<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Greetings,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I open up a new thread and bring over here what was written before in two other emails:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Harrison Owen: </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">Holding Space involves being “totally present and absolutely invisible”</span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Paul Levy: </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Holding Space involves being gently present, respectfully absent and conveniently and softly unnoticed.</span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I appreciate both descriptions and find them helpful and inspiring for me to (once again) wonder: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-style: italic; white-space: pre;"> </span><i class="">What does holding space involve… </i></b></div><div class=""><i class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> for me?</b></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> for you?</b></i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I invite an exploration of this question further down.</div><div class="">With a little nudge into a new direction.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Before…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>***</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">…a side note on conversations on this list:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Part of my personal „Practice of Peace“ <i class="">(which is the name of the first book by Harrison I read and the one that impacted me the most) </i>involves having as little „who is right -who is wrong“ conversations as possible. My preference is exploring, sharing, co-creating. I seek to contribute to that by the language I use.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many summers ago, I learned about <a href="https://liveconscious.com/about/respeak/" class="">Percept Language</a>. Which I understand as a way of speaking that acknowledges how we create our reality, moment to moment. I imagine that we all perceive differently, and I actually cannot say how something „is“ but just how it is „for me“. (For those interested in exploring this take on language, also check out <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime" class="">E-Prime</a>.) </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Speaking not in „this is how it IS“ but in „this is what I PERCEIVE“ is so unusual in our cultural—hardly anyone does it. I consciously practice this habit all the time, since 15 years, and I stumble daily. Yet I make myself hopeful with acknowledging my progress!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The setup of OST doesn’t include „who is right - who is wrong?" Instead OST invites people to post all the topics that are uniquely meaningful to them. Those which got stirred up in the context of an overall theme.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If I had it my way ;-) conversations on this list reflect that spirit of diversity and non-judgement. Of acknowledging how we all perceive through our individual lenses.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>***</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Back to my invitation:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This topic has been explored on this list before. Many times. I know.</div><div class="">So to make it fresh, I wanna give it two nudges:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* What does holding space involve... <b class="">for me personally</b>?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Let’s share in any way that suits us, be it words, poetic, via music, painting or…</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>And see what <b class=""><font color="#ff91ff" class="">wildly</font> <font color="#17d2ff" class="">colourful</font> <font color="#ff9d00" class="">picture</font></b> we can co-create!</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I’ll also contemplate on this anew. Space is open... for you! :-)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Do I make a difference between holding space for an OST as a 1-time-event (like an annual conference) </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>compared to an OST as part of a conscious organisational transformation? </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>If so, in which way?</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I imagine the latter can be of special interest to all who are into organisational transformation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>***</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And before I close, here is an additional invitation for to those who </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- think globally</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- see themselves as leaders of some kind</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- and appreciate a space for emergence:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Global Oasis for Emerging Leaders is coming up: August 26 / Sept 24 / Oct 9...</div><div class="">To whomever that is interesting, <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-oasis-for-emerging-leaders-tickets-58880372780" class="">check it out here</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Greetings,</div><div class="">Marai</div></div></div><div class="">
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