[OSList] I am fresh In the os community

[Lisa Heft]

Welcome Salva.

And well said, dear Florian.

I am one who thinks that yes, everything is worthwhile. Everything.

However: to me, the Law of Two Feet is about several things.

It is about stepping into what has heart and meaning for you. Stepping  
in to sit in the unknown because there is truth there, stepping in to  
ask a different question because you bring rich difference, stepping  
in to claim your voice if you feel it has been erased, stepping in to  
fully engage if the stories in your head were preventing you from  
really truly listening to the stories being told and shared right next  
to and in front of you. Stepping in out of wonder, and curiosity.  
Stepping back in after having been elsewhere. About being seen, or  
instead, fully witnessing for others.

It is also about stepping out and away. Stepping out when you feel you  
have reached saturation and capacity. Stepping out when it is time for  
you to care for yourself or your loved ones. Stepping out when you  
feel all is going wonderfully and there are additional places you feel  
you can contribute. Stepping out to breathe and have some nutrition  
because it is better for the work. Stepping out to make space for  
others to emerge as co-leaders.

When I explain the Law of Two Feet and the Butterflies and Bumblebees,  
I explain it as the fact that self care is indeed care for the group,  
and its work. Self care creates the space for maximum learning and  
productivity. Caring for self, and others in doing so, is part of the  
nutrient-rich environment that invites puzzlement, intuition, voice,  
difference, engagement, release, energy and discovery. Butterflies  
catch our eye just for a moment, and they are beautiful, and they  
remind us to notice, and be amazed, and see things. Bumblebees are  
deliverers of outsider questions, and interconnection, and cross- 
pollenating ideas - not all of which are easy or comfortable, but all  
of which are rich with nutrition.

I cannot know your world, Salva, but I feel your emotion, your  
frustration, your gifts, and I feel you as community.

Welcome, Salva - we are enriched by your voice, your passion, your  
concerns and your presence.

Lisa


Lisa Heft
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
President Emerita, Open Space Institute US
Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution
Opening Space



On Sep 7, 2013, at 6:00 AM, fischer florian wrote:

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> Am 07.09.2013 um 08:09 schrieb sos1910:
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>> ......the question I keep asking myself now: is it right for me and  
>> the world to apply the law of the 2feet?what is meant to happen  
>> will happen? Is it moral? Or are we butterflies and bumblebies? .....
>> Salwa

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