Dear Tricia and everyone else,
seeing you using "sharing circle" makes me wonder what other names we
have for the closing circle.
Have a great day
mmp
Am 18.08.2022 um 00:38 schrieb Tricia Chirumbole:
Thanks Michael! This speaks to me and I anticipate will Influence my
next sharing circle šš½ā¤ļø
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On Aug 18, 2022, at 5:15 AM, Michael M Pannwitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
ļ»æ 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 slipĀ 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 earlierĀ 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,Ā 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,Ā 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 youĀ 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 inĀ 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) ā both in-person and
online. Powerful, beautiful and healing for the soul, I believe.
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