<div>Sorry - I had meant to send this as a personal response to Raffi and not to the list. </div> <div> </div> <div>Trying to catch up too fast on emails and not paying enough attention.</div> <div> </div> <div>So hi to everyone while I'm here.</div> <div>Diane<BR><BR><B><I>Diane Gibeault <diane.gibeault@rogers.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <DIV>Thanks Raffi for the extension,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I was able to jot down a few ideas yesterday on the train from France to Swityerland ...doing 3 OS trainnings.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Diane<BR><BR><B><I>Raffi Aftandelian <raffi@BK.RU></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Dear friends and colleagues,<BR><BR>Two months ago I posted an invitation to the OSlist regarding an e-book<BR>project, Living
Peace: the open space of our lives, an opportunity for all<BR>of us who work with OST to share how we live in Open Space. <BR><BR>I am posting the invitation to participate in this initiative below as a<BR>reminder. <BR><BR>OST facilitators from Russia, Turkey, Israel, Germany, Switzerland, US, and<BR>Canada, to name a few countries, have said they will contribute. And some<BR>pieces have already come in. And I am absolutely delighted that OS'ers both<BR>new to the practice and those who were around from the very beginning (the<BR>Big Bang of 1985?) have contributed or intend to contribute.<BR><BR>I am extending the deadline to March 1st.<BR><BR>To give a feeling for the style in which this book will be illustrated, you<BR>might want to visit<BR><BR>http://picasaweb.google.ru/dyomka/AtYkNH?authkey=h0K3uQIse9U<BR><BR>Vera "Dyomka" Vakulenko, a Moscow friend of Open Space will be doing the<BR>illustrating.<BR><BR>enjoying the recent threads,<BR>warmly,<BR>raffi<BR><BR>"I
don't mind dying. It's just that I don't want to be around when it happens."<BR>--Woody Allen<BR><BR>"I don't mind living. It's just that I don't want to be around when it happens."<BR>--overheard from a butterfly conversation between Op N. Heart and Woolly Adden<BR><BR>******************************************************<BR>Living Peace: the open space of our lives<BR>An invitation<BR><BR><BR>November 18,2007<BR><BR><BR><BR>We are writing you to invite your contribution for an e-book, tentatively<BR>entitled Living Peace: the open space of our lives. OST facilitators from<BR>around the world, experienced and people new to the practice, are being<BR>contacted for this project.<BR><BR>Harrison’s last book was The Practice of Peace. It was a thoughtful,<BR>playful, compelling, and engaging invitation to consider that the everyday<BR>practice of Open Space in organizations is the practice of peace. If that is<BR>so, then perhaps, taken together, those who work with OST
have something to<BR>offer the world about living peace on a day-to-day basis? <BR><BR><BR><BR>There have been many conversations about the personal practice of open<BR>space, but to our knowledge this has not been captured as a book. Chris<BR>Corrigan and Michael Herman have elaborated an invaluable perspective on<BR>that practice. And I credit them, Wendy Farmer-O’Neil, Birgitt Williams, and<BR>Harrison Owen as inspiration for this book.<BR><BR>This book aims to deepen the conversation about the personal practice of<BR>Open Space.<BR><BR>For the book, we’d like to invite you to answer one question: <BR><BR>“What is your practice of Open Space?” <BR><BR>This is an inquiry into how each of us bring open space into our lives, how<BR>we live Open Space.<BR><BR>In addition, you are invited to submit resources for a resource section at<BR>end of the book on practicing Open Space in life. We welcome any materials<BR>you see as valuable in deepening the personal practice
of Open Space.<BR><BR>A maximum length of two pages for each contribution is suggested, and this<BR>is more of a guideline than a hard and fast rule.<BR><BR>We’d like to ensure a broad representation of voices in the book, both in<BR>terms of perspective, experience, and geography. This invitation will also<BR>be posted to English-language OSlist and other OSlists around the world. <BR><BR>If you have any particular suggestions of people who should be contacted to<BR>participate in this initiative, let me know!<BR><BR>If you think you will be able to make a contribution, please email Raffi at<BR>raffi@bk.ru (or raffi_1970@yahoo.com). We’d like to receive submissions by<BR>February 1, 2008.<BR><BR>Your piece can be anything that can be presented on a printed page, a story,<BR>an essay, a parable, a word, a sentence, a picture, a diagram, anything that<BR>can convey on paper what you understand your practice of Open Space to be.<BR><BR>If you’d prefer to share your
practice of peace in a telephone conversation<BR>that can be later transcribed into text, we’d be more than happy to do so.<BR><BR>The book will be made available for free online. Perhaps at a later point,<BR>it might be available for sale in print form, in which case a significant<BR>(50% at least) of proceedings will go to support the spread of OST around<BR>the world.<BR><BR>Vera “Dyomka” Vakulenko, a Moscow artist and community activist who designed<BR>the Open Space on Open Space XIV logo and brought much spirit to that<BR>conference will be illustrating this book. <BR><BR>We intend to publish the book in both English and Russian. If you can<BR>circulate this invitation in other languages, it’d much be appreciated.<BR><BR>Your thoughts, questions suggestions and collaboration in this project are<BR>welcome!<BR><BR>If you can submit something for this book, please let us know by email!<BR><BR>Respectfully and in appreciation,<BR>Raffi Aftandelian<BR>Vera
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