Balloons as an Ice Breaker

Thu May 13 21:43:17 PDT 2010

Dear Lisa,
for me, its part of my facilitation approach/idea.
"Trust" is a category that has to do with my relationship to someone 
else. In my role as facilitator I feel it establishes a hierarchical 
relationship between me and the group. What I know is that 
selforganisation is active, regardless of what I do. Also, I know of the 
ressources in groups and systems that I feel are often underestimated.
Its with those forces and givens that I work as facilitator.
Have a great day at the WOSonOS!!
cheers
mmp

Lisa Heft schrieb:
> Thank you, Anne, and...
> Wow - that is a beautiful question, Michael.
> 
> It invites me to think about these words.
> 
> I think that 'know' to me feels like ownership of a truth that I myself 
> know-feel-understand as a truth / fact / etc.
> 
> I think that 'trust' is (for me) the not having to know. The 
> not-knowing. The faith. The belief in the unknown and unknowable. Even 
> the possibility that the truth could be other than I know.
> 
> I am not getting quite to it with words (maybe it is not something that 
> can be described in words)...
> The letting-go kind of knowing?
> 
> Even though I 'know' that the method will work and the people are 
> amazing, somehow to me the 'trust' is my gesture (practice? action? 
> dance?) of faith.
> 
> ...
> 
> Who else wants to play with this idea?
> 
>  From Berlin,
> Lisa
> 
> On May 12, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Michael M Pannwitz wrote:
> 
>> Dear Lisa,
>> I wonder about the "trust". If I am good and wise and reflected I 
>> might be able to trust myself.
>> What kind of relationship do I establish between me and something or 
>> between me and someone when I "trust" something or someone?
>> What about "know", in the sense of "I know that selforganisation 
>> exists" or "I know that I and others do come alive, act and are 
>> productive under the condition of expanded time and space for 
>> selforganisation"?
>> In the end, I might arrive at the same juncture regardless of whether 
>> I "trust" or I "know": open space itself is the most luscious 
>> icebreaker on earth (having seen this in the 170 events I facilitated 
>> for teachers, social workers, mediators, grade school students, 
>> doctors, politicians, government workers, architects, city planners, 
>> highschoolstudents, chemical plant workers, IT specialists, 
>> alcoholics, communications experts, ministers, volunteers, university 
>> professors, sanitation workers...I KNOW it).
>> Seems to me that "knowing" is much less work for me than "trusting".
>> Isn't knowing also more robust and reliabel than trusting?
>>
>> Good thing we can munch on this some more at the WOSonOS beginning 
>> tomorrow.
>> You wont believe this but there were three more folks that signed in 
>> today, 2 from Berlin and one from London.
>> Sleep tight
>> mmp
>>
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>From  Fri May 14 07:43:27 2010
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Dear Chris,

yes, Martin made it to the Berlin event. He was one of quite some last 
minute registrations. Although Czech Rep is hut around the corner we had 
never been in touch with an OS person from there. Thank you for sending 
him from Australia.

Greetings
Jo
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Chris Corrigan schrieb:
> Just back from a lovely one day OSonOSinAus hosted by Viv Mcwaters and geoff Brown and the OSI in Australia.  About 35 people there (but no kangaroo on the menu), and the spirit of Brian very much in the air.  Love being in the field of OSonOS gatherings far and wide.  Have a beautiful time in Berlin.  Perhaps our Czech friend Martin, who was with us in Melbourne last week, will show up there as well.
> 
> Chris
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> chris at chriscorrigan.com
> http://www.chriscorrigan.com
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> 
> On 2010-05-12, at 4:00 PM, Suzanne Daigle wrote:
> 
>> To our OS community,
>>
>> It is late...what to say and where to start. For many of us, it was
>> not easy getting here but after detours and delays, here we all are!
>> Berlin WOSonOS!    The church where we sat in concentric circles
>> defies description -- such a beautiful and spiritual setting.  Our
>> host team outdid itself.  There is no way tonight that I could capture
>> the words spoken by so many in the official welcome marking the 25th
>> anniversary of OST. Such love and delightful humor in those anecdotes.
>> Of course Harrison's name came up quite a few times, along with many
>> others who were and are part of its history. These stories seemed to
>> somehow bring everyone into the room with us whether they were
>> physically here or not.
>>
>> Tonight as I write these few words, I simply want to somehow capture
>> the joy I felt and saw in others as we put faces to familiar names,
>> greeting each other as old friends even though many of us were meeting
>> for the very first time. And that in the end is worth honoring and
>> celebrating -- living in the moment of those greetings and
>> conversations knowing that tomorrow and for the next few days, the
>> circle will open, space will be held and the circle will close. OST is
>> so precious in so many ways something that we are reminded of,
>> everytime we are together.
>>
>> In closing, it seems that even Brian Bainbridge might have been up to
>> his mischevious ways when a group of us sat in a small restaurant for
>> lunch quite startled to see all those kangaroo items on the first page
>> of the menu. Kangaroo in Berlin?  Was it our Australian WOSonOS
>> friends sending us an unusual message?  We bravely ordered our meal
>> and loved it.
>>
>> Be prepared to be surprised indeed. We were and still are.
>>
>> Sweet dreams everyone.
>>
>> Suzanne
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Suzanne Daigle
>> NuFocus Strategic Group
>> 7159 Victoria Circle
>> University Park, FL 34201
>> FL 941-359-8877;
>> CT 203-722-2009
>> www.nufocusgroup.com
>> s.daigle at nufocusgroup.com
>>
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