[OSList] Please describe your experience of silence in Open Space events and Happy New Year!

[Carmela Ariza via OSList]

Dear colleagues
Happy new year to all!
I would like to ask all about your experience of silence in OST - please describe your experience of silence while facilitating or as a participant in an open space event. I will put together all responses and share it again with the rest of the OSList subscribers...
I would also like to share with you a poem I wrote yesterday on the Many Faces of Silence...(see below). You may also read this on my poetry blogspot: Carmela's Poems and Prayers: THE MANY FACES OF SILENCE
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THE MANY FACES OF SILENCE

by: Carmela Ariza31 December 2015, Panglao,Bohol, 10:22AM


 
INTENTIONAL SILENCE


 
I seek the woods

And the woods find me

I listen to the log

Lying, waiting

Eventual decay 

In the offing


 
PUNCTUATED SILENCE


 
Storms 

Bring me to a standstill

Blood 

Rushing through my viens

Dread

Anxiously anticipating


 
DEAFENING SILENCE


 
Whirring thoughts

In a constant refrain

Burying oneself 

In work or laughter

This is a sentence 

Without reprieve


 
VEXED SILENCE


 
Incensed

Enraged

Outraged

Furious

!*@#^)(>$@

I walk away


 
PENSIVE SILENCE


 
Lost in deep thought

Questioning 

Deliberate pondering

Wistful longing

Freefalling insights

Plucking wisdom


 
MOONSTRUCK SILENCE


 
Nervous but ecstatic

Consumed with desire

Smitten kitten

Tickled teakettle

Frolicking in the rapids

Restless, definitely notloveless


 
HEARTBROKEN SILENCE


 
Exposed

Vulnerable

Pricked

Betrayed

Inconsolable

Silent


 
EMERGENT SILENCE


 
Nine months in waiting

Coming out

Being true to oneself

Release and deliverance

Reaping, fruiting

Healing, in the fullness of time


 
SACRED SILENCE


 
In deep sorrow or deep pain

A child’s embrace givescomfort

In contemplation

A coming home to the core

In harmony with nature

Oneness


 
THANKFUL SILENCE


 
Forbearance in difficulttimes

Appreciation for what givesrise to my existence

Reaching out to help theneedy

Grateful surrender

Accepting the present

Here and now



I wish everyone OPEN SPACES FOR SILENCE THE WHOLE YEAR!
BLESSINGS to all!
Carms
 True happiness is a state of mind.
Happiness is not a consequence of things that happen. 
Do not pursue happiness - practice it. 
Sing, even if you do not sound good. 
Smile, even when things go wrong. 
Create happiness, and happy you will be.
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