I have another thought about OS which comes as a result of talking with a friend of mine who is a movement therapist. The sort of work she does involves what they call on hands work which means that sometimes she takes bodyparts of clients (head, legs, but also organs like liver, kidneys) in her hands and moves with them. What she does is tries to find the natural rhythm of different systems within the body (the blood, the muscles, the lymph system, etc.) It is something that at least for me is a great experience but thats something else. In any case, her work means that when she is with her clients she is very tuned in to the rhythms of the body and she explained to me yesterday that when she heard me talk about OS what amazed her is that the Priniciples and the Law are exactly what she has to do when working with the body. She has to focus on what is there, (not on what she wants to be there or what she hoped shed find) she has to let whatever happens happen (if she wants to move an organ to the left but the organ doesnt want to it creates stress, blockage of the system, and a big fight between lets say her hands and your liver), things have their own time scales and she cant rush things either to start or to finish (each rhythm will manifest itself, and her actions to stimulate it dont work, she just places her hands and is patient to see what is there) and when she feels she needs to move on, she does.
The most interesting thing to me about this was how she explained that this is what a body worker like her needs to learn in order to be successful because otherwise (in their work) the body rebels, becomes hard, and doesnt respond. Perhaps its a bit far but if this is true on a physical level of the organs, the blood, they lymph etc. then maybe another reason that OS can be used all over is because it is picking up on very deep human (and molecular even) rhythms that transcend culture and move into the realm of biology. Of course beyond that it seems really obvious to believe that certain cultures are more in tune with this biological rhythm than others . I dont know enough about working with the body in the way she does, but I thought it might be interesting to add to this discussion. Doris Gottlieb -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]]Namens Mikk Sarv Verzonden: woensdag 11 juni 2003 16:55 Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: American and native OS I agree with HO that OS is in a great extent native and natural thing, what has been practiced in one or another form around world for thousands of years. This is perhaps the reason, why it is so easily applicable in whatever language and environment. Another question is the renewal of this ancient and powerful tool. There is a nice rule: don't fix it if it works! Most of facilitators of OS around world seem to stick pretty punctually to the way OS facilitation is proposed to convene in Users Guide, repeating carefully all sentences etc. As the OS in English (American) works so powerfully there seems to be no need for it's alteration. In many languages even the name of it, Open Space is often left untranslated. I am passionate to find the contact with native OS traditions. I am much grateful for any guidance to resources in listserve archives about this topic. I am also much interested to develop here further ideas and experiences of OS in other languages and traditions. August 15-17 there is going to be held the second OS conference Earth and People in a small village Shongui of Murmansk region, Russian Saamiland. Russian Saamis (lapps) are rediscovering their native ways of OS nad plan to have annually a meeting on that topic in their country. We from Estonia invite people to face2face OS meeting "Native OS as Practice of Peace" in Tartu University for the first week of February 2004. With greetings, Mikk Sarv * * ========================================================== [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
