Tim, Once more, thanks for sharing this song with us. Wonderful :)
Warmly, Dragana ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Merry - Engage! To: [email protected] Sent: 26 June 2003 11:58 AM Subject: Open Space Rap Dear OS Listers Recently at Shamabhala Institute in Canada, Nova Scotia, I wrote a rap to introduce open space. Toke Moller and Marianne Knuth invited me into their module on convening conversations and the art of hosting to offer it to thier group. It was well recieved and has given me the inspiration to offer it here! Below is a copy of the rap ... have pics of the shambhala reading if you're interested ... I would love any feedback, additions, changes, break beats to put under it, recording contracts ... Enjoy ... Tim ([email protected]) The Open Space Rap Welcome to Open Space, This is the place Of a new fashion, You get to organise Around your passion! The task: To ask 'what really matters to me?' Then take responsibility Guided by our core question Which I am about to mention READ CORE QUESTION Let's get this started 'cause this train has already departed Here's the first mind bender: We ain't got no agenda! Yet ... But I'll bet in 30 minutes or less No stress That wall will be full And choice will be the tension In a packed programme guided by our intention: CORE QUESTION AGAIN (?) How to do it? How to fly? Let me try and Clarify: If you got a workshop to offer to the question Head to the centre, Grab a pen and write the intention Or topic and your name, To give it some fame Announce it to us all, Then take a time a time and place And stick it to the wall. So simple No trouble atall. But here's another mind blaster: You do not have to be A master Expert Or Mentor. This here is a curious centre. If you know nothing and want to know more, Don't hold or stop Host a workshop! It's a sure cure To learn more. Which brings me to the principles and one law: 'Whoever comes are the right people' to have around. They are the ones with the passion For the ground You are hoping to cover Everyone else is searching in the other Workshops Serving our core intention. We working together In sperate places, It's a great invention! So, what happens if no-one comes? All alone. When was the last time You got to stop and reflect On your own? Especialy on something that Gets you out of your seat Makes your heart beat. This time is for your passion To bring Unqiue learning To us all. Honour the call. 'Whatever happens is the only thing that could have' So let go of expectation Of what this should be, Set it free. Trust the open space form It holds the storm. 'When it starts is the right is the right time' It's no crime To chat or have a cup of tea Be free and see When you begin Don't force it to be happpenin'. 'When it's over it's over' Don't hang on Move on To where you belong. To fill the time gap It's a trap So get up and get movin' To find a space where You be contributin'. You see this ain't now normal meetin' Cause we be 'law of two feetin'' Use your feet Don't just sit SPLIT To move to where you Learn of share. So be aware You can be like the Humble Bumble bee, Tripping from place to place And cross pollinate, Connecting info Helping collective wisdom grow. One other character Who arrives with a flutter Is the butter - fly. Who hangs out, looking good As a butterfly should. A place of still To stop and reflect Have the conversation you least expect, A wonderful insect! Some final words on Workshop hosting. It ain't all coasting! If you pin it up on the wall You responsible for that call. The workshop gotta happen, Even if you don't go You responsible for opening the show. Second thing, There's only two (PHEW!) Please record what is cooking 'cause we all looking to see in gallery. Have no fear it is pretty clear, There a template set up for the usin', Now we're cruisin Into the final moments before Opening the wall And the market stall. Just to say again Grab a paper and pen Write your workshop Announce it to us all Then stick it to the wall With a time and place, Take your time this ain't no race. With no more ado, I Open Space ... ----- Original Message ----- From: Harrison Owen To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 1:37 PM Subject: Re: Is it possible to live OS? At 12:49 PM 6/24/2003 +1200, Mike Copeland wrote: I'm finding open space has hit me right between the eyes in the last four months. I'm taking initiative wherever I want to lately and am not waiting for permission; wherever that was meant to come from anyway! I'm actually doing what I want to do. Is that OK? I mean I thought I was meant to do eveything I didn't want to do! The big thing is I'm not intervening anymore. Getting out of the way is so freeing. I feel all my life I've been trained to get IN the way! Although I do miss out on that exhausted feeling. I know this may sound like I'm a babbling convert here, but quite honestly if this is living open space long may it continue. Sounds like you have it right -- to me. But then what else could I say given my reply to Raffi Aftandelian (above) ? If it is true that life is all about self-organization, as is Open Space, when you remember what you already are, it feels great. Certainly much better than pretending to be something you are not???? Of course, it doesn't always feel great. Sometimes the great hooded monsters of Chaos, Confusion, and Conflict rear their ugly heads, and things can get downright unpleasant, made even more so if we take it as a personal insult because they are not following our plan. 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