<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]>
<style>
v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<title>Re: OSLIST Digest - 4 Sep 2006 (#2006-233)</title>
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Wingdings;
panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
panose-1:3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Times;
panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p.MsoPlainText, li.MsoPlainText, div.MsoPlainText
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";}
p.MsoAutoSig, li.MsoAutoSig, div.MsoAutoSig
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
span.E-MailFormatvorlage17
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:Arial;
color:navy;}
@page Section1
{size:595.3pt 841.9pt;
margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 2.0cm 70.85pt;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple>
<div class=Section1>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dear Ralph, I love your story about participants
passing on the essentials to late-comers in 10 seconds. It has a very relaxing
effect on me… </span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Wingdings><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:navy'>J</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’m about to open space for Swiss People
living with AIDS (Oct. 20 – 22), and very much looking forward to this
week-end. A great preparation group profits of our experience in April (OS entitled
„Healthily and happily gay“). We will be at the same gorgeous place
above Lake Neuchâtel, hosted by a very dedicated crew in the YMCA-Center of
Vaumarcus. The sponsor is again the Swiss Federal Office for Public Health,
section AIDS. More on <a href="http://www.hivpositive.ch/">www.hivpositive.ch</a>
(in German and French).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Have any of you worked with People living
with AIDS and can give me advice on things that might be of importance and that
we might not think of automatically?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Love, Catherine<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<div>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>Catherine
Pfaehler Senn<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>Open Space
Begleitung & Coaching<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>Kellersriedweg
8<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>CH - 2503 Biel<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>+41-(0)32 - 365
68 41<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>c.pfaehler@bluewin.ch<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>www.open-space-konferenz.ch<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<div>
<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1>
</span></font></div>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Von:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Ralph Copleman
[mailto:rcopleman@comcast.net] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Gesendet:</span></b> Dienstag, 5. September
2006 15:30<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Betreff:</span></b> Re: OSLIST Digest - 4 Sep
2006 (#2006-233)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=4 face=Times><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Times'>On 9/5/06 2:00 AM, "OSLIST
automatic digest system" <LISTSERV@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU> wrote:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face=Times><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Times'>My real fear is that all the students won't get it. I
desperately want to<br>
let go and let it happen, and I'm worried about what will happen when I do. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face=Times><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Times'><br>
Joanna, other newbies, virgins, and anyone else...<br>
<br>
How easy is it for students (or anyone else) to “get” open space?<br>
<br>
On occasions, when someone has arrived late for an OS meeting I’m
facilitating, I’ve often seen the following. The person in question
wants to get into the stream of things, so s/he usually seeks out someone s/he
knows. Then follows an extremely brief exchange that usually includes a
little pointing toward the relevant wall, a nod or two, and the two move off in
different directions, with the latecomer heading toward that wall.<br>
<br>
I have taken all that time to provide as efficient and brief an opening as I
know how, and then I see the whole thing delivered in about ten seconds to a
complete newcomer.<br>
<br>
People get it, I think in part, because to participate in open space, there’s
fundamentally nothing new they have to learn. They join some
conversations, listen, speak from time to time, move around, eat something,
etc. If we insist people “get it” on some deeper level that’s
unnecessary for them to give what they came to contribute or learn what they
came to learn, then we may be stressing ourselves uselessly.<br>
<br>
If less is more for us, it needs to be so, in our minds, for participants as
well.<br>
<br>
So not only will they get it, Joanna, they already do!<br>
<br>
Ralph Copleman</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
*
*
==========================================================
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
-----------------------------
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu:
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
*
*
==========================================================
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
------------------------------
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu:
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist