[OSList] medicine wheel? anyone?

Tue Sep 4 08:17:57 PDT 2012

like michael, i stopped telling the medicine wheel story a long time
ago.  the story i usually tell is about invitation, and what they've
already done.  i like to notice before we finish how this happens so
to point out that keeping it going or repeating it can be pretty easy.

the story goes like this:  take a moment to look at what we just
did... somebody wrote a short note about something that mattered,
picked a time and a place, and sent it to everyone who might care.
you all cared and came.  some of you posted a few words about things
that matter to you, picked a time and a place and your breakouts
happened.  now you've got a book of notes in your hands... a few words
about things that matter.  so keeping this going can be as simple as
writing a short note and sending it to anyone you think might care.
get together.  do some work.  take some notes...

this storyline was triggered by overhearing a couple people talking as
they walked out of a meeting once... "this was really great," says the
one.  "yeah, we should do this every couple of years," says the other.
 "too long to wait!" i think to myself.

m

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On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:41 AM, agusj <agusjs2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I listened from Harrison some words that caused profound impact on me: "OS
> is a training for life." In that sense, I think to do a final reflection on
> the process is essential, because transformation only emerges when people
> find meaning for themselves about what they do. If we take into account that
> western culture is goal-oriented, if you do not guide the look to the
> process, most of the people won't be aware of what happened in between. For
> me, OS was transformative when I understood it as a training for life and
> not only as a mean to achieve some results, and this happened when I really
> paid attention to the conditions that make the OS process so powerful and I
> let me go through them. Only then I realized what had caused the OS in me as
> a person, and this was training for life...
>
> Greeting from Bogota
>
> Agustin
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> From: Michael M Pannwitz <mmpanne at boscop.org>
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> Subject: Re: [OSList] medicine wheel? anyone?
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> I stopped using the Medicine Wheel years ago when the thought crossed my
> mind, that this was more an interest (stake) of mine and had probably
> very little to do with my role of attempting to be fully present and
> completely invisible. Also, I began to feel that I was employing a
> "tool" in an attempt to have participants become more aware of what a
> grand experience they had just been through... is that really my
> business? Does it make more time and space for the forces of
> selforganisation?
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp
>
> On 04.09.2012 14:08, Harrison Owen wrote:
>> Not to twist thoughts or maybe bend minds – but I doubt that anything is
>> “essential” when it comes to facilitating an Open Space gathering, if
>> only because the fundamental process, (self organization) was there way
>> before OST. Not of our making or control. And if we did absolutely
>> nothing, self organization would roll on. BUT I believe we
>> (facilitators/practitioners/?) can add value by helping to bring this
>> elemental power of life to consciousness awareness. There are all sorts
>> of ways that can be done, but the more subtle the better. I always loved
>> the Medicine Wheel for its elegant simplicity and the way it wove
>> history and tradition into present experience. But is it essential? I
>> more than suspect that the only “essential” for a good OST is to learn
>> to do nothing at all…
>>
>> ho
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>> [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] *On Behalf Of *Raffi
>> Aftandelian
>> *Sent:* Monday, September 03, 2012 11:39 PM
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>> *Subject:* [OSList] medicine wheel? anyone?
>>
>> friends,
>>
>> craig's questions encouraged me to post about something i've been
>> meaning to ask for a while:
>>
>> i'm curious how much - if at all- do you use the medicine wheel
>> reflection activity described in the ost user's guide at the end of an
>> ost meeting.
>>
>> do you see it as an essential element of a carefully facilitated ost
>> meeting? or not?
>>
>> or is it best dropped ('one more thing not to do').
>>
>> in my training in ost it was presented as essential and for years i did
>> it and couldn't quite connect to it. but with time however, my
>> relationship to the medicine wheel changed. and i think it has lots of
>> value. at the very least it serves a role in bridging, bridging the
>> experience of the meeting to the monday after the meeting...and beyond.
>> as in, 'how do we take what we experienced here into our day to day life
>> in our organization?'
>>
>> also my curiousity comes from hardly ever seeing it mentioned on the
>> list...
>>
>> curious about your responses,
>>
>> much warmth,
>>
>> raffi
>>
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