<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><font size="3">I listened from Harrison some words that caused profound impact on me: "OS is a training for life." In that sense, I think to do a final reflection on the process is essential, because transformation only emerges when people find meaning for themselves about what they do. If we take into account that western culture is goal-oriented, if you do not guide the look to the process, most of the people won't be aware of what happened in between. For me, OS was transformative when I understood it as a training for life and not only as a mean to achieve some results, and this happened when I really paid attention to the conditions that make the OS process so powerful and I let me go through them. </font>Only then I realized what had caused the OS in me as a person, and this was training for life...</div><div style="color:
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Michael M Pannwitz <mmpanne@boscop.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> OSLIST <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, September 4, 2012 8:21 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSList] medicine wheel? anyone?<br> </font> </div> <br>
I stopped using the Medicine Wheel years ago when the thought crossed my<br>mind, that this was more an interest (stake) of mine and had probably<br>very little to do with my role of attempting to be fully present and<br>completely invisible. Also, I began to feel that I was employing a<br>"tool" in an attempt to have participants become more aware of what a<br>grand experience they had just been through... is that really my<br>business? Does it make more time and space for the forces of<br>selforganisation?<br>Greetings from Berlin<br>mmp<br><br>On 04.09.2012 14:08, Harrison Owen wrote:<br>> Not to twist thoughts or maybe bend minds – but I doubt that anything is<br>> “essential” when it comes to facilitating an Open Space gathering, if<br>> only because the fundamental process, (self organization) was there way<br>> before OST. Not of our making or control. And if we did absolutely<br>> nothing, self organization would roll on. BUT
I believe we<br>> (facilitators/practitioners/?) can add value by helping to bring this<br>> elemental power of life to consciousness awareness. There are all sorts<br>> of ways that can be done, but the more subtle the better. I always loved<br>> the Medicine Wheel for its elegant simplicity and the way it wove<br>> history and tradition into present experience. But is it essential? I<br>> more than suspect that the only “essential” for a good OST is to learn<br>> to do nothing at all…<br>><br>> ho<br>><br>> Harrison Owen<br>><br>> 7808 River Falls Dr.<br>><br>> Potomac, MD 20854<br>><br>> USA<br>><br>> 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<br>><br>> Camden, Maine 20854<br>><br>> Phone 301-365-2093<br>><br>> (summer) 207-763-3261<br>><br>> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.openspaceworld.com/">www.openspaceworld.com</a> <www.openspaceworld.com%20><br>><br>>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ho-image.com/">www.ho-image.com</a> <www.ho-image.com%20> (Personal Website)<br>><br>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of<br>> OSLIST Go<br>> to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br>><br>> *From:*<a ymailto="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>> [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] *On Behalf Of *Raffi<br>> Aftandelian<br>> *Sent:* Monday, September 03, 2012 11:39 PM<br>> *To:* OSlist<br>> *Subject:* [OSList] medicine wheel? anyone?<br>><br>> friends,<br>><br>> craig's
questions encouraged me to post about something i've been<br>> meaning to ask for a while:<br>><br>> i'm curious how much - if at all- do you use the medicine wheel<br>> reflection activity described in the ost user's guide at the end of an<br>> ost meeting.<br>><br>> do you see it as an essential element of a carefully facilitated ost<br>> meeting? or not?<br>><br>> or is it best dropped ('one more thing not to do').<br>><br>> in my training in ost it was presented as essential and for years i did<br>> it and couldn't quite connect to it. but with time however, my<br>> relationship to the medicine wheel changed. and i think it has lots of<br>> value. at the very least it serves a role in bridging, bridging the<br>> experience of the meeting to the monday after the meeting...and beyond.<br>> as in, 'how do we take what we experienced here into our day to day life<br>> in our
organization?'<br>><br>> also my curiousity comes from hardly ever seeing it mentioned on the list...<br>><br>> curious about your responses,<br>><br>> much warmth,<br>><br>> raffi<br>><br>> powered by ubuntu 10.4<br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> OSList mailing list<br>> To post send emails to <a ymailto="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org" href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>> To unsubscribe send an email to <a ymailto="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org" href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br>> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org<br>><br><br>-- <br>Michael M Pannwitz<br>Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany<br>++49 - 30-772 8000<br><br><br><br>Check out
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