[OSList] florian fischer has passed away

[Catherine Pfaehler via OSList]

Dear All

Florian's clarity had impressend me through his posts to oslist. I became
curious about who this person was and wrote to him off-list, which
established our contact sometime in 2004. 

Then there was a time when I was no longer subscribed to OSLIST because of
too little time for reading. During this time, he forwarded Roger's email
that he was looking for somebody in Switzerland who could facilitate an OS
gathering both in German and French - Roger had been introduced to OST by
Lisa in Singapore shortly before and wanted to use it in his work. Florian
asked me if this was not something I would like to consider. I answered
"only if you help". So the two of us met Roger in Basel and received the
task to organize a bilingual week-end in Open Space in Switzerland, my first
paid OS facilitation. Florian required that I do the front work; he was my
patient backup for all the many questions I had, and we had agreed to split
the money we would receive. This was a very empowering way to allow me to
become an OS facilitator. 

We had later agreed that he would be the German speaking facilitator for the
event and I would do the French part. Two days before the event in July
2005, Florian wrote to me that he couldn't be present because of a serious
health issue. After a moment of fear, I thought "well, the Universe believes
I can do this without Florian, so I better believe this too..." and informed
Roger. Florian had already contacted Wolfgang asking if he would do the
German speaking part as my assistent. It was a rich and very full three days
- I didn't only do the necessary OST announcements, but had to translate the
many announcements of workshops by participants. I was exhausted afterwards,
but as always, it worked out perfectly well, empowering not only the
participants in a very difficult theme, but myself as well...

In October 2007, my then husband Stefan and I had booked a week in the
beautiful cottages of Florian, Katharina and Shirin in Rodalquilar,
Andalucia (Casas Eva, www.rodalquilar.com). The day before we were scheduled
to arrive there, we received the shocking news that my daughters, their
father and spouse had died in Thailand (I had posted about this to oslist
then, as the Open Space principles were utterly helpful for me then once
more...). Florian, his wife Katharina and their daughter Shirin were there
to receive us despite of everything, offering their internet and telephone
connection for the necessary actions and holding space for us in a most
beautiful, supportive way, cooking for us, seeing to it that we slept enough
- being totally present and totally invisible at the same time, as we all
strive to be when holding space.

Life has allowed us to be in touch lightly yet intensely, to be witnesses of
essential moments in each other's lives, and to honour who the other was.
What a gift...

Gratefully, Catherine 


Catherine Pfaehler
lic.oec.HSG
Open Space Begleitung
Burckhardtstrasse 2
CH - 3008 Bern
Telefon +41-(0)31 - 536 05 31
Mobile +41-(0)76 - 488 15 46
c.pfaehler at open-space-begleitung.ch
www.open-space-begleitung.ch

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Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Oktober 2015 21:04
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Betreff: OSList Digest, Vol 54, Issue 30

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