re honouring each other

[Chris Corrigan]

I'm a little late to this conversation but I'd like to add my two cents.

Thank you to all who hold space for the various ways that we are able to
connect our work to people that need it. And thank you to Michael for the
tireless work he does on the openspace world website.

No one controls the number one spot in Google. It's all about how many
people link to you. If you have quality stuff and people link to it you'll
go higher in the rankings. I have no doubt that the ning site has all the
potential to be number one and that would be great. But let's be clear that
there is no way to conspire to keep others out of the top spots.

These strange personal attacks on the list do nothing to advance the
community's work. It is highly out of character for this community to engage
like this. I know everyone involved in this dispute personally and I am
having a hard time ascribing motives or squaring what I am reading with what
i know of these people personally.

We can all be prickly at times but is this a fight that is necessary to
have?

With gratitude for passion bounded by responsibility.

Chris
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On 2009-11-18, at 3:18, Tree Fitzpatrick <therese.fitzpatrick at gmail.com>
wrote:

For what it is worth, I experience Kaliya's comments as powerful, even
courageous efforts to open space.

For what it is worth, I experience Michael's comments as name-calling,
denigrating, invalidating, dishonoring. I find myself wishing he would make
less attack statements and more 'I' statements, telling us what he thinks
and feels without attacking others shared thoughts and feelings.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Karen Sella <karen at luminacoaching.com>wrote:

> For what it's worth, I experienced all the comments from Michael and others
> as adding useful perspectives to the conversation--not invalidating or
> dishonoring... just sharing yet another perspective.
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> Warmly,
> Karen
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> Hi Everyone,
> I have been following this community for a while and will soon start
> sharing info. Many thanks for all the enlivening info. I am grateful.
> I feel the need to speak in response to Michael's comments re Kaliya's
> thoughts.
> OST is about staying open and positive and welcoming of all perspectives
> and ideas, as I experience it. Critiquing and judging and saying "no" to
> ideas stops the new, constantly self-emerging outflowing of ideas that is
> creating a continual shared meaning among us all that excites me to no
> end.
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> All of Kaliya's ideas are valid.
>
> Michael, may I suggest you own your own ideas more powerfully by using
> phrases like "in my opinion" or using the pronoun "I" rather than "you"
> when you share your own ideas.
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> ...and on with the OST dance,
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> Sincerely,
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