<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><div>I'm not sure how pure the Open Space was for the NVC training I spoke of, but it sounded pretty satisfying and open to me, as far as I heard.</div><div><br></div><div>My thanking of heaven for the "not-quite-peaceful' etc was because I can find unadulterated positivity and perfect peace a little irksome.</div><div>I am pleased enough to think it is a genetic aberration in me, though I know of others with a similar tendency.</div><div>And I don't regret this in any of us.</div><div><br></div><div>For one thing, I rarely know whether something is positive, peaceful etc until well after it has happened.</div><div>An example:</div><div>At the start of May, I discovered I have big-time cancer.</div><div>All the medical stuff I thought I'd hate (like tests, chemo and radiotherapy and surgery) were just fine and left me feeling quite bonny.</div><div>My relationship with my husband Jim (which was fine before my diagnosis) is now flourishing.</div><div>Yet a simple removal of a drain tube, that I was quite looking forward to, so I could leave hospital, traumatised and literally nearly killed me.</div><div><br></div><div>How is it possible to tell what is "good" and what is "bad"? </div><div>Besides, I don't want to limit my life to thinking the "right" type of thoughts - that might make me too guarded.</div><div>That demonstrates one of my dogmatic moments.</div><div>I do like to be respectful of myself and other folks, critters and so on.</div><div>And sometimes I catch myself being careless and try to notice and attend to that. </div><div><br></div><div>This explains sort of what I meant by my thanking of heaven for feelings and actions that sometimes rumple the space we are in.</div><div>It was a relief to see you say that you can be a "wee bit dogmatic" because I have admired your writing and wise thoughts on the list.</div><div>I am pleased you too are capable of a bit of space rumpling in one way or another.</div><div><br></div><div>And hope that answers your question a bit.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheerio from a late (for me) warm evening in the Yarra Valley in SE Oz.</div><div>Allison.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 06/11/2011, at 1:33 AM, Raffi Aftandelian wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>allison-jan and all greetings--</span></div><div><span>thanks for your reply.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>speaking as a purist (being a wee bit dogmatic?)- if that weeklong NVC training was anything like the International Intensives I've heard about, i think things are tweaked a bit so it isn't fully open space. Sure, it's close to the real thing...<span style="font-style: italic;">but</span>... : )<br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div>and allison-jan, please say more about <br></div><pre>>>I say thank heaven for those who are "not-quite-peaceful and a wee bit dogmatic in the open space community" and every other community.<br></pre>
<div><br></div><div>greetings from a cold, seattle-esque san diego (time to rename the city San Seattle??),</div><div>raffi<br><span></span></div><pre>__________________________<br>Hi Raffi and All,<br><br>Sorry for earlier hitting the wrong button and sending a blank reply!<br><br>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.<br>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.<br><br>She is now right behind my hope of bringing Open Space to the organisation of Ortho-Bionomy, the gentle bodywork we both practise.<br>I think both Open Space and Ortho-Bionomy have great similarities.<br><br>On your last point, Raffi...<br>I say thank heaven for those who are "not-quite-peaceful and a wee bit dogmatic in the open space community" and every other
community.<br><br>Cheerio from a really sunny and warm day in Healesville, SE Australia,<br>Allison.<br></pre><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></body></html>