<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>Wonderful conversation....<div><div><br></div><div>Just this morning, I read a Blessing for a New Beginning from John O'Donohue's To Bless the Space Between Us</div><div><br></div><div>Awaken your spirit to adventure;</div><div>Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;</div><div>Soon you will be home in a new rhythm</div><div>For your soul senses the world that awaits you</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sounds like a lovely way to 'poke the spirit' of Open Space - for anyone/everyone </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div></div>Brendan</div><div> </div>On 19/05/2011, at 11:20 AM, Spark.osk wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<font face="맑은 고딕">A courage to liberate the hero imprisoned in the
leading sponsor of OS event can virally affect the etire human
systems that have yearned to get out of their box imprisoning
their spirit. All we have to do seems to let it happen by inviting
them </font><font face="맑은 고딕">to open it and enjoy whatever
happens. Ah... I seem to know hope will remain at least. <br>
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Hope ubiquitously charged by OST ;-))<br>
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spark<br>
Liberate the leader in each of us. </font><br>
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2011-05-19 오전 11:16, doug 쓴 글:
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<pre wrap="">Suzanne--
Your mention of the hero's journey set my heart on something I wrote a
couple of days ago, triggered by Rumi:
empty-making & whole-making
these are all we sell here
muddle & community
hero/ine going out coming back &
finding the boon for the community in
the community
most folks don't have either
zig & zag each and both help the
line remember it is one
:- Doug.
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 09:13 -0400, Suzanne Daigle wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Harold,
Your post has been on my mind a lot...Your question: "What's the path
to abundant full time Open Space living?" and then your comment "I've
been wishing I could do this full time - go out - get clients - and
facilitate OST conferences full time - but Seth's quote kind of threw
that back at me".
All I can say Harold is to follow your passion. In many ways it is a
hero's journey, a journey that does not have the security, the
predictability, the stability and all that a traditional "abundant
full time job or career might have". For me, Open Space is the
pathway that opens up space to transform how we do work, how we
experience life, how we are together, together. There is nothing that
compares. I know I could be accused at times of being a "one trick
pony" but how can I dismiss the depth, the possibilities, the layers,
the hope, the transformation, innovation, creativity, peace,
performance and all that Opening Space invites in our lives. It is a
way of being much more than a process of doing.
As I reflect on my corporate career, I can feel and taste the
possibilities of what Open Space invites. It invites EVERYONE to
participate and engage, to contribute and make a difference. To be
themselves without holding back. Wow! And as I think of you Harold,
your depth, your commitment and contributions to this community, I
think to myself, lucky client who would have you to Open Space. What a
gift knowing the results and outcomes in productivity, high
performance and high engagement that could occur.
As a community, I feel us to be on the edge...on the edge of so many
possibilities. The World today is a very different place: in business,
in politics, in education, in finance, environmentally, etc. Or
perhaps it's not that different at all, it's just our perception that
has changed and perception is everything. It's a lot.
The opportunities to be opening space abound. Some days I feel like a
shoe salesman seeing
so many people around me with no shoes, not even knowing what shoes
are and I think of the "repetitive patterns" of how they work and live
that aren't working anymore. I then think to myself "if only they had
shoes aka Open Space" and therein lies the entrepreneur magic inside
of me. In those times, I feel myself to be a business owner, a
scientist and an inventor -- imagining the path of how I can help
people discover how life could be better if only we could open space
and introduce a few principles of living.
At this stage, rather than writing a book, I feel myself wanting to
write a marketing campaign not to sell somebody on something but to
speak in a language where people are, a language of need and
possibilities that is familiar. A language that invites a relationship
with clients, a language that does not talk about Open Space but that
is all about Opening Space in different ways so we can get different
results.
So Harold, I thank you for posting this. It made me realize again
that time is "awasting" and that I have important work to do if I am
to go for the whole enchilada, as Harrison told me in a recent post.
It means being smart and strategic, thinking like an entrepreneur,
knowing what I'm good at and going for it.
I'm imagining there are lots of Wave Riders out there like you, like
me who are not shy about announcing that making a sustainable living
doing what we love to do is indeed a noble and worthy goal. And
"abundance" seems like a darn good word because it is through
abundance, sharing, helping each other, contributing back to this
community that abundance happens and multiples.
So Harold, keep simmering your dream and let me know if I can help in
this trail blazing, wave riding adventure that we call Open Space
which is really nothing more than opening space in our lives so that
"people can be helping people" in business, community and in life.
Suzanne, invigorated and energized about the future
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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Harold Shinsato <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com"><harold@shinsato.com></a>
wrote:
I just read this in Seth Godin's latest tract - "Poke the
Box". I've heard occasionally that some folks are having
trouble making ends meet as Open Space Technology
facilitators. Yet others seem to be doing ok. I've been
wishing I could do this full time - go out - get clients - and
facilitatre OST conferences full time - but Seth's quote kind
of threw that back at me.
"My friend Jessica wants to be a conference organizer. You can
hire her and she'll sweat every single detail of your event.
Give her the attendee list, the venue, and the agenda, and the
conference will go off without a hitch.
"The problem with this plan is that it involves being picked
by the event promoter. If she gets picked often, it's a fine
living. If she can negotiate a fair payday, it's a fine
living. But Jessica must pitch the promoter, hat in hand.
"So... why not be the promoter, the initiator, the one in
charge and responsible?"
- Seth Godin, Poke the Box, p. 25
This sounds a lot more like the spirit of OST than going out
looking for clients who want to do OST events. This is very
personal for me as Missoula BarCamp's OST event happens on
Saturday. I went out and just got it started - but it's not
exactly a money maker at this point. But what Seth says, just
initiating cool OST events, sounds a lot more juicy than
trying to pitch OST facilitation.
Any enlightenment anyone? What's the path to abundant full
time Open Space living?
--
Harold Shinsato
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