[OSList] About time and napping
Michael M Pannwitz
mmpannwitz at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 00:46:12 PDT 2014
Dear Therese,
enjoyed reading your email.
To me, everyone lives in open space all the time. Regardless of whether
I or others or they themselves are aware of it. Granted, sometimes the
space does not look very open or hardly exists. When there is none,
things are over (at least on this planet).
Even before running into OST I never felt comfortable sitting in rows
and listening to someone up front, I guess it always felt like the
horrible school I attended as a teenager. As I got into OST more I
discovered that I really had to avoid those kinds of situations for
myself. I was not bored but it is more like panic or threat of vomiting.
I do hope others dont have such uncomfortable reactions... it has
expanded my time (the other coin of space/time) considerably, however.
Naps, even though they take time, definitely expand my time.
Greetings from Berlin where things have not yet returned to normal
mmp
On 15.07.2014 08:33, Therese Fitzpatrick wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>> <mailto:toke at interchange.dk> <toke at interchange.dk
>> <mailto: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 <tel:%2B45%202616%206919>
>> toke at interchange.dk <mailto:toke at interchange.dk>
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>>
>>
>> On 09/07/2014, at 17.44, "Harrison Owen"
>> <hhowen at verizon.net <mailto: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
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>> <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 <mailto: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
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> On 09/07/2014, at 10.02, Michael M Pannwitz
>> <mmpannwitz at gmail.com <mailto: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
>>
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>> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 08, 2014 4:59 PM
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>> To Harrison,
>>
>> From Artur
>>
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