Greetings Claudia, Harrison, Winston, and others,<br>
<br>
What fun watching as the kairophiles come out of the woodwork sharing
various stories and connections, offering little bits of ourselves. And
it's always amusing when hidden truths come shaking out of language
tickling!<br>
<br>
Thanks ya'll,<br>
ashley<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/13/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Winston Kinch</b> <<a href="mailto:kinch@kos.net">kinch@kos.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Hi Ashley and the other no longer covert
kairophiles out there (including Himself!).</font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">The license plate on my '93 Chevy van reads
"KAIROS 1" (KAIROS was taken already).</font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">In my own exploration of the word (my company was
named Kairos Consulting and Facilitation before I closed it down two
years ago)</font> <font face="Tahoma" size="2">I found it was also used by
lawyers (the kairos moment for intervention) and more recently by Marion Woodman
in a more spiritual context (she called it, I believe, "God's
time").</font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">I love the word, and I usually just say when
introducing it to folks that whereas the word chronos stood for linear time,
kairos stands for "timing".</font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Good to meet kindred spirits.</font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Winston</font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2"> </font> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none;"><span class="q">----- Original Message -----
<div style="background: rgb(228, 228, 228) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"><b>From:</b> <a title="mail.easilyamazed@gmail.com" href="mailto:mail.easilyamazed@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
ashley cooper</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 12, 2005 12:06 PM</div></span>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Kairos and OST</div></div><div><span class="e" id="q_10789614b9587fd5_3">
<div><br></div>Hello,<br><br>I often think of OST as a means of creating
conditions that assist individuals in greater listening to self and to others...
expanding awareness and deepening connection. A friend recently wrote to
me, teaching me about the word <span style="font-style: italic;">Kairos</span>:<br><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>"Kairos is an ancient Greek word meaning the "right or opportune
moment". It is now used in theology to describe the qualitative form of
time. In rhetoric kairos is "a passing instant when an opening appears which
must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved." (E. C.
White, Kaironomia p. 13)" </div></blockquote></span></div></blockquote>
<div><br>Living my life in Open Space has really intensified my awareness and
recognition of kairos. The principles and law are my little friends, whispering
sweet encouragement into my ears, reminding me that what is of essence arises at
the right time, it is only myself that must rest into patience and acceptance.
OST has helped me recognize the "right or opportune moment" when it is present,
whenever it starts is the right time, when it's over, it's over. Listening for
the wisdom emerging in the group, listening for what<span style="font-style: italic;"> needs</span> to be spoken has helped tune me into
that passing instant when an opening appears, and the law of two feet, taking
responsibility for what I love, drives me in with guided
forcefulness<br></div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><span>
<div>"In <em>The Interpretation of History</em>, Lutheran theologian <a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Paul+Tillich" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="#1d4994">
Paul Tillich </font></a><span>(August 20,
1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian
existentialist philosopher</span> made prominent use of the term. For
him, the <em>kairoi</em> are those crises in history which create an
opportunity for, and indeed demand, an existential decision by the human
subject." </div></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><br>It is my sense that
this is what so many of us Open Space facilitators are sniffing out. Our
attention is awake and attuned to the aromas of crises in history which create
an opportunity for, and indeed demand, an existential decision by the human
subject. From my perception so many of you not only acknowledge and honor these
moments but at the same time, open and hold the space for as many individuals as
possible to rise to this occasion. You open space, creating a container within
which people are ready and listening, and at the right and opportune moment they
gracefully embody and move forth with their existential decision.<br><br>I give
thanks for each of you and for the living entity of Open Space, sharing its
gifts with the world.<br><br>Ashley
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