AW: The Work (Byron Katie) and open space - Upcoming workshops

Thu Mar 3 10:09:45 PST 2011

Hi Caitlin,
I´m vvery interested in these workshops. This time I´ll probably stay here,
but maybe one day we gather in such a workshop or elsewhere.
Best wishes,

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2011/3/3 Caitlin Frost <caitlin.frost at gmail.com>

> Hi space opening friends,
>
> If you have an interest in learning more about the inquiry process of The
> Work - I will be offering some two day workshops this spring and summer and
> i would welcome you to join me.  The workshops are structured as a way to
> both learn the process and bring it directly into practice with your own
> thinking and limiting beliefs in the context of both work and life.  We work
> with relationship, fear, places of we are stuck, attachment to outcome and
> deepening presence; opening internal space in mind and heart that supports
> opening space in the outside world.
>
> *Upcoming workshops in The Work*:
> Salt Spring Island, BC - April 1 - 3rd
> Edmonton, Alberta - April 29th - May 1
> Calgary, Alberta - May 6/7 (for parents)
> Omaha, NE - May 20 - 22nd
> Seattle, WA - June 3 - 5th (tentative)
> Leavenworth, WA - July 8 - 10th
>
> There is more information on my website at www.caitlinfrost.ca or feel
> free to contact me directly for more information or about the later
> workshops that are not posted yet.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Caitlin Frost <caitlin.frost at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have been learning and opening space in myself with The Work as a core
>> practice for more than a decade now.  Very early on I felt it as 'family'
>> with Open Space Technology.
>> As a practice of heart and mind opening - in places where mind and heart
>> are closed or closing, it continues to serve me in my own evolution in life
>> and also specifically as a facilitator of Open Space.
>> The Work, like Open Space, has clear simplicity and a basis in powerful
>> questions - 4 questions and then some turnarounds that open the mind to
>> possibility - that can be applied to any stuck place, and is accessible to
>> anyone willing to show up.
>>
>> Specifically in relation to Open Space - this inquiry process is very
>> alive for me as I prepare and show up to hold space.  The questions and
>> practice give me a tool for working with myself - with my own attachment to
>> outcome, my own attachment to who shows up or doesn't, my own fears along
>> the way.  I have found that a practice of working with my own stressful
>> thinking and limiting beliefs not only makes my own life and work easier and
>> less stressful - but what I learn in the process of sitting in my own
>> inquiry about the fears and beliefs I have working with a group and/or that
>> are triggered by the fears showing up from my client or the group, can often
>> make me more able to stay calm and see more options if/when they show up in
>> the room.
>>
>> When I am attached to a particular outcome or to approval from a client or
>> group - it makes it a lot harder for me to hold space in a clear way.  I
>> don't want to be attached - and the reality is that sometimes I am - until I
>> am not.  And The Work as a process to question my own attachment has been
>> very helpful.
>>
>> I have also been teaching the Work in some of our Art of Hosting trainings
>> - in support of facilitators - to work with our own fears of showing up
>> fully, of speaking honestly, of stepping forward to call and host powerful
>> conversations and to find our courage to bring process like Open Space into
>> new spaces or back from training and into workspaces where it is new and
>> different.  By identifying what thoughts and fears would stop us from
>> showing up fully and opening and holding space - a lot of movement has
>> happened.
>>
>> This past year - I worked with a team of facilitators where we were all
>> also practicing The Work as a way to identify and move through our limiting
>> beliefs and fears in a large gathering we were hosting together where stakes
>> and emotions felt high.  Having this way of supporting ourselves and each
>> other in staying open and holding the bigger space was very powerful and we
>> learned a lot.
>> I have also worked recently with a leadership team where we used The Work
>> as a tool for opening space in their thinking and working with their own
>> fears in order to continue to stay open and hold space in a process of
>> organizational change where we were using Open Space with the wider
>> organization and community.  I am finding it to be a good practice to share
>> with clients sometimes where they want to move forward with Open Space and
>> more participatory process but feel stuck or afraid.  The conversation of
>> 'if you feel this is the right thing, what would stop you?....' and then
>> where they are open to it, supporting them to find their own clarity with
>> the questions of the Work has also supported some good self-learning and
>> ability to move forward with more clarity.
>>
>> I have always experienced Open Space as not only a way to hold good
>> conversations and meetings, but also an invitation to live my life in the
>> flow of inviting and opening and evolving.  I experience The Work this way
>> also - and in many ways they make each other more possible.
>>
>> If you are curious - I have some free resources and information about
>> applying the Work in 'work' on my website:  www.caitlinfrost.com - and
>> hope to be blogging more about the Work in the world of hosting/facilitating
>> (New Years resolution...we'll see what happens....)  and Byron Katie also
>> has lots of information and resources on her site:  www.thework.com.
>>
>> Happy New Years all - and sweet to see two of my favourite gifts (Open
>> Space and The Work) showing up together for others too.
>>
>> Caitlin.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Jutta Weimar <jutta.weimar at web.de>
>> Date: Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:42 AM
>> Subject: [OSLIST] AW: The Work (Byron Katie) and open space
>> To: OSLIST at listserv.boisestate.edu
>>
>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>>
>>
>> yes, I am working and growing with The Work since 2006, and working an
>> growing with Open Space since 2000. I learned it from Ralf Giesen, who was
>>  NLP teacher here in Berlin and who stayed and worked with Byron Katie for a
>> year, starting a training program for The Work in Europe. The Work – like
>> other techniques that deal with beliefs (and especially with the ones that
>> are limiting) opens up to love what is there. From my point of view, it has
>> a lot in common with the peace that often emerges inside us during open
>> space.
>>
>> I use The Work in Trainings and Coachings and – alike Open Space – it has
>> changed my way of thinking and dealing with “challenges”.
>>
>>
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> And lots of love
>>
>>
>>
>> Jutta
>>
>>
>>
>> *Von:* OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] *Im Auftrag von *
>> Phelim
>> *Gesendet:* Montag, 20. Dezember 2010 13:43
>> *An:* OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>> *Betreff:* Re: The Work (Byron Katie) and open space
>>
>>
>>
>> Aah yes,
>>
>>
>>
>> Doing the work is a great way to prepare for opening space! It's pretty
>> challenging but I've found it very useful. I had a great conversation with
>> Chris Corrigan about this when I was in Vancouver. Matilda and I first found
>> out about the Work from his partner Caitlin who is a trainer for The Work.
>> I'm sure he has some interesting insights on the connections between OS and
>> the Work!
>>
>>
>>
>> Phelim x
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>
>> On 20 Dec 2010, at 11:47, ELEDER AURTENETXE PILDAIN <
>> eleder.aurtenetxe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello open space friends around the big ball!
>> Last week I received some books by *Byron Katie* (www.thework.com).
>> Now I´m delighted reading one of them,* "A thousand names for joy"*, in
>> my daily train commuting.
>> So good! So many similarities with open space! Did you know about it? If
>> not, I´m sure you´ll love it...
>>
>> Enjoy life :-)!
>>
>> Eleder
>>
>> *BM**31_Bilbao*: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity
>>
>> www.flowandshow.blogspot.com
>>
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>>
>> www.burumapak.blogspot.com (Basque)
>> www.in-fluyendo.blogspot.com (Spanish)<http://www.in-fluyendo.blogspot.com/>
>>
>> Twitter: @Eleder_BM <http://www.twitter.com/Eleder_BM>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> --
>> If you really knew how beautiful you are,
>> you would fall at your own feet.
>> *Byron Katie.*
>>
>> CAITLIN M FROST
>> Coaching and Facilitation
>> Certified Facilitator - The Work of Byron Katie
>> Principal - Harvest Moon Consultants Ltd.
>> www.caitlinfrost.ca
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> If you really knew how beautiful you are,
> you would fall at your own feet.
> *Byron Katie.*
>
> CAITLIN M FROST
> Coaching and Facilitation
> Certified Facilitator - The Work of Byron Katie
> Principal - Harvest Moon Consultants Ltd.
> www.caitlinfrost.ca
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