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My dear community,</P>
<P>what a rich Sunday morning I had, reading all the postings on the topic deep
democracy and action taking place (which has been discussed on this list a while
ago but as there is only NOW I don't have to worry about being late
:))).<BR></P>
<P>I want to thank all of you for your sharing and pollinating! And I want to
share what flower has grown out of all this cross-fertilization on my
end:<BR></P>
<P><STRONG>Action is everything that happens - and not somebody doing
something specific I have in mind<BR></STRONG>I am also thinking back to the workshop
"Facilitating the Whole System" in the Room with Marvin Weisboard and Sandra
Janov and their turning around a popular phrase into "Don't just do something,
stand there" as a reminder for facilitators. So of course this
applies for participants, too!</P>
<P><STRONG>Invitation is all that ever works</STRONG> - whatever I do,
I can always ask myself, does this have enough heart and meaning for
me that I would also do it when nobody else is going to join me, right
now? (like offering a session in an OST event) When I am satisfied
with myself being the participant of my session nothing can ever go
wrong.</P>
<P><STRONG>Dream big, believe big, trust big (</STRONG>Peggy's "setting bold
intentions") I
myself have experienced starting to work on a goal
and all different obstacles came up: it will not work because... on and on and
on ... after quite a while another person reflected back to me, "Marei, I believe what you
really want is B not just A, could that be?" And connecting with that higher
intention of mine I was able to believe in me making it - and I went for it
- and I made it. Amazing.</P>
<P><STRONG>Open more space, and more
space, and more space -</STRONG> first of all in my heart, in my
mind, in my trust and faith, in my awareness - then it will
naturally happen all around me, in the methods I use, in who and how I
connect with - thinking back of something Harrison wrote a while ago, not "do"
an open space, but be an open space. <BR>"Give people a possibility to live
into, not an expectation to live up to." <BR>(<FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Benjamin
Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra)</SPAN><BR></FONT>
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<P>And of course, all of this is Open Space as a spiritual
practice.<BR> </P>
<P>From heaven on earth,<BR>Marei</P>
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