<div dir="auto">Christine and Skye,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It takes so little for me to create these little thank you notes. As you gift us with your brave stories, sharing openly, it gives us courage in our work and reminds us how lucky we are to have each other, to be connected with such a wonderful community in life. My act of courage is stepping forward, not wanting to take credit for you, not wanting to diminish it in any way, yet feeling a deep need to celebrate it and share it.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On Facebook, Eva P. Svensson said: "Wish I was there, and know that you are the right people and that you will have a great time 🌟".</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> To which I responded:</div><div dir="auto">"Eva, as we watch each other's work, somehow I think it's as if we are there holding Space with others from afar. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Harrison never certified or franchised Open Space Technology. All that he asked is that we share our stories. I think that also means sharing pictures and sending little notes like yours here. It makes us all feel connected... Like butterflies and bumblebees, visible or invisible."</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Suzanne from Florida where it's also cold but not nearly as cold as Maine or the Northeast. Be warm.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 7, 2018 3:26 AM, "christine koehler" <<a href="mailto:chris.alice.koehler@gmail.com" target="_blank">chris.alice.koehler@gmail.com</a><wbr>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Thank you so much Suzanne, SO incredibly nice of you to dedicate so much of your time and energy to sharing the words of others<br>Christine<br><div><br>Le 7 janv. 2018 à 02:01, Suzanne Daigle via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.<wbr>org</a>> a écrit :<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Christine, merci pour le souvenir de ce Forum Ouvert où tu as ouvert une espace extraordinaire. Thank you Christine for the indelible memory of this moment in 2015 when you opened the Space in New York. Your words are as powerfully resonant as when you told us the story then. Not too long, rest assured. And Skye thank you for extending such a compelling call to action for our upcoming gathering. <div><br></div><div>In honor of what you've both written, I created a collage of photos from years past and posted on Facebook. It's a time when each of you were in New York. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/7189220743/?multi_permalinks=10156959599630744¬if_id=1515286052533116¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>groups/7189220743/?multi_<wbr>permalinks=10156959599630744&<wbr>notif_id=1515286052533116&<wbr>notif_t=feedback_reaction_<wbr>generic</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Suzanne xoxo</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_7558697195589737893gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Suzanne Daigle<br>Open Space Facilitator<br>NuFocus Strategic Group<br><br>FL <span><a href="tel:(941)%20359-8877" value="+19413598877" target="_blank">941-359-8877</a></span><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span><img></span></span></span><br>Cell: <span><a href="tel:(203)%20722-2009" value="+12037222009" target="_blank">203-722-2009</a></span><br><a href="http://www.nufocusgroupusa.com" target="_blank">www.nufocusgroupusa.com</a><br><a href="mailto:s.daigle@nufocusgroup.com" target="_blank">s.daigle@nufocusgroup.com</a><br>Twitter @Daiglesuz<br><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 5:22 AM, christine koehler via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.<wbr>org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear OS community,<div><br></div><div>As I am preparing myself to open space (and also longing for not being able to join you at the International House next week), I came across the story I wrote just after the Paris attack in 2015 and that I told when opening space for the Practice of Peace. </div><div>Reading it again after those years, I believe it is too long a story to be used to open space. </div><div>However, I remember how meaningful it was for me at that time to be able to connect the terrible events I had gone through and the hope I had (and still have) that opening space might be one very meaningful way to act when dealing with events that bring sorrow to life. How meaningful it was also to be able to share my story with you.</div><div>This summer, while attending an Art of Hosting gathering, I met a man from Austria whose son was deeply injured in the next attack, in November of the same year, in Bataclan, the club where 130 persons were killed. His family is still today heavily impacted by those terrible days. This made me think that those stories may still be worth sharing.</div><div><br></div><div>Here it goes.</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-size:12px">"To begin this seminar and welcome you I could offer you the story of this year theme </span><b style="font-size:12px">“Opening Space for Peace and High Performance in Work and in Life: Navigating Chaos, Confusion and Conflict »</b><span style="font-size:12px">. The first part « Peace and High performance » comes from Harrison. As he loves to tell stories, I am sure he will be delighted to tell it to you when he will be there this afternoon or in the coming days. And if you forget to ask him, just read his book « Wave Rider: leadership for high performance » where the story is being told.</span><span class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:12px"> </span></p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">Instead I will tell you how strong those words echoed for me in the past days, as we in France went through as you all know those terrible moments.</p><p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><br></p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">I was in my office on Wednesday, January 7, a grey winter day in Paris, preparing to receive guests I had invited via Twitter to listen together to the launch of an online course some of you may know : Otto Scharmer’s U lab, dealing with Transforming Business, Society, and Self. A theme dear to my heart. That’s at that precise moment that I learned that our satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, has been attacked and that many of “them” were dead. You may know what happened in those dreadful days: the initial 13 deaths, the tracking, the shooting of several police officers, the Jewish supermarket assaulted, more deaths and the killing of the 3 gunmen.<span class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">I have seen this going on in front of my eyes. The supermarket is 15mn’s walk away from my apartment. Charlie Hebdo’s newspaper is closed to the university where my daughter is studying. One of the supermarket clients studied in the same business school than my husband. All those horrors sounding suddenly so close. So during those days, I experienced a large, very large palette of emotions: shock, anger, sadness, fear, doubt, confusion, more fear for the future: would our society split into opposite camps ? would this lead to more chaos?<span class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"> </p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">After Charlie Hebdo’s shooting, a minute of silence was decided in all public spaces. Private places did the same. Schools did the same. As they did so, we suddenly discovered that there were some classes were children would not silent, would not be shocked by what had happened but found it absolutely normal. Suddenly the kids showed what we all knew was there and had tried to forget. Kids repeat what they hear at home. And so we all heard via radio or TV that there are some places in our society where the killing of others brings joy and comfort. Even if a minority, it shows us that something has gone wrong.<span class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">How was it possible? how did we go together to such a situation where there is such madness? Will we ever be able to change this? Can we define the problem, imagine a solution and just press a button to fix it? Obviously, we won’t. This is not the kind of problem that can be fixed. We already tried, and obviously, those killings showed us that we failed.</p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"> </p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">Then on Sunday, in some places on Saturday, marches were organized all around France. Everybody was invited to join.<span class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">I don't participate often in protest marches because I don’t like big crowds. I am afraid I could be trapped in a sudden moment of violence.<span class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">But this Sunday, it did not matter. Maybe there was a risk, I feared it and I was scared. But one thing I knew for sure was that I cared. I care for being able to live a peaceful life with everyone around me, no matter if they are white, yellow, black or red, if they believe in Jesus, Mahomet or don’t believe in any kinds of gods, if they speak, act ,fight or keep silent. So because I care, I went to the march. And so did 1 and half million people, including governments leaders from all over the world (including some whom we may question the way they understand the word “freedom” or “peace”), representatives of a diversity of religions,. I saw babies, toddlers, teenagers, as well as old people needing a stick to walk. I saw people from all corners of the society, rich and poor alike. I had never seen so many people all around the Place de la Bastille. We couldn’t walk to place de la Nation, the final destination of the march, because of the many barriers to protect the government officials. But we self-organized, walking in nearby streets, finding our ways that were no direction or goals but as a way of being present. we walked, not quite silent all the time, singing, or saying poems aloud.</p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">The effect on me was incredible : being there and feeling that all of us were there to show respect, solidarity, support was comforting. More than once I had tears in my eyes. Like finding a steady point in our hearts again we could lean on. Maybe we’ll be able to do it, after all, maybe we’ll be able to fix the problem, if so many of us care, consider ourselves as relevant and affected, there should be hope. There is hope.<span class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"> </p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">For me this is exactly the story of open space. We live in a complex world, that is becoming more complex every day, or where we see more and more complexity every day, everything being interconnected, because people write, talk, travel, use the internet. One action here impacts the whole. One drawing, one satirical cartoon impacted the world. This shooting impacted the world. Maybe this peace march impacted the world.<span class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">We live more and more often in chaos , confusion, conflict.<span class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">No great man can now save the world, even if deep inside I would love to believe in this kind of magic. The magic in fact is elsewhere : It depends on us all. To invite those who care. And let flow the energy of love. Did anybody tried to organize and control those 1.5 million people in the streets of Paris, a city full of narrow streets? I don’t think so. Someone who cared made an invitation. Those who had the authority prepared the place: initiated a place of origin, a place of destination, advertised 2 roads to follow. It ended up with the place de la Nation, supposed to be the final destination, being full from early morning, and many many more than 2 roads with people marching. I bet the police just secured the minimum, for the officials, and then self-organization took place, every responsible person doing his job, and surfing chaos. Some shops had closed for security reasons. Restaurants and café re-opened and probably had one of the best turnover of the year. I bet if anyone had tried to organize and control 1,5 million people, they would have failed. Just letting us self-organize worked perfectly well. And doing so, without even realizing it, we opened the possibility for peace and high performance, because when we care and take responsibility for what we care for, </p><p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">And thus comes peace.<span class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"> </p>
<p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)">During those 3 days you’ll discover or re-discover –for me it’s a discovery every time- a way to experience this, you will experience in your own bodies how it feels when you take responsibility for what you care, in work and in life.<span class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><span class="m_7558697195589737893HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span class="m_7558697195589737893m_-2880186068713356572gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></p></font></span></div><span class="m_7558697195589737893HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>-- Christine </div></font></span></div>
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