The lights are on! Hi Mike Here's the poem that sprung to me as I read your story.....(poet unknown to me)
the kangaroo jumped the wall the wall of the zoo my god that was high my god that was good With your big heart, generous spirit and the best belly laugh I've heard in years you and OST can only journey richly together generating harmony, wholeness, peace and fun in our world. Warm wishes Helen ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Copeland To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:39 AM Subject: The lights are on! Greetings All I feel I've been a voyeur of your amazing sharings and learning's over the past three months and feel it is time to launch into cyber space with my experience of this Open Space stuff. I work as an environmental educator with communities and have realised my need for better facilitation skills for a little while now. I duly trained in Open Space with Helen Patterson in early March this year. Since then I have opened space three times. Little has prepared me for the change that is currently taking place with myheart, my head and eyes!. Everywhere I look I see space opening and closing! I have a name for that awful feeling I have when I see my contribution getting systematically picked to pieces and given back to me in tatters; conversely I have a name for when people truly act with integrity. I used to think I was a great facilitatator, could read a group, could intervene just at the right moment, could hold it together under huge adversity...; I can tell you I was tired! Big question: How do people survive the heirarchical structures we have out there? How do people live with/out open space in their own lives? Now I'm on this trail I really don't want to be living and working in any other way. All the best Mike Copeland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Attention: This e-mail (and attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
