WOSONOS - feeling of a missed opportunity.

[Christine Whitney Sanchez]

Dear Karolina,

Thank you for your courage.  Your visualization of a shoulder-shoulder  
circle with each person feeling the collective power that backs them  
up as they move into the world, brought the energy inside the WOSonOS  
circle alive for me.

I really resonate with your wish to have "taken the chance for using  
the collective we were for making a big something, a big action,  
sending a lot of invitations to the world to enjoy and spread and have  
fun and love and development and support the self-organisation..."   
There is so much need.

Thank you for sharing.

Warm wishes from a cloudy day in Phoenix,

Christine

Christine Whitney Sanchez
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On May 17, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Karolina Iwa wrote:

> coming back home from the wosonos made me sad.
> trying to figure out where it comes from
> i realised there was something i was missing a lot in this meeting.
> and i find it a pity i just realised it in the closing round and  
> could only verbalise it on the way back, but i take my chance and  
> still would like to share it with you here over the list.
>
> i had this impression we all as a group / community during this  
> meeting
> were mostly busy with topics related to the method
> and to us in various roles and relationships with others while using  
> the method
> and to our personal and organisational growth and development.
>
> i had this visualisation of us standing in a circle, shoulder to  
> shoulder, facing inside,
> feeling the power, the confusion, the energy, the movement. focused  
> on the centre and its content.
> maybe feeling / sensing the world outside, but neither relating to  
> it a lot nor taking common actions in its direction.
> there were so many people, so much energy and emotions
> and i guess i just miss us turning our backs to the centre of the  
> circle,
> turning our faces and fronts to the world outside,
> feeling the energy behind our backs
> and with it feeling empowered to take common action and send a  
> message to the world,
> use the resources we have and see how we can use what we are blessed  
> to be experiencing and having.
>
> if the collecting of issues or action planning was to happen again
> i wish i had posted for example an idea for each of us
> to offer an open space to the community we belong / relate to or are  
> connected with for free.
> that we would create and share a gift.
> share the energy, the spirit so often referred to with the ones who  
> need it but cannot afford it or don't know where to ask.
>
> and i know many of us do it anyway, i am totally aware of that.
> i just wish we had taken the chance for using the collective we were
> for making a big something, a big action, sending a lot of  
> invitations to the world
> to enjoy and spread and have fun and love and development and  
> support the self-organisation...
>
> i am thinking as well of yaaris question in the closing round
> if os is white and rich.
> i wonder what to do to break the impression i share. what can i do?
> i wonder how to invite people who cannot afford coming to wosonos  
> because they are missing resources.
> as i work with european funds i came up with the idea of applying  
> for a grant which would co-fund the participation of people who  
> would come to the wosonos, but for whom the participation fee and  
> all related costs are an barrier in participating.
> this is just a small idea,
> but i would like to give with it a shot and try to support a tendency
> and make os more inclusive and make us a more diverse and welcoming  
> group.
> as i know more about european funds i could take care of  
> coordinating such a project
> and try to get additional funds for the 2012 wosonos in london.
>
> i am quite anxious of people misunderstanding my point,
> and it takes quite some courage of me to write this email,
> but i still want to share it.
>
> with everybody who was and was not there and with everybody here.
>
> karolina.
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