I hadn't thought of using fire bells. Usually the Tibetan temple bells work just fine, but this idea really drives home the point. ;-)
Congrats Shay, Chris --- CHRIS CORRIGAN Bowen Island, BC, Canada http://www.chriscorrigan.com ch...@chriscorrigan.com (604) 947-9236 > -----Original Message----- > From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Seamus > McInerney > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 1:44 PM > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Subject: It works, it really does! > > Hi All, > Excuse my exuberance but today I facilitated my first OS. > To finally get a chance to do the biz was great. It is exactly one year to > the day since Michael Herman was in Ireland for the first OS practice > workshop. Wowed by that experience I waited and waited for an opportunity > and today I got it. > > Martin Gianini, who had organised the workshop last year, had to pull out > of this event at the last minute (he shipped off to Africa on Sunday). So > with 8 days notice, he offered it to me. I grabbed it. > Not exactly the most polished performance you have ever seen but it > worked. > There were 160 expected and 120 turned up. They new exactly what they > wanted to talk about and 16 topics were posted initially, with 2 more > added > in the afternoon. The group were all care workers, working with young > teenage parents or volunteers working with parenting groups. > > Expect the unexpected! > Well I am walking the circle and suddenly see my sister-in-law sitting in > the front row. > > Just as I declare the Village market place open, the fire alarm goes off. > Everybody stands up to head for the exits. It stops but before they can > sit > down again I remind them they were going to the wall. People were heard to > ask how I managed to get the bell to ring at just that moment. > > But it worked as everyone on this list has always said it would. And we > have a whole bunch of new devotees to open space here in Ireland. > > Thank you all for the advice and support given through the list over the > last year, which enabled me to accept this challenge with total faith in > the outcome. > > Now I need to go to bed because I got very little sleep last night. > > Shay > > > Crossroads Facilitation > 50 Carrigdhoun, Waterpark, Carrigaline, Co. Cork > www.crossroadsfacilitation.ie > "Building bridges and getting you over them" > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, > Visit: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
