Dear friends,
Thank you to everyone who has waded out into the deeper surf to share
difficult feelings and to ask challenging questions. I bow to your
courage and integrity.
For the past 4 years, the conversations and experiences surrounding
the WOSonOS's have been particularly provocative. It feels to me as
if we are becoming truly global in nature rather than merely in
intention.
The patterns that stand out for me are:
Lack of a real issue of genuine concern --at a worldwide level as a
community
Increasingly apparent gap in access and diversity as we have become
more global
Increasingly unsustainable practice of in-person global gatherings in
a globally threatened ecosystem.
Significant investment of individual and community resources for
reportedly diminishing returns
Increasing complicatedness (not complexity) of process (producing
barriers and sense of competition)
I am intrigued by the quest for a truly global day where we can
interact to share learnings and wonderings. I wonder how we might do
this with the least impact on planet and pocketbook and the most
access and diversity. I feel i want to encourage all those, Artur,
Phelim, Juan, Matilda who have a passion to host conversations that
matter about OST and how we can grow together as practitioners not to
wait for 'approval' but to simply invite and see who shows up--keeping
the focus local and the invitation global. Let those of us with
wanderlust take responsibility for our own passions and conscience.
(Perhaps a shift in how the Access Queen funds work? Provide support
to both individuals seeking skill enhancing experiences and to
locations seeking to bring experience in?)
I am intrigued by the opportunities that technology may offer to link
us together on a day. And deeply aware of its short-comings and the
wisdom of local focus, global effectiveness.
With no answers, but deep respect for the questions and those who have
raised them,
Splash, splash,splash,
Wendy
On 18-May-10, at 5:37 PM, Michael Herman wrote:
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