Now, if you would also like to get a glimpse of Tenneson, the great story teller, go to http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/ and click on "United States of America MDT" and then on his name, a picture will pop up showing him at some ocean shore in Utah. Greetings from Berlin mmp
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:15:08 -0700, Tenneson Woolf wrote: >Hello to All. > >My name is Tenneson. I am sitting in the stillness of a Utah morning, enjoying >it. > >Thank you Doug for this question. Of the many areas of practice any of us >could choose, I have chosen "open space living" as one for me this year. So, I >would like to share two little stories. > >First, In December I cohosted an Art of Hosting conference near Vancouver, BC. >In open space, I convened a group on "everyday hosting." My interest was about >the spirit of hosting in nonformal hosting settings. Some might call this open >space living. With thanks to my friends / colleagues that participated in that >discussion, there were a few nuggets that I remember well. I remember the >story that one told of his father passing away, and of how many people >remembered him at his funeral. "He was a person that always stopped, or >paused, and said "wait a minute, I wonder if there is another way to think >about this?" From that story, I remember learning that everyday hosting, >everyday opening of space, often begins with someone willing to pause, or to >ask a challenging question. See the attached for the flipchart. > >Second, a couple of weeks ago, my wife and I went out for dinner. This >particular night was intended to create some room for us to talk about several >important things that were brewing for us. Though we had several "tasks" that >we could have talked about, this felt a bit different. It felt like we needed >some opening of space, not just jumping to our list of todos. The wait at the >restaurant was about an hour. I was kind of happy about that. We just sat at >the bar, talking. There was something about needing to wait that gave the >evening a tone of patience. We were in a great conversation about one of the >important things for us. We were enjoying the crowd. Enjoying the Italian >music. After an hour, we shifted to our table to enjoy food together. At this >point, my wife shifted into decision mode -- "So what are we going to do with >this? What is next?" I could feel the space closing. It was open. But now it >was shutting down. I responded, "I feel we should sleep on this and see how it >feels when we wake in the morning." Though this was simple, it shifted the >energy dramatically. We didn't spiral into "let's get this done (so that we >can move on to countless other things)!" Instead, it held the space open, the >glorious big space where many possbilities exist. The pause invited >celebration of the moment, an invitation to continue feeling the bigness and >openness, an invitation for other energies to work within us over sleep time. > >My personal desire is to feel the bigness and openness more often. Pause. Ask >a challenging question. Belong to humanity. I'm confident that when we get to >this kind of open space, all things are possible. > >Tenneson > > > > > >> Hi-- > >What a wonderful conversation from such a wonderful bunch of people! And >have you noticed that many of these have been voices we do not hear here >often?--many of you hold space for the list! Thank you. > >Could any of you be persuaded to go into a little more detail, tell a >story, perhaps, to help me see how to do a living open space? What was your >day like today? Was there a time when you said, "Oh, that's what it means >to *live* this stuff? > > :-Doug. > Who's making a difference? > >* >* >========================================================== >[email protected] >------------------------------ >To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, >view the archives of [email protected]: >http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > >To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: >http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > >< > > > >Tenneson Woolf >801 376 2213 > >"Stories are medicine. They have such power; >they do not require that we do, be, act anything - >We need only listen." >Clarissa Pinkola Estes > >* >* >========================================================== >[email protected] >------------------------------ >To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, >view the archives of [email protected]: >http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > >To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: >http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eG i.G. Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany ++49-30-772 8000 www.boscop.de www.michaelmpannwitz.de Check out the new Open Space World Map now with 152 Open Space Workers in 37 countries www.openspaceworldmap.org * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
