[OSList] WOSonOS

Thu Oct 18 02:59:03 PDT 2012

Hi Jonathan,

I´m very happy to have noticed and read you message on the list. Sometimes
I feel a bit overwhelmed and leave some messages unread...

I think that all the light you perceived (and I share your view, thanks so
much for your description) during WOSonOs is inside you. I remember meeting
you first time during the wonderful reception and all during these days
till Sunday and you´ve been for me an example of openness, kindness and
awareness during those days.

I´m sure I´ll see you one day, Jonathan, a big hug in the meanwhile!

@Eleder_BuM <http://twitter.com/Eleder_BuM>

pd: now I´m about to start writing the rport on the so special session on
"Open Space without chairs", woooow!

2012/10/17 Jonathan Coe <coej66 at hotmail.com>

>  Hello new OS friends!
>
> I wanted to share with you my experience of my first ever OS event in
> sunny Stoke Newington. Three weeks ago I had never heard of OS and
> suddenly there I was at the World conference!
>
> I had a blast! It was really such an enlivening space that opened up. I
> felt very connected to people and found an amazing sense of presence and
> awareness that made the whole thing really special. And so many amazing
> people! Conferences usually involve a lot of talking, accompanied by a
> lot of inner dialogue critiquing the talkers... At WOSonOS there was
> talking also, and there was a lot more listening, palpable listening. I
> recall one person saying that he usually talked a lot and that there he li
> stened more, and felt heard more. My guess is that his experience was not
> unique.
>
> I want to pay tribute to Phelim and his team for such a great production,
> really great, and I loved the opening night sketch and performances. I am
> so grateful to you for who you are and what you bring.
>
> And to everyone I had the real pleasure of being in conversation with: I
> felt very connected to you and felt like this was something really
> special for the world. I am working on using OS for some global
> conversations, so, watch this space...
>
> My session, on 'being in the moment'  - we were able to have an experienceof being in the moment, and that resulted in no-one taking notes... So
> below are my own retrospective notes. If anyone who was there cares to add
> anything, please do.
>
> I was so moved and touched and inspired by everyone. I was very moved at
> the closing session and had tears in my eyes as we said our farewells.
>
> I never met any of you before, but I feel like I love you.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> *
> *
>
> The question in my mind for this session was 'I wonder if the group that
> comes together for this session can have a collective experience of being
> in the moment?'.
>
> Interestingly the session was always full with between 6 and 10 people
> present, and the end group was entirely different from the beginning group.
> I wondered how much leaving a session might be connected with a belief that
> we know about what is going to happen in that session.
>
> People shared their experiences of being in the moment, and more often,
> not being in the moment.  One person shared that for her an experience of
> being out of the moment happened when some people left the group and her
> thoughts became tied up with ideas that their departure had something to do
> with her. A common reaction.
>
> I shared an experience of being absolutely present to everything around me
> on a bus journey I had had recently. The people, the traffic, the
> buildings, the noise. I had experienced them all as incredibly vibrant and
> alive. I was present to their vitality and noticed the way the light fell
> on it all, the way that everything is so 3D. My way of being was that I
> accepted whatever happened, noise, delays and so on, I resisted nothing. I
> had become aware that I had beliefs about bus journeys, like 'I know bus
> journeys, I've done them before. I know this area, I've seen it before'. I
> gave up all my beliefs, which were essentially about an idea that I somehow
> knew what was in the future. A space opened up and I realised that *I had
> no idea what was in the future*. That no-one ever has any completely
> reliable idea what is in the future. And the space that opened up was one
> of total  openness, where actual experience could happen. Not an idea about
> experience or an interpretation of it, but experience itself. I wondered
> 'Could this bus journey occur to me in a new way?'. And it did. Some places
> we went through occurred as though they were film sets - the light appeared
> as though carefully organised and controlled to give the best possible
> vision of the scene in front of me.  I have very good recall of this
> journey, and this makes me wonder how much poor memory is associated with
> an avoidance of living fully.  So this has become a way of being which I
> access every day now. And one which is available to anyone.
>
> There was a sharing of an experience of arriving at work and having no
> memory of driving to get there.  The person had been thinking for the whole
> journey about the working day ahead. Was there any way that this person
> could have been really present during the journey? The question arose from
> this 'How many moments do we miss each day?'
>
> One person shared that he felt he missed 80%, and that he was continually
> thinking about the future.  The question arose 'How would things be for you
> if all that thinking wasn't there any more?'.
>
> A few moments of silence.
>
> I had a split second of feeling 'Oh no, they're supposed to talk!' and
> quickly came back to the moment and felt very present and aware of each
> person who was with me.
>
> Someone said "That was a really nice silence". And it was; because we,
> enough of us, were able just to be with each other, in the moment.
>
> When the formal end point arrived, I noted it. People asked how it had
> been for me and we then carried on talking for another half an hour.
>
> No-one took notes, so this is written up after the fact.
>
> The next day participants approached me and shared that they had their own
> experiences of being in the moment, since the session, one person on a bus
> journey, the other in a restaurant.
>
>
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