<div dir="auto">Dearest Skye,<div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">Thank you for the gift of what you wrote. You captured in words (how is that possible?) the beautiful ineffable spirit of this upcoming gathering and of Open Space. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I arrived at Cherry Hill Park late yesterday. Here to indulge in 3 days of pre-WOSonOS learning and sharing with Thomas Herrmann, Anna Caroline Turk and other participants.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I feel myself arriving like an empty vessel, wishing to listen, hear, feel and be with each and all who will be here and others like you Skye who are so present from afar. Seeking to quiet my mind, to temper my emotions, to let the days unfold as they will. Peacefully, quietly. It's not easy. A mix of grief and anticipatory joy.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Impossible to ignore the</div><div dir="auto">confusion, the very real pain, chaos and yes distractions of so much happening in the world. Impossible to not feel the urgency to be doing, to be doing more, helping, speaking out, and taking action.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Tis not always easy to give ourselves permission to discover and savor each other. And yet I believe that it is in the joy of that togetherness, that our spirits lift and that we lift others, now and beyond this circle. It where the Aliveness happens.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In the end, no better guide for me this week, as part of the beautiful ineffable, than the five principles of Open Space, the one law and a Be Prepared to be Surprised!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So thank you Skye, for the love of what you sent. And for who you are for us and others. You will be holding the space at a distance, in Maine, that special place that Harrison also calls home!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Suzanne</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 7:43 AM Skye Hirst via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">How does Open Space Technology help us experience harmony,
wholeness?<span> </span>This may well be the
most ineffable idea in today’s busy world.<span> </span>Life seems to present moments of such harmoniousness and we
may notice them when they happen and then forget them.<span> </span>They don’t get highlighted as something
possible on any dependable scale, so they get passed over, dismissed as a
“nice” experience but most likely we don’t share them.<span> </span>However, the artists among us will
capture them through their medium. We love the feelings this work gives us,
this reminder of those numinous realities. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">What happens in OST?<span> </span>What are those realities we experience more often than
not while participating in a concentrated time around an invitation question,
an urgency, a group of people sitting in circle, creating an agenda and sitting with questions, getting to deeper ones?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">I believe OST is micro of a macro reality that life’s
organism ways provide for us in every moment.<span> </span>“Come to the circle, tell us your tale, you are not the only
one who is hurting.”<span> </span>This phrase
from a song written in the 80s by a friend, speaks of the power of OST.<span> </span>There is something so powerful about
being reminded, you get to choose how and where and when you give your
attention.<span> </span>It has been called an antidote
to the world of hierarchical dominating meetings, work life and organizationally
dead structures. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">So I say, I want to capture the ineffable, but how silly
that is.<span> </span>And yet, we can point to
shared experience, to knowledge that goes beyond words, to celebrate this most
amazing, awe-generating process abiding in living structures, living “becoming”
events that are <i>alivenmaking</i>.<span> </span>Let’s listen for the harmonies, for the
moments of felt sensing our wholeness, our unity, and our differences at the
same time.<span> </span>This is a “both and
world,” not an “either/or” one.<span> </span>It
takes work only in that we remember what we can easily forget with distractions
and constant “busy-ness.”<span> </span>Notice
when those moments of peacefulness enter into the “field” when we take a long
breath and let it out fully, sitting with one another without needing to fix or
change ourselves, or the other. What are your experiences of “fulfillment” of
listening in to deep knowledge of being alive? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">One OST participant spoke of it as something one cannot talk
about, but to experience it is to have lived, feeling aliveness and we want it
more and more. Then we want others to have the experience so we try to talk
about it.<span> </span>I say, “Come to the
Circle, tell us your tale, you are not the only one who is hurting.” <span> </span><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The storyteller tells his tales and we remember those times
his stories happened in our lives, or we make sense of a story we have not
understood about our tale. Then we begin again with a new story.<span> </span>Keep coming to the circle, telling us
your tales, one and all.<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Blessings to all this week for great WOSONOS in DC.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Song <b><i>Healing Circle</i></b> is by Julia Hickory 1984, Album Joyful Noise and Friends <b><i>Birdsong
Morning</i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>Healing Circle<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Come to the Circle</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Listen to our tales</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">You will find you’re not the only one who’s hurting</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">And the light may shine in</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">This is where we begin</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The magic of our healing</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Alone in your room, you think you’re the only one</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">And you’re wondering if your might be crazy</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">So you lock all the pain and the shame deep inside</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">And your skies are always dark and hazy</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">But if you Come to the Circle</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Tell us your tales</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The light will shine in,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">This is where we begin</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The magic work of our healing.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">You are not unimportant, we need all the words</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">And the melodies to harmonize</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The darker the shadows, the brighter the sun</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">And your tears are the stars in our eyes.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">So won’t you Come to the Circle</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Tell us your tales</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">And the light will shine in</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">This is where we begin</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The magic work of our healing</p>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Skye HIrst, PhD</b></div><div><b>Autognomics</b><br></div><div><i>Conversations in Radical WholeKnowing<br></i></div><div><b>Just-in-Time Coaching and Consulting</b><br></div><div><a href="http://jitcc.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">jitcc.org </a><br></div><div>Twitter @autognomics <br></div><div>207-691-3172 mobile<br></div><div><br></div><div><b><i>"There is no final fact." </i></b> Alfred North Whitehead<br></div><div><p><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(15,36,62)">"Nature ever flows, stands never still. Motion or change is her mode of existence."</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(15,36,62)"></span></b></p><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(15,36,62)">- Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></b><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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