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<DIV><EM><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4>Thank you, Harrison. We
were talking about this very thing during yesterday's VOSonVOS Design Team
telephone conference. We were describing how much we wanted the
facilitators' page - where we are holding space - to be comprised of pictures,
poetry and perhaps audio - sensory stimulating pieces that bring the participant
into the whole with feeling. As we described these images, we realized
that we were FEELING them as we spoke and that we felt much more in communion
with each other and very much at peace with the process in a way we hadn't
before. </FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4></FONT></EM> </DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4>Blessings,</FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4>Toni
Petrinovich</FONT></EM></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=owenhh@mindspring.com href="mailto:owenhh@mindspring.com">Harrison
Owen</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 27, 2002 5:10
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Columbia OS</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>At 05:03 PM 4/27/2002 +1000, denis wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"> I have not worked in a
similiar situation since. However what I would<BR>have liked to try was 2
interpreters. One to talk for me and one to listen<BR>for me.
Hopefully that way I would have got all of the asides etc.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>On
the subject of listening to "asides" -- I have a rather different take. A
substantial number of the Spaces I open occur in situations where the language
spoken is not my own. In the past 4 months, this has included Serbian, Hebrew,
Arabic, Swedish and Beloxi (a strange tongue they speak in Mississippi). I
find that missing out on the words forces me to a deeper level of
communication -- that 95% done without words. My relationship to the group is
mediated by such things as movement (dance) smell, gut feelings (intuition),
taste, color to name a few. By missing out on all the good gossip, I find that
I am much more attuned to the flavor of the whole group -- which I think is
where my attention should be in order to be fully present to the whole body of
folks. So what might seem like a disadvantage is, in my experience, a real
plus. I have never felt that I missed anything essential, and it also seems to
carry over into English speaking environments -- where it is all too easy to
get trapped by the discussion and then move into the "expert, fix-it"
role.<BR><BR>Harrison <BR><BR><X-SIGSEP>
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