Thank you, Harrison. We were talking about this very thing during yesterday's
VOSonVOS Design Team telephone conference. We were describing how much we
wanted the facilitators' page - where we are holding space - to be comprised of
pictures, poetry and perhaps audio - sensory stimulating pieces that bring the
participant into the whole with feeling. As we described these images, we
realized that we were FEELING them as we spoke and that we felt much more in
communion with each other and very much at peace with the process in a way we
hadn't before.
Blessings,
Toni Petrinovich
----- Original Message -----
From: Harrison Owen
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 5:10 AM
Subject: Re: Columbia OS
At 05:03 PM 4/27/2002 +1000, denis wrote:
I have not worked in a similiar situation since. However what I would
have liked to try was 2 interpreters. One to talk for me and one to listen
for me. Hopefully that way I would have got all of the asides etc.
On the subject of listening to "asides" -- I have a rather different take. A
substantial number of the Spaces I open occur in situations where the language
spoken is not my own. In the past 4 months, this has included Serbian, Hebrew,
Arabic, Swedish and Beloxi (a strange tongue they speak in Mississippi). I find
that missing out on the words forces me to a deeper level of communication --
that 95% done without words. My relationship to the group is mediated by such
things as movement (dance) smell, gut feelings (intuition), taste, color to
name a few. By missing out on all the good gossip, I find that I am much more
attuned to the flavor of the whole group -- which I think is where my attention
should be in order to be fully present to the whole body of folks. So what
might seem like a disadvantage is, in my experience, a real plus. I have never
felt that I missed anything essential, and it also seems to carry over into
English speaking environments -- where it is all too easy to get trapped by the
discussion and then move into the "expert, fix-it" role.
Harrison
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