Thanks Michael! This speaks to me and I anticipate will Influence my next sharing circle 🙏🏽❤️
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 18, 2022, at 5:15 AM, Michael M Pannwitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Thomas in Sweden, > > alter Schwede (gosh), what is "inviting/using a talking object for the > speaker"(and inviting the others to be respectful listeners)? > Maybe its the 32 Celsius in this part of the world that disables my > mind/understanding. > > I guess you are referring to passing a talking stick in the closing circle of > an ost event? If that is not the case, read on anyway. > > In that situation, if I recall correctly, I never asked folks to be > "respectful" listeners in a closing circle in my role as facilitator. > Mind you, in other roles it could slip into my language... > > Last time I sat in a closing circle in the role of facilitator was 2012. (It > was also in Berlin and definitely not 32 Celsius, in fact, this particular > sponsor had his events always in January or February, see here >> https://openspaceworldscape.org/events?tag=&q=NACOA&commit=Search > > I recall what I usually said before passing the talking stick (by 2012 and > earlier I had stopped using the holy talking stick I was given by Canadian > colleagues at the WOSonOS in Toronto in 1997, a small piece of charred wood > that was part of a very old oak... this oak originally was doomed to be cut > down to make room for the Scarborough Civic Center in Toronto but saved by > very concerned folks who convinced the architect, Raymond Moriyama, to build > the center around the oak... not long after that was completed the oak was > hit by lightening and caught fire... everyone who was part of the initiative > to save the oak received a small piece of it... it was so powerful that > everytime I used it I had to cry and others in the circle apparently, too... > I wrapped this powerful talking stick in a cotton bag and its been sleeping > there since then). > Oh no, I keep indulging in my passion to writespeak ad infinitum. Sorry. > > Ok, here is what I said in the os in 2012 with 200 participants at the end of > a three day event in my role as facilitator at the closing circle ritual: > > "This talking stick works like this: Coming your way you don't think about > anything beforehand. When it reaches you, hold it, and hold it for a moment. > Don't pass it on right away, just hold it for a moment. And then if something > surfaces, you say it. And the others listen. And if nothing surfaces, we > listen into the silence. And if you say something from the heart, then we > listen with our hearts." > (I also remember now, that these words, spoken after the 200 had entered a > phase of silence, intensified the silence widening the space for listening, > speaking, reacting in non-verbal interventions, singing a song, getting up > and bowing into the circle...) > > Right, I introduced them into the ritual in a way one might speak to an actor > before the take. > It worked this last time in 2012 and had worked every time before without me > requesting respect or other such stuff. > > Respectfully yours and hoping you are in a cool nook in Sweden and all the > best for your motorbike ride to the WOSonOS in Bilbao at the end of September > with Jo > see here >> https://www.openspaceworldmap.org/worker/jo-topfer > > and maybe some of the others I have seen coming to European OSonOS (Learning > Exchanges) such as the biker Andrea from Italy, riding his bike all the way > from Italy to Utrecht/Netherlands in 2013 see here >> https://www.openspaceworldmap.org/worker/andrea-moretti > > Love and Peace > mmp > > This email above is in response to what Thomas in Kungsbacka/Sweden wrote to > Michael in Boise/USA in the string started by Christine Koehler in > Paris/France: > 5 days OST in 3 langages. Practical and general considerations > "Wow Michael, this makes so much sense and I experience it stronger every > time when inviting/using an talking object for the speaker (and inviting the > others to be respectful listeners) – both in-person and online. Powerful, > beautiful and healing for the soul, I believe. > > Thomas" > Michael M Pannwitz > Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany > +49 30 7728000 [email protected] > > See the Open Space World Map with 511 Open Space Workers living in 77 > countries and active in 142 countries worldwide: www.openspaceworldmap.org > > And see books/ebooks and task cards on open space and other related > treasures, most in German, some in English, some multilingual: > https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Kommunikation > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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