[OSList] Feeling blessed!

[Harold Shinsato via OSList]

Happy Birthday, Adriana! I felt blessed reading what your work made 
possible at the students congress.

     Thank you!
     Harold

On 5/28/15 4:35 AM, Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring via OSList wrote:
> 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
>
>
> -- 
>
> 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 <http://www.diazberrio.com>

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Harold Shinsato
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