<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#090991"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Dear Karolina,</span></font></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#090991"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#090991"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Thank you for your courage. Your visualization of a shoulder-shoulder circle with each person feeling the collective power that backs them up as they move into the world, brought the energy inside the WOSonOS circle alive for me.</span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#090991"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#090991"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">I really resonate with your wish to have "t</span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#090991"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">aken the chance for using the collective we were for making a big something, a big action, sending a lot of invitations to the world to enjoy and spread and have fun and love and development and support the self-organisation..." There is so much need. </span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#090991" face="Calibri" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#090991"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Thank you for sharing.</span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#090991" face="Calibri" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#090991"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Warm wishes from a cloudy day in Phoenix, </span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#090991" face="'Trebuchet MS'"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 145); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; "><span 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meeting.</div><div>and i find it a pity i just realised it in the closing round and could only verbalise it on the way back, but i take my chance and still would like to share it with you here over the list.</div> <div><br></div><div>i had this impression we all as a group / community during this meeting</div><div>were mostly busy with topics related to the method </div> <div>and to us in various roles and relationships with others while using the method </div><div>and to our personal and organisational growth and development.</div><div><br></div><div>i had this visualisation of us standing in a circle, shoulder to shoulder, facing inside,</div> <div>feeling the power, the confusion, the energy, the movement. focused on the centre and its content.</div><div>maybe feeling / sensing the world outside, but neither relating to it a lot nor taking common actions in its direction.</div> <div>there were so many people, so much energy and emotions</div> <div>and i guess i just miss us turning our backs to the centre of the circle,</div><div>turning our faces and fronts to the world outside,</div><div>feeling the energy behind our backs </div><div>and with it feeling empowered to take common action and send a message to the world,</div> <div>use the resources we have and see how we can use what we are blessed to be experiencing and having.</div><div><br></div><div>if the collecting of issues or action planning was to happen again</div><div>i wish i had posted for example an idea for each of us</div> <div>to offer an open space to the community we belong / relate to or are connected with for free.</div><div>that we would create and share a gift.</div><div>share the energy, the spirit so often referred to with the ones who need it but cannot afford it or don't know where to ask.</div> <div><br></div><div>and i know many of us do it anyway, i am totally aware of that.</div> <div>i just wish we had taken the chance for using the collective we were</div><div>for making a big something, a big action, sending a lot of invitations to the world </div><div>to enjoy and spread and have fun and love and development and support the self-organisation...</div> <div><br></div><div>i am thinking as well of yaaris question in the closing round </div><div>if os is white and rich.</div><div>i wonder what to do to break the impression i share. what can i do?</div><div>i wonder how to invite people who cannot afford coming to wosonos because they are missing resources.</div> <div>as i work with european funds i came up with the idea of applying for a grant which would co-fund the participation of people who would come to the wosonos, but for whom the participation fee and all related costs are an barrier in participating.</div> <div>this is just a small idea,</div><div>but i would like to give with it a shot and try to support a tendency </div><div>and make os more inclusive and make us a more diverse and welcoming group.</div><div>as i know more about european funds i could take care of coordinating such a project </div> <div>and try to get additional funds for the 2012 wosonos in london.</div><div><br></div><div>i am quite anxious of people misunderstanding my point,</div><div>and it takes quite some courage of me to write this email,</div> <div>but i still want to share it.</div><div><br></div><div>with everybody who was and was not there and with everybody here. </div><div><br></div><div>karolina.<br> </div></div> * * ========================================================== OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu: <a href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</a> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</a></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>*
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