people know.
> 
> Doama
> 
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> Diana Larsen
> http://www.futureworksconsulting.com/get-in-touch
> 
> "Secrets of Agile Teamwork: Beyond Technical Skills" workshop with 
> Esther Derby and Diana Larsen.
> October 21-23, 2008, Amelia Island Florida
> To register: http://tinyurl.com/6fv6xc
> 
> "The Art of Agile..." workshop series with James Shore and Diana Larsen,
> Oct. 27-31, 2008, Portland, Oregon
> To register: http://tinyurl.com/6n5kbd
> 
> 
> On Sep 6, 2008, at 2:57 AM, Gerard Muller wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>> I really enjoy working in beautiful spaces. More often than not however,
>> clients have already rented
>> one, usually too cramped or sterile, without any spirit. Sometimes 
>> there is
>> a wonderful room I did not yet know.
>>
>>
>> The worst space I ever worked in was when I was opening space for a 
>> regional
>> tax office.
>> They had decided to have the meeting in their cellar - to save costs. The
>> ceiling was low,  it was a long and narrow rectangle. It had to hold 195
>> participants. I wasn’t happy.
>>
>>
>> To my surprise the problem they had to solve was so bad that it did 
>> not seem
>> to make a difference.
>>
>>
>> Sometimes I find the space I am to work in is unusual, or wonderful, or
>> both. I have worked in tents,
>> in barns, in police stations, in city council meeting rooms, in museums,
>> hospitals, castles, monasteries, churches, and so on.  Over the years 
>> I have
>> found some places I really like to be.
>>
>>
>> Sometimes the client has not yet booked something. Especially when it 
>> is not
>> an internal meeting but a system, I find it useful to ask what location
>> other than a normal meeting space would symbolise and offer the right
>> environment for what they want to achieve. Again this has produced some
>> remarkable spots.
>>
>>
>> This time around, however, I could select the space. It concerned a 
>> rather
>> special meeting; the seminar
>> on Harrison’s Wave Rider Tour in the Netherlands.
>>
>>
>> Then something strange happened.
>>
>>
>> All locations that I know and like were booked.
>>
>>
>> I wrote to my network and asked for suggestions. Some twenty-five
>> suggestions came in, most of which I did not know at all. In good 
>> spirits I
>> started to check. All that I contacted were booked, too.
>>
>>
>> I finally called a suggestion our collegue Gijs, a Dutchman living in
>> Shanghai gave me when we met
>> at WOSONOS in San Francisco. I called the secretariat of the
>> Sufi-organisation and explained them
>> I was looking for a special meeting space. Yes, they did have some 
>> meeting
>> facilities, but they were definitely not a commercial conference centre.
>> Only meetings with a strong spiritual link could be held.
>>
>>
>> What came to my mind was to say that our meeting was to be about creating
>> dialogue and enabling deep conversations that matter, but that I was not
>> looking for normal facilities, but had heard they had quite a special 
>> place.
>>
>>
>> There was a pause on the telephone line. “You must be reffering to our
>> temple”. I then remembered Gijs actually mentioned a temple.
>>
>>
>> I was then given the name of the guardian of the temple. A few hours 
>> later I
>> was there and had a wonderful conversation with a perfect stranger in an
>> amazing building: a Sufi temple, a perfect square with a golden dome
>> transparant enough to somehow pas on the light into the space.
>>
>>
>> The story of its foundation is, that Sufi teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan, 
>> sent
>> from India to Eaurope to create a link between the East and the West, 
>> had a
>> special experience during the summer school of 1922. He blessed the 
>> spot and
>> gave it the name Murad Hassil, which means "wish for filled".
>> He said to his students that anyone who prays with honesty, would 
>> experience
>> this blessing.
>>
>>
>> So, Wave Rider in the Netherlands will take place in the Sufi Temple, not
>> far from Amsterdam airport.
>> And by the way, it lies at on a dune at the seacoast. It comes including
>> real waves.
>>
>>
>> If you feel like coming, drop me a line.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Gerard Muller
>> gm at openspace.dk
>>
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