a moment to remember

[Chris Corrigan]

And just to add...you have a fine teacher in Ted too.  Thanks for this story
Ana.
Chris

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:51 PM, douglas germann
<76066.515 at compuserve.com>wrote:

> Ana--
>
> You have made a profound observation when you said "there's always a
> soul that tells a beautiful deep and unexpected story about it."
>
> The story that your participant told is beautiful, as well. Thank you
> for sharing it.
>
> And welcome to the list and the Work!
>
>                        :- Doug.
>
> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 15:59 -0700, ana castanheira wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> > It's probably the first time writing to you.
> >
> > During the last one year and a half I've been following your
> > conversations, your perspectives, your insights.
> >
> > I believe I've been learning from all of you.
> >
> > I've been practicing OST in Portugal, mostly in Portuguese language
> > but with a few limitations; after all I'm working alone with an
> > unknown method to most of people.
> >
> > Portugal seemed to me at first sight a difficult country to implement
> > this method. Although the culture is very open, the business companies
> > and organizations in general still tend to use traditional methods for
> > meetings or for solving problems.
> >
> > Nevertheless the few experiences I had, people did told me in the end,
> > that they really enjoyed having the freedom and the space open for
> > creativity.
> >
> > The first steps are always the harder to take.
> >
> > And that leads me to last 7 to 9 of September  in Porto where I had
> > the pleasure of being invited by Ted Ernst  to co-facilitate Wikisym –
> > the 4th international event around wikis you can see more in
> > http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/index.php/OpenSpace
> >
> > This was certainly the event that made me realize how much I want to
> > continue to do Open Space. It was a such a fulfilling experience.
> >
> > I noticed something very curious whatever is taken as a talking stick,
> > there's always a soul that tells a beautiful deep and unexpected story
> > about it.
> >
> > On this event I happen to choose a natural stick coming from a
> > beautiful plant growing outside university gardens.
> >
> > From something completely out of the technological world an amazing
> > story was told: a plant once seeded on a dry vast corner of the world
> > in spite of severe climate conditions, was so beautiful that would
> > always be able to grow and for that called the joy of the children's
> > flower.
> >
> > I cannot thank Ted enough for all the amazing things I've learned
> > about me as a facilitator. After all I also can facilitate OST's in
> > Portugal don't matter the conditions.
> >
> > Peace.
> >
> > Ana
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "If you want to go faster, go alone. If you want to go further, go
> > together."
> > African proverb
> >
> >
> >
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CHRIS CORRIGAN
Facilitation - Training - Process Design
Open Space Technology

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