Frank...<br><br>You and others might be interested in knowing a bit more about some of the learning villages around the world that are connected through the Art of Hosting community.and the Berkana Institute These communities are very much living in Open Space, in the broader sense:
<br><br>Kufudna Village in Zimbabwe: <a href="http://www.kufunda.org/">http://www.kufunda.org/</a><br>The Shire, in Canada : <a href="http://www.oftheshire.org/the%20Shire/About%20the%20Shire.html">http://www.oftheshire.org/the%20Shire/About%20the%20Shire.html
</a><br><br>More here:<br><br><a href="http://berkana.tomoye.com/ev_en.php?ID=3033_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC">http://berkana.tomoye.com/ev_en.php?ID=3033_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC</a><br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 6/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frank Deitle</b> <<a href="mailto:commoikos@gmail.com">commoikos@gmail.com</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>Marei,<br><br>you said:<br><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div><div><span class="q"><font face="Arial" size="2">"PS: Where are you located, Frank? I couldn't anything
about you on the page."<br><br></font></span></div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><div><font face="Arial" size="2">At the moment I am in Bethel, Alaska visiting my dad and experiencing the wonderful open space of the tundra and the Kuskokwim river. I will be returning to Massachusetts next week where I may be working with a rural environmental education program center in the position of caretaker/lodge coordinater--a position with which I see much potential to integrate OST tools into day to day operations and community life. More on those ideas later...
<br></font><br>and:<br><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div><div><span class="q"><font face="Arial" size="2">"PPS: What does commoikos mean?"<br><br></font></span></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">"Commoikos" comes from the Latin "com" meaning "together" and the Greek "oikos" meaning "home" ("oikos" is where we get the prefix "eco" from as in ecology--the study of home). Thus commoikos means "home together" which is what I conceive universal enlightenment to be like... coming home together.
<br><br>Peace,<br></font></div><div><span class="sg"><font face="Arial" size="2">Frank<br><br></font></span></div><div></div><div><span class="e" id="q_10bc9b28115500cf_7"><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Marei Kiele</b> <<a href="mailto:MareiKiele@web.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">MareiKiele@web.de</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;">
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<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"></font> </p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Frank, thank you for your wonderful webpage. I have
bookmarked it and am looking forward to visiting every now and then and
finding more and more treasures. I havn't put my attention to living in a
community yet, as it seemed to far away from what I see around me, but reading
about your vision makes it be closer and more achievable to me also ~ so I will
include it in my wish-list, set an attention and attract this into my life
sooner or later.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Additionally, virtually I already experience being
part of such a community on this list ~ hey, I am back into reading emails after
having deleted the last 500+ because of feeling totally overwhelmed. And the
moment I deleted my whole "os-list to be read later" folder I felt wonderful.
And am now able to enjoy these conversations again.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">With joy and appreciation,<br>Marei</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">PS: Where are you located, Frank? I couldn't anything
about you on the page.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">PPS: What does commoikos mean?</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </p>
<p> "Frank Deitle" <<a href="mailto:commoikos@gmail.com%3E" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mailto:commoikos@gmail.com></a> schrieb:</p></div><div><span>
<br>> Mark and OS friends,<br>> <br>> I was going thru the some unread OSLIST emails today and discovered<br>> this gem in Mark's wonderful post about "living an open space life."<br>> <br>> "Anne Stadler suggested that the next experiment should be an
<br>> intentional community based on "Living in Open Space". So she founded<br>> the "Spirited Work Community" in 1999. With that, our focus (Anne and<br>> I) changed from predominantly organization-oriented OS to
<br>> community-oriented OS."<br>> <br>> I'd like to hear more about the Spirited Work Community and open space<br>> intentional communities in general. Ever since I discovered OST (or<br>> did it discover me?) this year from the wonderful Lisa Heft, I have
<br>> fantasized about what a large-scale residential intentional<br>> community/ecovillage/sustainable human settlement would be like if it<br>> was visioned, organized, planned, executed, maintained, and governed
<br>> in Open Space. What kind of crazy, wonderful creature would that<br>> become? What kind culture would emerge out of that? Are other people<br>> out there thinking about this sort of thing? How do you see it
<br>> unfolding/coming about?<br>> <br>> I recently started to build a website to explore my own<br>> conceptualizations of such an endeavor. It is very much in its early<br>> stages of development. It very well may be entirely naive. All I know
<br>> is that I can't stop thinking about it. The website is:<br>> <a href="http://commoikos.googlepages.com." target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://commoikos.googlepages.com.
</a><br>> <br>> Peace,<br>> Frank Deitle<br></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br></span></div><div><span class="e" id="q_10bc9b28115500cf_8">
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