[OSList] About time and napping

Mon Jul 14 23:33:01 PDT 2014

I was surprised to read that all OS facilitators did not feel free to take
naps whenever they feel called to do so. I live in OS. Always. People
around me don't always know I am in OS but it does not matter as long as I
do.

I have taken at least one nap a day my entire life, except for rare
interludes when I had structured jobs. but even with 9-5 jobs and a toddler
who needed family time with her mama, sometimes I would have to take a nap
before tending to her dinner and her need to be with me.

I was recently at a single, all-day workshop that kinda bored me. I had
hope that things would improve, otherwise I would have left. And I guess I
had curiosity to see what was going to happen, another reason I did not
leave. What did I do?  I went to the back of the room and took a nap on the
floor. It was an event where someone up front did all the talking. I always
need a nap when I find myself expected to just sit and listen, no dialogue,
no movement, not even permission to 'take care of one's self', with the
sheeple waiting until a break is announced to use the restroom. I have
never been able to conform that way which is why, the instant I first heard
of OS I knew I had found something vital for me.

I am surprised to read OS facilitators asking if it is okay to take a nap
as the OS facilitator:  of course everything is right in OS if you feel
called to do it.

Harrison:  I have only attended a few of the same events as you and I don't
think you were  the facilitator of those few events. But I can assure you
that when you disappeared here and there, people noticed.  You are a
powerful being and your energy, or its absence, is always noted, I
suspect.  Of course, these few events we both attended, some years ago now,
were full of OS people or about OS and you started OS so of course your
presence has much energy for an OS crowd.

The correct length of my nap is the time I nap when I can. On those rare
occasions when I actually set an alarm because I have to pay attention to
time, the nap is usually a failure.

The best sleep of my life comes while napping. Always has.

In Mexico there is a tradition of an afternoon siesta. Or nap.

I lived in Bogotå for a year in the seventies:  everything, or close to
it,  closed from noonish to two or three (my memory on precise hours is
fuzzy). It was comparable to a siesta.

Nappers are more highly evolved, imho. And I am not joking.

I can take a nap at 7 p.m., a shortie, and then sleep soundly for the night
at 11 p.m.

Once, as the facilitator for an OS event, I fell asleep on a sofa in the
main meeting room. All the breakouts were being held elsewhere but people
came in and out to look at the marketplace, check the schedule, etc. When I
awoke, I was surrounded by several people, sitting where they could,
talking all around me. No one questioned my nap. As I awoke, I felt I was
surrounded by light beings, or angels, with all the smiling and nodding and
warmth.

Naps are always okay. And sometimes as the Mass Pike story tells us, a
sleepy driver absolutely must nap.

Long ones, short ones, cosy beds, hard floors, music, silence, permission
or not. Naps are always okay.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Daniel Mezick <dan at newtechusa.net> wrote:

>  I often drive the interstate highway (Mass Pike) for 2 hours home at
> night, from Boston MA to my home in North Guilford CT.
>
> One time, I literally fell asleep. Driving. I woke up to a **bump**.
> I look up, I am driving, it is night-time, I am looking at the car in
> front of me. Apparently I touched this car with my car. At 65 MPH!
> (We were going at similar speeds, him 65MPH, me maybe 66MPH, so I kind of
> nudged the car in front of me.....)
>
> The driver of that that car immediately pulled away at about 90 miles an
> hour, putting distance on me like a bad habit.
>
> There was no one else on the road.
>
> I pulled over, scared to death, jolted with massive levels of adrenalin.
> Eventually I settled down and slept for about half an hour.
>
> And drove very slowly home.
>
>
> Every  since then, whenever I drive at night, if I am the least bit tired,
> I just pull over and take a nap.
>
> And it is amazing. 15 minutes of shuteye makes everything right.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On 7/11/14 10:33 AM, Spark Stanley Park wrote:
>
> Dear Michael,
>
> Good to hear!!!^^
> 2014. 7. 11. 오후 8:17에 "Michael M Pannwitz" <mmpannwitz at gmail.com> 님이 작성:
>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers to the art of napping!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> have a good summer with lots of napping going on
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> kindly
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Toke
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Intergenerational napping practice yesterday in the Danish woods….
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <IMG_7586.jpg>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Toke Paludan Moeller
>>>>
>>>> SKYPE: tokemoeller
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> VAT number: 1350 6035
>>>>
>>>> Toke - Mobile  +45 2616 6919
>>>>
>>>> Monica -  Mobile  +45 2072 1019
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Skype name: tokemoeller
>>>>
>>>> www.interchange.dk
>>>>
>>>> interchange at interchange.dk
>>>>
>>>> http://interchange.dk/calender/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 09/07/2014, at 10.02, Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> Napping can Dramatically Increase Learning, Memory, Awareness, and More
>>>> <
>>>> http://themindunleashed.org/2014/04/napping-can-dramatically-increase-learning.html
>>>> >
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>>>> In some places, towns essentially shut down in the afternoon while
>>>> everyone goes home for a siesta. Unfortunately, in the…
>>>>
>>>> View on *themindunleashed.org*
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