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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;font-style:italic'>Harrison <span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Wrote:</span></font></i><i><font size=2 color=navy><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;font-style:italic'>“For ourselves, how do we open our personal space so
that in this present moment we can be fully here -- fully alive? And for our
neighbors, colleagues, clients and friends, how can we open that communal space
so breath (and meaningful conversation) becomes a possibility? Opening this
sort of space is rather different, I think, from filling the air with trite
platitudes and the power of positive thinking. It goes to a deeper place.”</span></font></i><i><font
size=2 color=navy><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>I am thinking that what if I just could live the principles and the law <span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>- <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>always</span></b>
think that I am meeting the right people, that whatever happens is the right
thing, that when it’s starts its starts and when its over it is and if I don’t like
it – take my feet to where I better would like to be. It looks so easy but it’s
so difficult just for one to live, to “walk the talk” in every days life.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But there where it has to start isn’t
it – if we all start right where we are I am sure that it will make a different
because through my behaviour I will affect others. As a tiny example I hade a
conversation to day with my very best friend and we where talking about that
she should spend here time where she wanted to spend it and not where she thought
she was supposed to because of traditions, expectations etc. If she had went to
where she was supposed to and not wanted to – it would have shown through negative
energy.</span></font><font size=2 color=navy><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>So I think that one way to open my personal space is to live the
principles and the law, although I will have to deal with fears (my own as well
as others), breaking “behaviour rules”, and most important finding my own truth.
</span></font><font size=2 color=navy><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>And in my ongoing work of trying to find that, (my truth and needs), I just
stumbled over the English word close. To close the door, to close the space.
But if you put some more letters to the word it has the total opposite meaning –
closeness – to be close to another person, to be close to one an other. <span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It was when a person said to me “you
must look for closeness” and I keep on thinking on the meaning of “closing
something” instead of what she really mean (to be close to someone), that I
started to think about it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I don’t
know but in a way there must be a meaning with that. If I take same words for
close and closeness in Swedish there is nothing similar at all. </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>-----Ursprungligt
meddelande-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Från:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>För </span></b>Harrison
Owen<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Skickat:</span></b> den 24 april 2003 23:37<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Till:</span></b>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Ämne:</span></b> Re: Testing</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:65.2pt'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>At 06:44 PM 4/24/2003 +0200, Eva P Svensson wrote:<br style='mso-special-character:
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<![endif]></span></font><font color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;
mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:36.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:101.2pt'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>So quiet - just have to test that I'm still connected to you all!</span></font><font
color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><br>
<br>
The silence is in fact deafening. And particularly noticeable for this group. When
silences come I find the reasons are usually three: a) Nothing to say. b)
Nothing need be said. c) What could, or should, be said takes people to a place
they don't want to go. I vote for c)<br>
<br>
The events of the past month are, indeed, a little overwhelming. The US invades
Iraq, SARS breaks out. And now North Korea threatens to do a nuclear
demonstration -- whatever that might mean. Sufficient to take your breath away.
Forget about talking. And the prospects for the immediate future are hardly encouraging.
Speaking just for myself, I can say that at such times, space becomes
claustrophobically small. And my daily activities verge on the irrelevant. Silence.
Very quiet.<br>
<br>
It is quite possible that we are really in the midst of very, very, deep doo-doo,
from which there is no easy or obvious escape. Under the circumstances it is
always nice to have somebody to beat on and blame. George the Shrub comes
immediately to mind. But regardless of what he did do that he shouldn't have --
or didn't do and should have, the situation is probably well beyond him. From
where I sit, he remains what he has always been -- an embarrassment. As Birgitt
might be tempted to say -- We have a lot of Dead Moose. <br>
<br>
And yet in such moments, there is the possibility of enormous learning. For
ourselves, how do we open our personal space so that in this present moment we
can be fully here -- fully alive? And for our neighbors, colleagues, clients
and friends, how can we open that communal space so breath (and meaningful
conversation) becomes a possibility? Opening this sort of space is rather
different, I think, from filling the air with trite platitudes and the power of
positive thinking. It goes to a deeper place.<br>
<br>
Slightly less than a year ago, I was privileged to work with a group of
Palestinians and Israelis in Rome. Relatively speaking, the world at that point
(compared to the present moment) seemed almost idyllic -- but for those coming
from The Middle East it appeared something other than a rose garden. And in
their presence, I could only share something of the brittle fatalism reflected
in the forced smiles, and nervous laughter with which we began our gathering. Knowing
full well that I could never be fully where they were, I nevertheless felt
compelled to share my own vulnerability -- In my opening of the circle on that
first day I said something like...<i><span style='font-style:italic'>"I
had come because I cared for my friends in Palestine and Israel, and also for
myself and my children. And although the people in that circle may feel themselves
isolated and alone in their own private Hell with their own agonizing story,
that story was also the story of our world. Like it or not they were in the hot
crucible of the future of humankind. The future of all of us is being created
in that strange place known as the Holy Land, even as it has been for
millennia. So I cared, but I was also on the edge of despair or beyond. I could
not think of any way out. The issues were so deep and intractable that movement
appeared denied. Space was closed. But still I came, and still I cared – as I
presumed was true for each of them as well."<br>
<br>
</span></i>My learning during those days in Rome was profound. It became
startling clear that neither I, nor any single person there, had the wisdom,
courage, strength or perseverance to get us where we needed to go. But none of
us were called upon to do that -- we all were -- and all rose to the challenge.
In that rich space which contained all of our hopes, fears, frustrations
and anxieties, we collectively found a collegiality which included and
transcended them all. Needless to say, we did not bring peace to The
Middle East, but we surely experienced peace in that moment. And that was a
moment we will never forget.<br>
<br>
So maybe it is time to break our silence here on good old OSLIST -- share what
we are, and what we are learning. <br>
<br>
<br>
Harrison<br>
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size=3 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Harrison Owen<br>
7808 River Falls Drive<br>
Potomac, MD 20854 USA<br>
phone 301-365-2093<br>
Open Space Training </span><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com/"
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