world osonos?

Tue May 18 21:08:03 PDT 2010

Mahalo Lisa for framing so eloquently for me why I am doing this work. I've been too busy to track recent posts, but fortunately was able to read yours this time. It has made a difference in my day and how I will approach tomorrow.

Eric Kapono
Hilo, Hawaii
Kapono at advancementservices.org

~Eric
808.989.5347 (c)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Heft <lisaheft at openingspace.net>
Date:         Tue, 18 May 2010 20:29:18 
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: world osonos?

A bit of fact: The Access Queen project is not a money fund. There are  
some dollars, but not a lot, not travel money or anything but instead,  
lots of work person to person, connecting people to resources - and  
Askers to Givers - and dreams to words, intentions and deeds.

It is helping the Host Teams learn from the wisdom and experience of  
past Host Teams, so they can learn and make their own decisions based  
on what others in their situations have found to be useful or  
challenging.

It is something working the network to find homestays, sometimes  
placing a small but of money in the pocket of someone with very low  
finances so that they too can buy a book or have a meal out with  
others at a WOSonOS or OSonOS.  The Access Queen project is an  
awareness raising project, helping-people-articulate-their-dreams-and- 
act-on-them project, a connecting people together project, a let's do  
something for those who are not as able as we are project, a pay-it- 
forward project, an I-believe-in-you project.
This is what I commit to, am passionate about, this is what I do, to  
put my actions behind my wishes to invite diversity and inclusion at  
these events.

It it so rewarding that I say go my friends, go do anything you like  
that you feel has impact and helps people in any way you wish.

I welcome anyone to host any gathering of Open Space facilitators,  
learners and enthusiasts. Anywhere, any time.
You do not need my welcome to do so, but I welcome you anyway.

I welcome anyone hosting whatever is their passion.
For some that is a local or regional OSonOS (such as the one we will  
be having every year in San Francisco and the ones they have in Haiti,  
Swenmark and for the Francophone OS community). Call it whatever you  
wish.
For some that is an international OSonOS, and whoever has the passion  
to stand up and say 'I invite you' has my support and awe at such  
passion and power of intention.
Call it what you will.

For some it may be an event that calls facilitators forward to work  
together on an issue.
That will not drive my passion, because a WOSonOS/OSonOS - a user's  
conference specifically to explore how we can do this method/tool/ 
process and the humble ego it takes very very thoughtfully - is the  
*only* place I can gather with my diverse peers *specifically* to talk  
about this method, stretch learning on it, compare what works for some  
people and cultures that does not work for others, try some things  
out, and see how others use this tool / process / method.

To me, making a big something is not my measurement. Like 'creating  
peace'. To me, *being* peace is the answer. For me.
To me, for me, that serves more than one issue - it serves all the  
people we will ever work with and for - violence survivors, amazing  
young people, visionary corporate leaders who treat the world as  
mother and employees as humans, artists, people emerging out of war,  
communities sharing land - all sorts of people doing incredible work  
in this world - without it having to be my own issue or my own sense  
of urgency.

I welcome (but again you do not need my welcome) those of you who feel  
the joy at hosting a $25 event in a church hall to feel that amazing  
experience.
I have experienced it, and it is marvelous.
I welcome those of you who feel the joy at working really really hard  
on inclusion and invitation and outreach and access of site and  
language and visas and more to feel that amazing experience if you  
wish (as my fellow WOSonOS Host Team members did when it was our  
turn).  I have experienced it, and it is also marvelous.
However you wish.
(it is my experience that when we do less, others with less mobility,  
ability, language and access have higher hurdles to join us in our  
marvelous spaces so for me, it's the joyful burden of pre-work that  
will be my delight and pleasure to do - but that is just speaking for  
myself. I am passionate about matters of access.)

I crave those times - local or in a place far a way from my home - to  
learn from people of cultures and languages and regions not my own.  
Because I am most enriched, and most humbled, by those experiences. So  
for myself, I appreciate the gatherings of internationals and people  
of all ages - whether I can get to or afford them or whether I simply  
live in delight that someone else can and it's not my time or choice  
or ability to do so.

I welcome anyone to raise funds or awareness or resources or anything.
To go or not go.
To sit with elders or dance their own dance without elders.
To feel like something is a competition or that someone is creating  
barriers or offering approval or validation - or to release any  
framework of scarcity or competition or barriers and to embrace  
abundance.

We cannot say for others what they feel or what motivates them (for  
example we cannot say that an inviter to a WOSonOS or OSonOS in their  
home country or region is seeking validation from any of us). We can  
only truly say what we ourselves feel.

So mostly, I welcome you to speak for yourselves, to say "I", to stand  
up and say what *you* will do rather than say what *should* happen.
To simply refrain from doing what you do not want to do.
To start whatever you wish.
To help others in the ways that you can.
To not be burdened by what you think is someone else's decision but to  
rise to your own power.
As one reporter here (Wes Scoop Nisker) likes to say: "If you don't  
like the news, go out and make some of your own."

And I'll see you in Chile. And I'll see you in London.
If life happens that way, and I hope it will.

Lisa

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