[OSList] About time and napping

Fri Jul 11 04:17:21 PDT 2014

Dear Kari,

when I go through the various kinds of things people can do at an os 
event (design a project, have a collegiate consultation, mull over a 
wicked issue, write a poem, play...) I usually also say that 
participants have used breakout session time for a nap.
In one case this was picked up by a participant as an "isssue" he 
invited to.
In a couple of cases there was the wish in the planning group to 
actually arrange for a napping space (this happened, for instance, at an 
os event I facilitated in the space of the Heilig Kreuz Church where we 
had the 2010 WOSonOS...)..

Take care and a pretty tested way of taking care of yourself is to just 
take a nap

I will take a nap during the soccer match on Sunday...

Cheers
mmp

On 11.07.2014 12:58, Kári Gunnarsson wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Love it!
>>
>>
>>
>> Ah..., who is the stroller for Toke?
>>
>>
>>
>> :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 9, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Toke Paludan Møller wrote:
>>
>>
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>> Hi friends of napping and open spaces
>>
>>
>>
>> What an important sharing going on here….
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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….
>>
>>   - 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Toke
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>>
>> Intergenerational napping practice yesterday in the Danish woods….
>>
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>> <IMG_7586.jpg>
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>> Toke Paludan Moeller
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>> SKYPE: tokemoeller
>>
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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
>>
>> *From:*OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] *On Behalf
>> Of *Artur Silva
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 08, 2014 4:59 PM
>> *To:* OSLIST New Adress
>> *Subject:* [OSList] About time and napping
>>
>> To Harrison,
>>
>>  From Artur
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>> Napping can Dramatically Increase Learning, Memory, Awareness, and More
>> <http://themindunleashed.org/2014/04/napping-can-dramatically-increase-learning.html>
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