[OSList] Reflections on VOSonOS Day 3

[Lucas Cioffi via OSList]

Good day, Everyone.

All within one hour this morning, I had the great pleasure of speaking in
groups of 2 and 3 with people from Norway, German, Portugal, and
Australia.  Waking up at 5:50am my time knocked me out of my regular
routine and gave me space to be present.

After the audio and video chats, I was browsing some links that people
shared about their work during this morning's sessions.  Then I started
searching through the OS List archives to find people I spoke with.  The
email below jumped out at me, especially the video highlighted in yellow at
the bottom.  Having met Alan Stewart yesterday, reading that email below
was quite a different experience for me than it was when he sent it a few
months ago.  The difference this time is that I could actually hear him
reading this email to me in his warm and inviting tone, now that we had a
chance to have a conversation

I've been on this list for about 6 years and have never attended a
WOSonOS.  Hearing Alan mention the Marysville WOS2002 during a session
yesterday and the fondness with which he described it made me very curious
to learn more.  The video he shared in yellow (below) easily communicates
how special that event was for all who attended.

The OS community has been rolling with tremendous momentum for 20+ years
before I started subscribing to the list in '09.  I always felt that I
missed the party, since so much has happened before I got here, but having
been on Tricia's OS Hotline events on Tuesdays over the past few months and
having participated in these online VOSonOS sessions over the past two
days, I get a sense of how active this community is right now–all the great
work and all the edges of the OS folks are currently exploring.

Marysville was overcome by a devastating fire in 2009, seven years after
the video below.  It's a reminder to me that the work of opening space is
both temporary and urgent.  I look forward to the remaining two days of
VOSonOS and I also look forward to reading this list with a more personal
connection, now that I've been able to meet and learn from many of you over
the past two days.  Have a great weekend, wherever you are.

Lucas Cioffi
Founder, QiqoChat
Charlottesville, VA
Mobile: 917-528-1831



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From: Alan Stewart via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
Date: Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:50 PM
Subject: [OSList] This Was My Town [[Marysville]
To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>


G'day fellow participants at WOS2002 and All

I 'happened' on this song <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0LpKT_-Kmw>
recently through hearing Greg Champion, a well known singer and song writer
<http://gregchampion.com.au/music/> in Australia, on our local radio in
Adelaide.

For it captures the grief experienced when most of the lovely little town
of Marysville (near Melbourne) in which WOS2002 was held was destroyed in a
huge bushfire in 2009.



After playing the song several times it came over to me as a beautifully
crafted and poignant reminder of the wondrous time which was had by those
who were fortunate and privileged to participate in this particular
international get together of OST practitioners.  And of how ephemeral life
can be.

The venue for our gathering, the majestic largely wooden construction
Marylands Hotel - in the heart of Marysville - suited our purposes
beautifully, not least as we all housed under one roof. One of my favourite
memories was going on a night walk in the nearby forest.

There was nothing left of Marylands after the 2009 fire.

A sense of this place, its setting, and the process of the WOS event can be
seen in this exquisite little video
<http://openspaceworld.ning.com/video/wosonosinoz-2002> made by David
Smith.

Also featured in the video is the facilitator of the event, Fr Brian
Bainbridge. Brian, as many would recall fondly, was a staunch promoter of
OST and attended every WOS up until WOS2009 held in Taipei in Taiwan. Sadly
he died shortly after this.



Please pass this on if you wish to others who you consider may appreciate
seeing and hearing it.

Looking forward.

Go well

Alan

Alan Stewart, PhD
www.multimindsolutions.com
Conversare.net <http://conversare.net>
Adelaide

‘If there’s dancing count me in.’
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