[OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 100, Issue 4

Sun Aug 4 14:26:21 PDT 2019

Re sacred space

Hi. I’ve written fairly extensively on this: both in my longer piece: “A
Way Home: Field Notes Living in Open Space” which is somewhere in the
worldwide OS archives (I sent it to Michael Herman for that purpose). And
in an article I wrote about Spirited Work, a seven year long Open Space
community of practice that met seasonally. We focused each Season on Angela
Arrien’s four fold way and we used OST as our organizational scaffolding.
If you want to read either of these, let me know, please.
Anne.m.stad at gmail.com. Happy to share them with you. 😍

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>    1. Re: sacred space (Harrison Owen)
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> From: "Harrison Owen" <hhowensr at gmail.com>
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> The ?reflections? I have used came in large part from the work of Angie
> Arrien particularly The Fourfold Way. It is all in the User?s Guide (all
> editions). And I?m told there will shortly be  a French translation of the
> 3rd edition ? in case you to practice/use you French.
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> From: OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of
> Thomas Perret via OSList
> Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2019 2:39 PM
> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
> Cc: Thomas Perret
> Subject: Re: [OSList] sacred space
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> Just beautiful.
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> All is possible together
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> On 3 Aug 2019, at 3.26, Birgitt Williams via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
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> Dear friends and colleagues,
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> Over the years, I have given considerable thought and reflection to the
> concept of open space, including what Open Space Technology is, what it
> does. I have considered why it is a life nurturing strategy to use Open
> Space Technology as often as possible, everywhere in the world, and as
> often as possible within an organization.
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> 1992, my first exposure to Open Space Technology by Harrison Owen. I had
> already experienced circle work in other forms, the power of the circle.
> Now I had a different treasure to experience, a different format of using
> circle work. During the Open Space Technology training, Harrison didn't
> mention the reflective questions he asked at the end of an OST meeting. I
> am not sure that they are in 'The User's Guide'. They might be. They are
> definitely in our Genuine Contact program workbook about Working with Open
> Space Technology because I found them to be so powerful, offering an
> exceptional moment for insights to pop to the surface.
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> I sat in rapt attention at the end of the closing circle as Harrison asked
> "during this time together, what did you experience about leadership? about
> vision? about community? about management?". The answers were overwhelming,
> positive, insightful, and glorious. The people expressed visceral, not only
> intellectual responses that leadership popped up everywhere, that a shared
> vision was felt, that community felt surprisingly present, and that within
> the structure, self management flowed. For me in that set of moments of the
> reflection, I had an insight that affected the rest of my life, my career,
> and was the catalytic moment of the development of the Genuine Contact
> program.
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> I related what happened in that moment to what Marianne Williamson wrote,
> also published in that same year A Return to Love: Reflections on the
> Principles of a Course in Miracles. You probably know the quotation I am
> referring to as Nelson Mandela used it in a powerful speech. Here are
> Marianne's words "?Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our
> deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not
> our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be
> brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
> You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There
> is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel
> insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were
> born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in
> some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we
> unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As
>   we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates
> others.?.
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> I realized that Open Space Technology provided a window into what is. It
> provided a window into the light of the people gathered, their power beyond
> measure, their brilliance, beauty, talent, the beautiful spirit in each and
> every person gathered and the beauty of the spirit of the collective, the
> genius of the collective. The reflection questions helped me to understand
> the power of this window that is Open Space Technology into what is, into
> what already exists, into what every part of my being knew was sacred.
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> Just as I believe we are all enlightened, simply needing to pause,
> breathe, mediate to develop our awareness of the sacred of our being, I
> find OST the best tool to assist a group of people develop awareness that
> they are much more than they believe themselves to be, capable of much more
> from the sacred, from the field of all possibilities. OST assists us in
> developing our capacity to view the field of what is, and what can be
> further creating in the ever expanding field. OST assists us in developing
> our capacity, with curiosity, wonder, joy, love to work with the field, and
> to add our creations to the expansion of the field, a field always present,
> always expanding, and accessible by all of us individually, as groups, as
> collectives. I do not think of this field as 'open space'. I think of it as
> sacred space. It is free, it is available, it invites us if we choose to
> have eyes to see it and ears to hear it.
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> I appreciate Harrison Owen capturing the elements of a useful window, Open
> Space Technology, writing about it, training us in it, and inviting people
> everywhere to go ahead and use it, without fees going back to him. The
> window takes us into the sacred space that is, the sacred space that
> includes exceptional insights, conversations, relationships, and results.
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> For me, I understood that the training lies in how to work with Open Space
> Technology, to position it within an organization for the organization to
> have the best possible harvest from allowing such a window in their
> organization...once or multiple times..or as a way of operating daily.
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> The Working With Open Space Technology module of the Genuine Contact
> program emerged from my quest and my fascination with the first workshop in
> Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1999. Trainings based on this module
> continue in multiple locations annually. A schedule of offerings is at
> genuinecontact.net. Of note, three offerings are coming up soon.
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> 1. in the Netherlands by Doris Gottlieb, Thomas Herrmann, Anna Caroline
> Turk in the Netherlands Sept 3-5  <
> https://genuinecontact.net/events/ost-amsterdam-201909/>
> https://genuinecontact.net/events/ost-amsterdam-201909/
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> 2. in Washington DC area right before WOSONOS by Anna Caroline Turk and
> Thomas Herrmann Oct 22-24  <
> https://truthcircles.com/open-space-washington/>
> https://truthcircles.com/open-space-washington/
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> 3. and the offer of Birgitt Williams and Rachel Bolton online three
> Fridays in a row Oct 18, 25 and Nov 1 from 9am to 12:30  <
> https://www.dalarinternational.com/curriculum/open-space-technology/>
> https://www.dalarinternational.com/curriculum/open-space-technology/. We
> also have a self study option plus one to one mentoring featured on that
> page for people who come  to us wanting to learn how to work with OST asap
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> in genuine contact,
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> Birgitt Williams
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> Supporting Next Level Leadership "Leading So People Will Lead"
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