[OSList] About time and napping
Harrison Owen
hhowen at verizon.net
Tue Jul 15 08:13:50 PDT 2014
Classic: “The correct length of my nap is the time I nap when I can.”
Harrison
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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
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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
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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….
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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
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