[OSList] Poke the Open Space Box
Brendan McKeague
mckeaguebrendan at gmail.com
Wed May 18 21:12:07 PDT 2011
Wonderful conversation....
Just this morning, I read a Blessing for a New Beginning from John O'Donohue's To Bless the Space Between Us
Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm
For your soul senses the world that awaits you
Sounds like a lovely way to 'poke the spirit' of Open Space - for anyone/everyone
Cheers
Brendan
On 19/05/2011, at 11:20 AM, Spark.osk wrote:
> A courage to liberate the hero imprisoned in the leading sponsor of OS event can virally affect the etire human systems that have yearned to get out of their box imprisoning their spirit. All we have to do seems to let it happen by inviting them to open it and enjoy whatever happens. Ah... I seem to know hope will remain at least.
>
> Hope ubiquitously charged by OST ;-))
>
> spark
> Liberate the leader in each of us.
>
> 2011-05-19 오전 11:16, doug 쓴 글:
>>
>> Suzanne--
>>
>> Your mention of the hero's journey set my heart on something I wrote a
>> couple of days ago, triggered by Rumi:
>>
>> empty-making & whole-making
>> these are all we sell here
>> muddle & community
>> hero/ine going out coming back &
>> finding the boon for the community in
>> the community
>> most folks don't have either
>> zig & zag each and both help the
>> line remember it is one
>>
>> :- Doug.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 09:13 -0400, Suzanne Daigle wrote:
>>> Harold,
>>>
>>> Your post has been on my mind a lot...Your question: "What's the path
>>> to abundant full time Open Space living?" and then your comment "I've
>>> been wishing I could do this full time - go out - get clients - and
>>> facilitate OST conferences full time - but Seth's quote kind of threw
>>> that back at me".
>>>
>>> All I can say Harold is to follow your passion. In many ways it is a
>>> hero's journey, a journey that does not have the security, the
>>> predictability, the stability and all that a traditional "abundant
>>> full time job or career might have". For me, Open Space is the
>>> pathway that opens up space to transform how we do work, how we
>>> experience life, how we are together, together. There is nothing that
>>> compares. I know I could be accused at times of being a "one trick
>>> pony" but how can I dismiss the depth, the possibilities, the layers,
>>> the hope, the transformation, innovation, creativity, peace,
>>> performance and all that Opening Space invites in our lives. It is a
>>> way of being much more than a process of doing.
>>>
>>> As I reflect on my corporate career, I can feel and taste the
>>> possibilities of what Open Space invites. It invites EVERYONE to
>>> participate and engage, to contribute and make a difference. To be
>>> themselves without holding back. Wow! And as I think of you Harold,
>>> your depth, your commitment and contributions to this community, I
>>> think to myself, lucky client who would have you to Open Space. What a
>>> gift knowing the results and outcomes in productivity, high
>>> performance and high engagement that could occur.
>>>
>>> As a community, I feel us to be on the edge...on the edge of so many
>>> possibilities. The World today is a very different place: in business,
>>> in politics, in education, in finance, environmentally, etc. Or
>>> perhaps it's not that different at all, it's just our perception that
>>> has changed and perception is everything. It's a lot.
>>>
>>> The opportunities to be opening space abound. Some days I feel like a
>>> shoe salesman seeing
>>> so many people around me with no shoes, not even knowing what shoes
>>> are and I think of the "repetitive patterns" of how they work and live
>>> that aren't working anymore. I then think to myself "if only they had
>>> shoes aka Open Space" and therein lies the entrepreneur magic inside
>>> of me. In those times, I feel myself to be a business owner, a
>>> scientist and an inventor -- imagining the path of how I can help
>>> people discover how life could be better if only we could open space
>>> and introduce a few principles of living.
>>>
>>> At this stage, rather than writing a book, I feel myself wanting to
>>> write a marketing campaign not to sell somebody on something but to
>>> speak in a language where people are, a language of need and
>>> possibilities that is familiar. A language that invites a relationship
>>> with clients, a language that does not talk about Open Space but that
>>> is all about Opening Space in different ways so we can get different
>>> results.
>>>
>>> So Harold, I thank you for posting this. It made me realize again
>>> that time is "awasting" and that I have important work to do if I am
>>> to go for the whole enchilada, as Harrison told me in a recent post.
>>> It means being smart and strategic, thinking like an entrepreneur,
>>> knowing what I'm good at and going for it.
>>>
>>> I'm imagining there are lots of Wave Riders out there like you, like
>>> me who are not shy about announcing that making a sustainable living
>>> doing what we love to do is indeed a noble and worthy goal. And
>>> "abundance" seems like a darn good word because it is through
>>> abundance, sharing, helping each other, contributing back to this
>>> community that abundance happens and multiples.
>>>
>>> So Harold, keep simmering your dream and let me know if I can help in
>>> this trail blazing, wave riding adventure that we call Open Space
>>> which is really nothing more than opening space in our lives so that
>>> "people can be helping people" in business, community and in life.
>>>
>>> Suzanne, invigorated and energized about the future
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Harold Shinsato <harold at shinsato.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> I just read this in Seth Godin's latest tract - "Poke the
>>> Box". I've heard occasionally that some folks are having
>>> trouble making ends meet as Open Space Technology
>>> facilitators. Yet others seem to be doing ok. I've been
>>> wishing I could do this full time - go out - get clients - and
>>> facilitatre OST conferences full time - but Seth's quote kind
>>> of threw that back at me.
>>>
>>>
>>> "My friend Jessica wants to be a conference organizer. You can
>>> hire her and she'll sweat every single detail of your event.
>>> Give her the attendee list, the venue, and the agenda, and the
>>> conference will go off without a hitch.
>>>
>>> "The problem with this plan is that it involves being picked
>>> by the event promoter. If she gets picked often, it's a fine
>>> living. If she can negotiate a fair payday, it's a fine
>>> living. But Jessica must pitch the promoter, hat in hand.
>>>
>>> "So... why not be the promoter, the initiator, the one in
>>> charge and responsible?"
>>>
>>> - Seth Godin, Poke the Box, p. 25
>>>
>>>
>>> This sounds a lot more like the spirit of OST than going out
>>> looking for clients who want to do OST events. This is very
>>> personal for me as Missoula BarCamp's OST event happens on
>>> Saturday. I went out and just got it started - but it's not
>>> exactly a money maker at this point. But what Seth says, just
>>> initiating cool OST events, sounds a lot more juicy than
>>> trying to pitch OST facilitation.
>>>
>>> Any enlightenment anyone? What's the path to abundant full
>>> time Open Space living?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Harold Shinsato
>>> harold at shinsato.com
>>> http://shinsato.com
>>> twitter: @hajush
>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Suzanne Daigle
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