Blissful journey in Open Space

Fri Apr 23 07:06:53 PDT 2010

That is beautiful Suzanne.

Your words inspire me.

Claudia

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:02 PM, doug <os at footprintsinthewind.com> wrote:

> Suzanne--
>
> Wonderful! You keep us all chasing our bliss in this world work.
>
> I especially like your turn of phrase, "Big talk."
>
>                        :- Doug.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 09:24 -0400, Suzanne Daigle wrote:
> > Dear Open Space friends, I was going to send a personal thank you note
> > to Harrison (who I'm glad to say has become my friend as he is to all
> > of you and all of us). Instead I decided to just put myself out there
> > again in this community and send it to everyone.
> >
> > As I prepare for my upcoming trip to Berlin, celebrating my first year
> > of Open Space following wonderful training by Diane Gibeault in Ottawa
> > in April last year, I just decided to share my story and my feelings
> > with all of you.  I am truly in awe that Open Space is celebrating 25
> > years this year in the city where the Berlin Wall used to be.  I
> > cannot help but feel it is significant -- significant thinking of all
> > the Berlin Walls that should fall in so many places in our world where
> > people feel overwhelmed by the things that seem to be crashing down
> > around them.  Yet I feel that this deep pain is possibly the signal of
> > a collective and global rebirth.  But to notice and see, we must open
> > up space in our lives.  As we do, we realize that what matters most is
> > what's inside of us.  It's why I am as drawn today to Open Space as I
> > was the first time I "met" OS a year ago. So today I decided to press
> > the "send button" ....thank you Michael Herman that it's working so
> > well allowing me to share how I'm feeling on the eve of my trip to
> > Berlin.   I can't wait to meet so many that I have been reading here
> > and others who I know already. I feel such gratitude to have the
> > opportunity to be there. I've even decided to do a second training in
> > Open Space in Berlin to deepen my practice and learning with many from
> > other countries.
> >
> > Now for my note that I had intended to send to Harrison:
> >
> >
> > Hi dear friend Harrison,
> >
> > My « bliss » journey continues and I know you said Thank you not
> > required.   But I still want to say thank you.
> >
> > You see for me I’ve connected that the “song” (from mythology) leading
> > me here came from my first encounter of Open Space. It “caught me”
> > then and without knowing in the darkness of it all, I chose to make it
> > my life path. Hugely unsettling as it made me question so much of who
> > I was and had done in my career and in my life.  It led me to a deep
> > searching, so much reading, throwing myself into Open Space as a
> > practice every chance I could finally leading me...inside myself.  As
> > I started to go there and for me this is just the start, I realized
> > that by just 'being' instead of 'doing', life around me was changing!
> > My relationships with my mom, my dad, daughter and siblings, friends
> > and others are so much richer.  I’ve met so many people this past year
> > leading to so many “big talk” conversations instead of small talk --
> > conversations where it feels like we're  Expanding our Now.  (a
> > Harrison book).
> >
> > Often, I felt like I needed to go into my cave disconnecting, knowing
> > that I will be reconnecting with quiet purpose following my bliss in
> > the years ahead.  Not easy to do in a society that expects us to do
> > more and more with less all the time. Plus there is this little thing
> > called paying your bills. Yes, it has been blissful, easy no!
> >
> > As I have embarked on this journey, I read what you’ve and many others
> > have written, great thinkers and many authors you spoke of in your
> > books.  Myth, philosophy, science, etc.  Like a kid, reading Hardy Boy
> > mysteries, it’s been magical.  And through it all, I think of Open
> > Space, its principles, its law and what it awakens in many people
> > inviting them to Freedom and Choice, to the place inside of them that
> > makes you feel like a kid again that is your life..
> >
> > Everywhere around me, I see people racing, running, worrying without
> > ever having time…or taking time.  By opening space, wherever and
> > whenever I can, 24X7 (for me once a month participating or
> > facilitating: this weekend with the Girl Scouts), I feel I can do a
> > small part for people to perhaps discover as I did the magic that is
> > within them.
> >
> > In my continuing words of thank you, a brief paragraph from one of
> > Joseph Campbell’s writings captured in the book Pathway to Bliss
> > talking about Arthur’s banquet hall with all the knights around the
> > Round Table. To me, it spoke Open Space.
> >
> > “They thought it would be a disgrace to go forth in  a group. Each
> > entered the Forest Adventurous at that point which he himself had
> > chosen, where it was darkest and there was no way or path.” You enter
> > the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there’s
> > a way or path, it is someone else’s path; each human being is a unique
> > phenomenon.  The idea is to find your own pathway to bliss.
> >
> > Harrison when I sat in a circle for the first time, it felt like a
> > scary dark forest for me – someone who had lived in hierarchy all my
> > life, career and otherwise seeking to do what others defined to be
> > “living responsibly” in a command-control sort of way. I felt it then
> > and I feel it now that by opening space, there is a big chance that
> > Open Space will "catch others" too. I don't know if you can find this
> > place alone, by yourself. For me, I found it sitting there with others
> > in my first Open Space when I was in  Canada. I believe with Open
> > Space, we can discover ourselves and what we're passionate about and
> > from that place, we create community, a new community where people can
> > just be themselves, give of their individual gifts, appreciate others
> > and create in a new way, paying attention and noticing what matters,
> > expanding their now.
> >
> > So folks, now I press the send button feeling a bit vulnerable,
> > questioning as I always do if silence is not more effective because in
> > the end knowing our journeys are always unique and personal, I know
> > that it is not by "telling" that we find our journey but in
> > discovering it ourselves.
> >
> > I know had I been reading this before I "met" Open Space leading me to
> > my path, it would have scared me to read this as if someone was
> > pushing a religion on me.
> >
> > And yet here in this community which feels like home, I felt it was ok
> > to share especially now less than a month away from the Berlin WOSonOS
> > with OS happenings in Australia as well and Brian Bainbridge in our
> > thoughts.
> >
> > Love to all, Suzanne
> >
> >
>
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