[OSList] Skye Listening for the Harmonies

[Tony Budak]

Dear Sky,
Rock On! Thanks so very much for sharing your thoughtful kind insights.
For Co-Creating Harmonies,
Tony Budak

On 10/21/2019 7:43 AM, Skye Hirst via OSList wrote:
>
> How does Open Space Technology help us experience harmony, 
> wholeness?This may well be the most ineffable idea in today’s busy 
> world.Life seems to present moments of such harmoniousness and we may 
> notice them when they happen and then forget them.They don’t get 
> highlighted as something possible on any dependable scale, so they get 
> passed over, dismissed as a “nice” experience but most likely we don’t 
> share them.However, the artists among us will capture them through 
> their medium. We love the feelings this work gives us, this reminder 
> of those numinous realities.
>
> What happens in OST?What are those realities we experience more often 
> than not while participating in a concentrated time around an 
> invitation question, an urgency, a group of people sitting in circle, 
> creating an agenda and sitting with questions, getting to deeper ones?
>
> I believe OST is micro of a macro reality that life’s organism ways 
> provide for us in every moment.“Come to the circle, tell us your tale, 
> you are not the only one who is hurting.”This phrase from a song 
> written in the 80s by a friend, speaks of the power of OST.There is 
> something so powerful about being reminded, you get to choose how and 
> where and when you give your attention.It has been called an antidote 
> to the world of hierarchical dominating meetings, work life and 
> organizationally dead structures.
>
> So I say, I want to capture the ineffable, but how silly that is.And 
> yet, we can point to shared experience, to knowledge that goes beyond 
> words, to celebrate this most amazing, awe-generating process abiding 
> in living structures, living “becoming” events that are 
> /alivenmaking/.Let’s listen for the harmonies, for the moments of felt 
> sensing our wholeness, our unity, and our differences at the same 
> time.This is a “both and world,” not an “either/or” one.It takes work 
> only in that we remember what we can easily forget with distractions 
> and constant “busy-ness.”Notice when those moments of peacefulness 
> enter into the “field” when we take a long breath and let it out 
> fully, sitting with one another without needing to fix or change 
> ourselves, or the other. What are your experiences of “fulfillment” of 
> listening in to deep knowledge of being alive?
>
> One OST participant spoke of it as something one cannot talk about, 
> but to experience it is to have lived, feeling aliveness and we want 
> it more and more. Then we want others to have the experience so we try 
> to talk about it.I say, “Come to the Circle, tell us your tale, you 
> are not the only one who is hurting.”
>
> The storyteller tells his tales and we remember those times his 
> stories happened in our lives, or we make sense of a story we have not 
> understood about our tale. Then we begin again with a new story.Keep 
> coming to the circle, telling us your tales, one and all.
>
> Blessings to all this week for great WOSONOS in DC.
>
> Song */Healing Circle/* is by Julia Hickory 1984, Album Joyful Noise 
> and Friends */Birdsong Morning/*
>
> *Healing Circle*
>
> Come to the Circle
>
> Listen to our tales
>
> You will find you’re not the only one who’s hurting
>
> And the light may shine in
>
> This is where we begin
>
> The magic of our healing
>
> Alone in your room, you think you’re the only one
>
> And you’re wondering if your might be crazy
>
> So you lock all the pain and the shame deep inside
>
> And your skies are always dark and hazy
>
> But if you Come to the Circle
>
> Tell us your tales
>
> The light will shine in,
>
> This is where we begin
>
> The magic work of our healing.
>
> You are not unimportant, we need all the words
>
> And the melodies to harmonize
>
> The darker the shadows, the brighter the sun
>
> And your tears are the stars in our eyes.
>
> So won’t you Come to the Circle
>
> Tell us your tales
>
> And the light will shine in
>
> This is where we begin
>
> The magic work of our healing
>
>
>
> -- 
> *Skye HIrst, PhD*
> *Autognomics*
> /Conversations in Radical WholeKnowing
> /
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>
> */"There is no final fact." /* Alfred North Whitehead
>
> */"Nature ever flows, stands never still. Motion or change is her mode 
> of existence."/***
>
> *- Ralph Waldo Emerson*
>
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