[OSList] No silence in opening

[Harold Shinsato via OSList]

Thanks Chris - I appreciate the tip about counting breaths. Much better 
than staring at my watch!

     Harold

On 6/15/15 8:25 PM, Chris Corrigan via OSList wrote:
> Yes to this…
>
> These days no matter what process I am doing, if I offer a minute of 
> silence, instead of looking at a clock, I just count twelve slow 
> breaths.  That way you don;t make people anxious and you get a little 
> meditation practice in.  The longest I ever did this for was 15 
> minutes with a group of 180 theological educators.  I counted 180 
> breaths.  Many of them said they had never sat that long in silence 
> with other human beings before.  We did it to allow people to reflect 
> on an important and energetic conflict in the gathering.  It changed 
> everything, and was indeed the simplest liberating structure I can 
> think of.
>
> C

-- 
Harold Shinsato
harold at shinsato.com <mailto:harold at shinsato.com>
http://shinsato.com
twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20150619/aeb95ae4/attachment-0003.htm>