<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Raffi and All,<div><br><div>Sorry for earlier hitting the wrong button and sending a blank reply!</div><div><br></div><div>What I intended to say was that a friend told me she attended a week-long Non Violent Communication training that was fully conducted in Open Space.</div><div>It was held near Melbourne, in Oz, and she found it to be most inspiring both as far as NVC was concerned and as an introduction, for her, to OST.</div><div><br></div><div>She is now right behind my hope of bringing Open Space to the organisation of Ortho-Bionomy, the gentle bodywork we both practise.</div><div>I think both Open Space and Ortho-Bionomy have great similarities.</div><div><br></div><div>On your last point, Raffi...</div><div>I say thank heaven for those who are "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; ">not-quite-peaceful and a wee bit dogmatic in the open space community" and every other community.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Cheerio from a really sunny and warm day in Healesville, SE Australia,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Allison.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 05/11/2011, at 1:48 PM, Allison & Jim Baensch wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 05/11/2011, at 12:50 PM, Raffi Aftandelian wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div><span>Yaari-jan, thanks for this.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Indeed, some of the greatest resistance I ever experienced in proposing OST was with my local NVC community. There was so much concern about using OST you'd think the sky would fall if space was opened to practice NVC.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>And after a long while, after experiencing several one day NVC practice events held in OST some of the most skeptical folks came around and saw the practice of OST has its merits.<br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Now, mind you, they had their criticisms still-- they worried that the good practice of NVC was somehow threatened. After all, <span style="font-style: italic;">any</span>one could post a session, even someone with no experience of
NVC.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>On the matter of being NVC'ers not being peaceful and instead being dogmatic, etc.--- to be fair don't we have our share of not-quite-peaceful and a wee bit dogmatic in the open space community? <br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>I, for one, am guilty as charged!</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>much warmth from a seattle-like san diego,</span></div><div><span>raffi<br></span></div><div> </div><div>powered by ubuntu 10.4</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>