[OSList] WOSonOS

Thu Oct 18 12:32:40 PDT 2012

So often I let group mails slip by me once I am back in the fast flow  
of life back home. But here I am replying to you all, and just  
reaching out with brief contact. This says a lot about the lasting  
effect of our meeting. Thank you
Amerie x

On 18 Oct 2012, at 10:59, Eleder_BuM wrote:

> 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
>
> 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 listened 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  
> experience of 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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