Dearest Chris, and all,<br><br>My first response to your brilliant and beautiful vision was similar to Avner's -- although my own impulse was to plan to actually show up on Bowen (I really like the part where you say "it will be cheap and accessible"!) until I too realized that the week of the Harvest Moon is during the Jewish holidays (which begin with the new moon immediately preceding). A spiritually potent time to gather, and certainly a gorgeous time for harvesting on many levels, but not a good time for some of us to travel or even to be online.
<br><br>(although by the way, one way to think of those ephemeral, temporary "huts" of Sukkot, meant to be open to the stars and the elements, is to consider these ephemeral, temporary, opened-space bodies we live in as those huts -- which I guess are not so difficult after all to put on the plane or on the ferry boat!)
<br><br>I love your idea of setting a time based on the moon, and am writing just to mention that it might be that the Harvest Moon will always correspond to Sukkot -- I don't know exactly how it works except that Sukkot is always the full moon around that time, with the New Year / Rosh HaShanah being at the new moon two weeks before. And, this year, like last year, Ramadan also begins at that same new moon and ends with the following new moon. Indeed a potent time!
<br><br>With very deep appreciation for your inspired imagination,<br>and already excited to see what might happen in September,<br>love, Christy<br><br>-- <br><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Christy Lee-Engel, ND, LAc
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<br><br><br></span><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">avner</b> <<a href="mailto:avnerh@zahav.net.il" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">avnerh@zahav.net.il
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The 22nd is Yom Kipur, our most holy day, the
day of deep reflection on all that we have done through the year. So about the
flow, in between these 2 events it might be even better, even though
Israelis tend to take this time for a holliday.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Yesterday we summarized our 1st Israeli osonos,
which was a very gracefull one. the open space community here
will explore this beautifull offer of Michael Herman and
you </font></div><span>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Avner</font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div>
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<b>From:</b>
<a title="chris@chriscorrigan.com" href="mailto:chris@chriscorrigan.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Chris
Corrigan</a> </div>
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OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a>
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<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none;"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 23, 2007 7:40
AM</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;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: SV: Michael Pannwitz's
comment about OSonOS 2008 in Berlin</div>
<div><br></div>Ah yes...but still...that week might work no? Earlier
perhaps wrapping up in time for sukkot? If we made the "OSonOS week"
from September 20-26 ending the night of the full moon, then it might
accomodate those that need to wrap up before celebraing the equinox.
<br><br>At any rate, the celebration of sukkot is about living out in the
ephemeral open spaces, the booths. So it seems like there is some flow
there too...<br><br>Chris<br><br><br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">avner</b>
<<a href="mailto:avnerh@zahav.net.il" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">avnerh@zahav.net.il</a>>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">What an inspiring idea Chris, and to see it
first thing in the morning here in East feels my heart with gratitude
and connectedness.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I wanted to cry yes but looking at the
calender I noticed that the night of the 26th is the Jewish Holliday
(we have quit a few) of Sukot, to commemorate our Exodous from Egypt
buy sitting for a week in decorated `as if` huts,with its temporary
symbolism. </font><font face="Arial" size="2">So the date fits spiritually but
not practically for many Jews </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Nevertheless if you all adopt this date, I
guess we will find ways to open the space with you, in `inner`
ways and it might be beautifull as well</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">All the best from a coolish and sunshine
Jerusalem</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Avner</font></div>
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<b>From:</b>
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<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none;"><b>Sent:</b>
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:20 AM</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;"><b>Subject:</b>
Re: SV: Michael Pannwitz's comment about OSonOS 2008 in Berlin</div>
<div><br></div>Friends:<br><br>If I have understood Harrison correctly
over all the years he has been talking about Open Space, he has always had
an aspiration that the process become so ubiquitous that it disappear into
a fabric of "business as usual" while at the same time changing business
as usual, much as brainstorming has since its discovery in the 1950s as a
simple but powerful technique for unlocking creativity in groups.
<br><br>It has seemed to me that over the past ten years the movement of
Open Space has been dispersing far and wide. It used to be that
there were only a handful of trainings for example and I knew all of the
trainers. Now Open Space training is offered everywhere by
people who none of us in the "core community" of practitioners have ever
heard of. OST is being used in all kinds of settings and what we are
learning about leadership, organization and management is being deeply
internalized into practice and life. <br><br>It seems that the
movement of who we are and what we know has been scattered to the winds
and that is a beautiful thing. It is something that could never have
happened if Harrison had retained control over the process, or if
everything was centralized into one set of licenses for training and
use. OST is used every day in hundreds of different contexts and its
spirit permeates many organizations, communities and personal practices.
<br><br>And so. the evolution of this conversation seems timely. As
much as I also have enjoyed the OSonOS events (and I co-hosted one of
them) I can see the wisdom and delight in what Michael Herman has
proposed. A worldwide Open Space week, self-organized, possibly
interconnected or possibly not in which many gatherings on many scales
could take place is a brilliant and accurate reflection of our community
of practice. Better than having 200 people gathering one place,
having 200 gatherings of 50 people in many places would be a monumental
testament to the ubiquitous nature of this incredibly fluid process.
As far as I know, none of the organizational change practitioner's
communities has anything like this. <br><br>To me it is the difference
between watching the moon eclipse the sun, and watching a full moon
rise. Both incredibly beautiful events, but different. But the
solar eclipse is only visible to a very tiny slice of the world, and when
one occurs, those of us who are outside of that range can only follow
along on the web or TV and envy those who got to be there. <br><br>But
sharing the experience of watching a full moon rise is totally
different. Lovers separated by many miles often do this,
feeling connected in the moment with their partner, sharing a common
experience of beauty. We appreciate the event together and we
appreciate the fact that we are doing it together, no matter where we
are. <br><br>And so, what if we chose the week of the harvest moon
for our week of gatherings? In the northern hemisphere, the harvest
moon is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox, usually occurring
in late September or early October. The harvest moon marks the time
of year when the harvest of the year's bounty begins. The days and
night are roughly equal in length and the tides are reasonably equal as
well. It is a time of equanimity and rededication to the communal
effort of harvesting what we have sown. <br><br><a href="http://www.farmersalmanac.com/astronomy/fullmoons.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">This year the harvest moon is September 26th
</a>. What
if all over the world, during the week of September 24, we gathered in
large to small groups for a day or two or more and held open space on open
spaces, to harvest what we have sown, learn from one another and
contribute to a worldwide learning inquiry about the edge of our practice,
and the incredible evolving story of Open Space? <br><br>If others feel
like this is a good idea, I will start the ball rolling by committing to
having one here on Bowen Island, near Vancouver, Canada that week, let us
say September 25-26-27. It will be in a rustic setting, and it will
be cheap and accessible. Anyone who wants to gather with me from
near and far is invited. We will enjoy each other in two days of
Open Space and on the evening of September 26, we will go down to the
beach looking east across the mouth of Howe Sound to the North American
mainland and watch the harvest moon rise, knowing that as we are doing so,
many of our friends and colleagues will have seen that same moon emerge
over their gatherings in Siberia, Zimbabwe, Belgium, the United States,
Colombia and Haiti? And then we will post our proceedings on our
worldwide web site and relish in the conversations shared with others
across our world. <br><br>What say you,
friends?<br><br>Chris<br><br><br><br><br><br></span></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></span></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br><br>
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