Truly lovely! I can’t wait for the second installment. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com/> Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of averbuch Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 7:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: so OS - Being one with the flow Dear friends and colleagues of the list, I am very stirred up and feel compelled to share an open space that ended last night: This is the first time I felt the endless joy of the experienced surfers, sea gliders, or so I imagine. The fact is I am not a very sporty person yet I adore professional, effortless performance in any field or walk. I can not tell you how happy I am and not even know where to start. Up until now I was working from an internal metaphor of a midwife: cleaning, preparing the physical space, preparing the birth-giver with some exercise and assurance as someone who has real confidence in the delivery process and in every birth-giver; of service, attending the needs, remembering this is not my baby, cherishing the moment of birth and breath. For me the last two days were very powerful and precious days in open space. 180 people (160 of them were men) from High-tech net-work communication, an optical division of an Israeli global company, gathered in Ashkelon right by the Mediterranean sea-shore. "Daniel's cage of lions" by the sea…. opened way for me to extremely powerful vision of myself as a surfer, free and joyous (great for me who doesn't muster any physical mussel that well….). Why surfer? One of the participants came to congratulate for the good work :"it must be hard to direct and navigate 180 people when you do not have a predetermined agenda, and you did it so graciously well", he said. I found myself pondering… and there came the glider's metaphor: "As I worked with you I had no sense of myself as navigating or directing I had the sense of surfing the sea: being totally there, attuned and open; listing with love and care and letting myself be led to were it needs to go. I trust the sea and I trust you people in a way that can be contagious." I heard the dimes ringing in his mind as new insights were popping. That was fun! As a surfer, if I try to stretch this metaphor a bit longer, I love and respect the sea, know it and trust it. I give myself and surrender to its mysterious powers yet I am confident every ride will have its unique life, surprises and teachings and even if it will be rough at the end we shall all make it to the shore (usually wet and full of delight). So happy to be part of oslisters' opening space! I will write the OS event details later. This is the 'preview'; thought if I will not write it immediately in English it will never see daylight…. With deep appreciation for all Tova Tova Averbuch טובה אורבוך 34 Rabinovitz St. רחוב רבינוביץ 34 Holon 58672 חולון Israel 972-3-5523476 [email protected] * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
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