<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">Dear OS Folks,<BR>
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Well, having read the thread to now, an idea popped into my white male brain---</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">maybe we need to drop the word "facilitation" and "facilitator", since it usually implies a facilitator-centric mindset and model, and go with "open space holder" or something else like that. If one is the "holder of space", one is definitely in the background, invisible to what is going on. Maybe "Space Opener" is another useable nom d'plume? (bad French) "Open Space Holder" might be invisible enough?<BR>
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As for Therese's challenge, when I had stopped vibrating from all the loaded words, I thought it might be useful for the female psyche to deeply consider what it might be like to know that you would NEVER be able to give birth to a new life. That the masculine participation in that event is now not even needed and was only very brief in earlier times. Just rest there for a while before you continue. <BR>
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There are extremely deep fears of uselessness buried in the male psyche, which are kept at bay by a focus on external achievement. The entire rest of the cosmos is deeply fecund feminine. The masculine knows this and desperately tries not to be subsumed into nothingness. Ponder that for a brief moment. No, think rather deeply about it. Read a little Bly. Be careful, you may get what you wish for and discover you don't like it, not at all.<BR>
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Sincerely,<BR>
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Paul Everett <BR>
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