Dearest Julie
you wrote:
< I want to say again that I have been deeply and positively
impacted by each and every message I have read on this list that relates to the
events of Tuesday morning. I thank you from the bottom of my
heart, one and all. And also to all who remain silently understanding, I thank
you. Your silent support is as important as all that is spoken
outloud. I feel your strong and powerful presence. To those who I know and
love, and to those I have not yet known, thank you.>
You touched me so deeply and so directly that as so you were hearing my
thoughts and prayers.
I feel the need to say thank you from the bottom of my joining heart.
My os friends:
I did not have words.
but silent support
trying to care and carry
not to barry
hope
for those who are still under the ruins
to be rescued,
awaiting what is to be born
after this end of the world.
being torn apart
being a part of
*U.S, us and all of us
(thank you florian for noticing *US - us)
I want to thank every one on the list for being here and sharing and holding
this space
with support
Tova Averbuch
Israel
----- Original Message -----
From: Julie Smith
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: Peace, Truth, Justice and Mercy
Dear Eugenio and all,
I have often shared that sense of relief when someone, anyone, expressed
understanding or appreciation of the words I have spoken so wrenchingly from my
heart. Eugenio, I thank you for putting words to that feeling we all share. I
want to say again that I have been deeply and positively impacted by each and
every message I have read on this list that relates to the events of Tuesday
morning. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, one and all. And also to
all who remain silently understanding, I thank you. Your silent support is as
important as all that is spoken outloud. I feel your strong and powerful
presence. To those who I know and love, and to those I have not yet known,
thank you.
In my efforts to push past my fear to reach my open loving courageous space,
these words from Audre Lourde sometimes come to mind:
"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision,
then it becomes less and less important whether or not I am afraid."
peace to us all ~
Julie
----- Original Message -----
From: Eugenio Moliní
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: Peace, Truth, Justice and Mercy
Dear all and Diane S. Menedez:
I thank you from the deepest of my soul for your acknowledgement of my
message. It helped a lot to open my inner Space again. It took a great effort
to force myself out of shock and write my first message. After that I was
receeding again back into shock when your message asking for more information
came through showing that any voice, even mine, counts. I share whatever needs
to be shared if it can help anybody anywhere. And by sharing also help myself
to JUST DO IT! as Harrison Owen exhorts us to do.
This morning I was supervising at a psychiatric hospital here in Stockholm,
Sweden. The session became something different than what it usually is. It
became an Open Space for sharing whatever needed to be shared. I didn´t do
anything to open it. The need was just there. The space kept closing and
opening during three hours. The feelings of powerlessness made some people
utter terrible things about inmigrants in general, muslims and jews in
particular. The space closed, but opened again in miraculous ways. I don' t get
it, but I imagine that that' s what we are going to see once and again in the
months to come. Responsibility and passion for keeping it open wherever we go
is the task.
For some minutes ago I saw President Bush crying on TV and at the same time
saying : I have a job to do. Well, we cry, despair and shout, ... and we also
have a job to do. I join my voice with H.Owens. JUST DO IT!
You question Diane:
The training was organized by the Norwegian Peace Center, in Lillehamer,
Norway. The facilitator/trainer was John Paul Lederach, from the Eastern
Mennonite University, Virginia, USA. He has written some wonderful and useful
books. Two of them are:
"Building Peace: Sustainable reconciliation in divided societies"
United States Institute for Peace Press 1997
ISBN 1-878379-73-9
"Preparing for pace: Conflict transformation across cultures"
Syracuse University Press 1995
ISBN 0-8156-2656-8
Moliní - Managing Complexity
Eugenio Moliní
[email protected]
Mobil: +46 (0)70 5644668
Brunbarsvagen 8
11421 Stockholm
Sverige
-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Diane S.
Menendez, Ph.D.
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 3:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Peace, Truth, Justice and Mercy
Hi to all and Eugenio,
Can you share the name of the person or firm who did the training? I'm
participating in a collaborative here in Cincinncati that is led by Jay
Rothman, of the ARIA group, who specializes in mediation for Identity Based
Conflicts. The four voices are a wonderfully memorable way of guiding our
hearing and perceptions for what is, and for what is missing and needed.
Thank you so much.
Blessings,
Diane
At 03:44 PM 9/12/01, you wrote:
A couple of years ago I was in a training for mediators called
"Sustainable Reconciliation in divided societies".
Participants came from Chechenja, The Balcans, The African Great Lakes
Region, Northern Ireland, ... and a majority of people like me from the western
welfare societies.
One of the most impacting learnings was that for reconciliation to take
place, four voices have to be heard and allowed to permeate all actions. Those
are the voices of Peace, Truth, Justice and Mercy.
In the media and political speeches I hear the voice of Justice clear
and loud, maybe the whispers of Truth.
In this list/space I can read what Mercy and Peace have to say.
Let´s keep the space open so that all four can be expressed and acted
in the same Space and at the same Time.
I pray that president Bush hears the four voices and allows them to
permeate all the actions that he will have to order.
My deepest condoleances to all those that are directly affected by this
terrorist action and to all of us (and them whoever they are) that are too.
Moliní - Managing Complexity
Eugenio Moliní
[email protected]
Mobil: +46 (0)70 5644668
Brunbarsvagen 8
11421 Stockholm
Sverige
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