re honouring each other

Toke Paludan Møller toke at interchange.dk
Wed Nov 18 22:05:56 PST 2009 

HO Chris

I am grateful
For
My friend
The enemy
For waking me up

Cheers to The art
Of holding space
For the opposites
To co exist
In beauty

Toke

Sendt fra min iPhone

Den 19/11/2009 kl. 02.43 skrev Chris Corrigan  
<chris.corrigan at gmail.com>:

> 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
> -----
> CHRIS CORRIGAN
> http://www.chriscorrigan.com
>
> Sent from an iPod, typed with thumbs...
>
>
> 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.
>>
>> Warmly,
>> Karen
>>
>>
>>
>> Karen Sella
>> Coaching:  www.luminacoaching.com
>> Consulting:  www.integralventures.com
>> Blog: www.lumina.typepad.com
>> Phone: 1.206.780.2998
>> Skype: karensella
>>
>>
>> lumina fr. L. light, air, opening...
>>
>>
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>> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of  
>> Kathie
>> Wallace
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:10 AM
>> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>> Subject: [OSLIST] re honouring each other
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ...and on with the OST dance,
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Kathie Wallace
>> Vancouver, BC, Canada
>>
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>>
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>> . . . the great and incalculable grace of love, which says, with  
>> Augustine, "I want you to be," without being able to give any  
>> particular reason for such supreme and unsurpassable affirmation.   
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