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Hello everyone! <br>
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Well this is syncronicity. Whilst attempting to overcome a bad cold
and take a desperately needed break from my 2 children (1 is 20 months
and the other just over 3 years old) I was lying (hiding) in bed reading
Harrison's book on peace and wondering how it is I could possibly adopt
an Open Space mentality in the care of my kids! Preface this with
the fact that I am operating in my own facilitation business (mostly Open
Space), aiming to work an average </i>of 2 days a month and spending the
rest of the time being mum.<br>
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I am currently in the process of preparing myself to conduct another 2
Open Space gatherings later in the month. In this role I have found
my experience of Open Space and of myself to be calm, bold, completely
unflappable and grounded........ but then I come home to my mum role and
it seems the opposite is true! I am very challenged here!
Thank goodness the people sitting in the circle, can't see what was going
on before I left home! (Something like changing roles from cruel
autocrat to Buddhist monk - I'm sure it's not quite this bad all the time
but it is winter and I am feeling a little run down!). Somehow I
seem to be running out of space at home. In the grand plan to have
a regular break from kiddlies, my 2 attend a creche in Hobart every
Thursday. I knew that they used a Reggio Emilia approach there but
didn't have a clue what it meant - only that I like (and the kids like)
they're experience there. So, I am excited and relieved to discover
it has links with Open Space and would like to:<br>
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a) find out more about it - can anyone refer me to anything here (if and
when I get time to read it) and <br>
b) post this question from a mum who feels like her experience of Open
Space is far from home - How do we do it? (ie: with toddlers, 24hrs a
day, at home?)<br>
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Love from Hobart town.<br>
<br>
Kim.<br>
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