[OSList] Feeling blessed!

[Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring via OSList]

Hello dear Open Space list members:

I want to share with you my feeling of gratefulness this may 28th morning.
I don't know if it happens to you, but today is my birthday and this fact
made me reflect on what is important in mi life and guess what I felt?
 I felt really blessed to be a person to knows how to open the space for
others (of course I also love being a participant my self!)

This Saturday I was invited to a congress where I had the opportunity to
open the space at a students congress.
This was just a 2 hour moment with the whole group. It seemed a little
short to me but it was amazing to see all this groups sharing, having so
much fun, engaged and surprised by this new experience for them. It seamed
so simple at the same time

And what made me appreciate so much the importance of this open space
possibility (and all the other open space experiences in my life) is the
other part of my life that I was remembering tonight.

I was a student at the Mexico French Lycee from 5 years old to 18 year old.
For a few years in my class there was an other student which family name
was Aleman. (The teacher use to call all the names of the students, in
alphabetical other to mark on the list who was there and who was missing).
When the teacher said:"Aleman" she would answer back "Présente"
*After this one only word I never had a chance in 14 years to hear her
voice, to talk to her, to meet her.* And we attended, day after day, the
same call room for several years!
She was shy and he was friends with only two other girls...but this same
thing happened whit other students in my group and during years, and years
of attending this school I never had a chance to had any conversation with
so many other students there!
We did not have a space or a way to experience that. We had the
"récreation" the pause that was 30 minutes every day but in that time we
would eat, rest, walk and talk... only with the same friends in small
groups 2,3,4 or 5 but never with a bigger group,at least not me.
 I had my friends, many of them, and I would talk to them  yes, but as a
group we never had a space for a conversation, *not even a 2 hour space for
a meaningful conversation in 14 years* of being there every day! ! Or even
as stupid conversation would had be a special opportunity to here my
companions voices but this NEVER occur in 14 years!

Remembering that, today I am very happy to be able to offer this
opportunity to a group. It is extra ordinary  to have a space to share and
to be able to listen to more voices, more opinions, to many ideas!
And I wanted to share this reflections with you, in case that in a certain
moment you forget about what we are offering  as possibility to a group
when we open the space.
It is a very special and important moment!
Thanks!
Adriana


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Dra. Adriana Díaz-Berrio  CRHA
438 338 1654 (Montreal, Canadá)
(52) 442 212 63 92 (Querétaro fijo)
(52) 55 13 28 19 12 (México DF)
www.diazberrio.com
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