[OSList] About time and napping

Fri Jul 11 03:58:55 PDT 2014

This is fascinating..
The supine posture: Having the front or ventral part bent backwards.
This as a sign of trust in others or a show of vulnerability, much open space.

If I understand this controversial topic correctly, then apart from
the personal benefits to my body, the nap is also a facilitation tool
and an essential part of open space and the law of two feet as part of
the butterfly behavior.

I sometimes say that the butterfly has some valued gifts to give to
the Open Space, apart from the opportunity, then it gives the feeling
of trust to contribute from the hart and to open up and be vulnerable,
step forward and offer your gifts. If the butterflies have been
removed, then I fear that I will be removed if I show vulnerability.

I wonder if I should find the courage to demonstrate the nap as part
of the facilitator opening in an urgent Open Space for a corporate
client.

In my minds eye it would go something like this:

- Sponsor opening speech:
Welcome, we have invited you here to <insert the urgent theme>. And
now I give the stage to our facilitator.

- Facilitator opening speech:
<The normal introduction about the blank wall, personal responsibility
and the principles> ..  But as I welcome you all to enter the center
and collect some writing papers, then I like to remember one of the
roles of the facilitator. It is to foster a culture of trust to create
a saver space for innovation. From the beginning of the Open Space as
Technology, the nap has been one of the most trust building tool there
is, I intent to use the most effective tools for our urgent theme
<restate theme>, and as you write our and announce your issues and
opportunities I will be here taking a nap. My assistant has a
microphone for topic announcements...

Now all I think about:
... How to be present while napping?

I will probably not do this and justify it by the imagination that I
am needed at the wall while the topic announcements is happen. But I
could add the nap as part of my formal practice, when I announce the
marketplace to be open. ...  This is interesting, I am adding a thing
to Open Space, not taking a thing away. or .. I am conflicted if a nap
is to add a thing or to remove a thing, that is I am removing me as
facilitator without removing my presence as one. ... There are many
questions, should I nap in the circle to the side or at the center, or
keep to the less intrusive nap by going to the side in the next room.

I wonder.

/ Kári

On 11 July 2014 07:31, toke at interchange.dk <toke at interchange.dk> wrote:
> Hi Harrison
>
> Ach supination!
>
> Thank you for a new word to describe this good activity.
>
> Me and my mate Sarah have evolved another nothern european word for this
> - we call it
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> schlafening
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> A nice cocktail of German and English but it may belong - like supine,
> supination and such to a new language for the art of napping....
> - the juice is in the pronounciation....
>
> :)
>
> Toke
> From my iPhone
> Toke Paludan Møller
> +45 2616 6919
> toke at interchange.dk
> www.interchange.dk
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> On 09/07/2014, at 17.44, "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:
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> This discussion about napping is definitely getting out of hand...to say
> nothing of control! As one who has taken no small amount of abuse over the
> years in regard to my proclivity for supination, I am simply delighted to
> see so many closet supinators coming out. “Supination,” by the way, is a
> word I made up ( I think). As you probably know, to be “supine” is to lie
> down, and that is the normal position of nappers – hence supination,
> supinator, supinated, etc. It is a great cover word, so you don’t give away
> the secret! And every arcane practice MUST have its secret nomenclature.
>
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>
> I confess that I supinate primarily for one reason: It feels good. Never
> according to plan, but always in response to need and situation. I have a
> sign in my office that says, “No day is so bad that it can’t be improved
> with a nap.” True! I find it also helps me to pace my energy expenditure. In
> fact I find that the critical time for a good supination is when I am over
> the top busy. It restores a sense of flow, purpose and presence. It also
> reminds me that I am really not essential. The world will turn all by itself
> J
>
>
>
> In the special situation of facilitating an Open Space, supination has a
> special value, I think. The supination of the facilitator say in ways that
> nothing else can – that The People are in Charge. Really, they do it all by
> themselves. And the fact that nobody ever really notices that I am absent
> drives the point home. Folks, It is your thing!
>
>
>
> So Supinate to your heart’s content – it will fix up just about anything, I
> find.
>
>
>
> Harrison
>
>
>
> From: OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of
> Tenneson Woolf
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 11:01 AM
> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
> Cc: mmpannwitz at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [OSList] About time and napping
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> Love it!
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> Ah..., who is the stroller for Toke?
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> :)
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> On Jul 9, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Toke Paludan Møller wrote:
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> Hi friends of napping and open spaces
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>
> What an important sharing going on here….
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> I too find it useful and kind to my self and others to nap at a good timing
> and an appropriate place during days of work and days of resting both -
> whenever possible.
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> My mother was a great teacher of this very human practice - she napped every
> day of her life between 20 minutes to 1 hour - and she lived until she was
> 94.
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> I became a practitioner early on and although I have wavered in my
> dedication during some years of getting too busy -  I am returning to the
> practice and enjoyment with very good fruits
>
> - similar to what you have all described….
>
>
>
> We had an one our intentional and collective napping during a Open space day
> at the warrior of the heart dojo in Croatia in 2012 - where 4 generation
> napped on the lawn together
>
> for 1 hour before we did the harvest / convergence after a days work in the
> Open space embrace….
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>  - it brought more consciousness and ease to the harvest of new
> understanding and wiser action steps.
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> Cheers to the art of napping!
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> have a good summer with lots of napping going on
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> :)
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> kindly
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> Toke
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> Intergenerational napping practice yesterday in the Danish woods….
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> Toke Paludan Moeller
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> On 09/07/2014, at 10.02, Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Artur, Harrison, Spark, Adriana and you other nappers out there,
>
> tell me what works for you around napping: time of day, length, space,
> light, naked, clothed... I have been experimenting (trying a regular rhythm
> or when I feel I need a nap, short such as 15 minutes and up to an hour,
> setting a timer or leave it to whenever I wake up...) and its not really
> working for me, yet!
> While I hate to admit it, it annoys me when people grin or joke about my
> napping attempts.
> In my os work, I have taken naps. Once I did it in a semi-public space and
> was rudely attacked by a participant: How dare you take a nap when things
> are really chaotic here! After that I chose out-of-sight spaces.
> When I take a nap while a soccer game is going on (in Germany its serious
> business and everyone is off their whatever after the game last nite) I dont
> tell anyone!!
>
> I would not bother you but since it seems to be such an essential activity I
> thought I dare, its been an important issue for me!
>
> Have a nap-rich day
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp
>
> On 09.07.2014 00:09, Harrison Owen wrote:
>
> Thank you Artur! One of the few things I am absolutely positive about!
> Naps are essential!!!
>
> ho
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