Hi OSniks! I just wanted to write and share a "proud". Thanks to mmp for nudging me on that score.
My Russian friend and colleague, Ludmila Ivanova (who was trained in OST thru the Genuine Contact program last year) and I conducted our first public OST meeting today in Moscow. Before my experience had been doing it within an organization. So, in that sense it was a little scary. A one day workshop entitled "Making money doing the work you love." And it went very well! I had the best time ever in OS. Most hilarious moment: two English-speakers (we had intended this to be a bilingual event, marketing also to expats) -- the only foreign participants in this gathering of about 25 people-- stomp out and demand their money back a little after I talk about the law of two feet. Talk about be prepared to be surprised. Apparently, they had not read the invitation carefully and expected something entirely different! Tastiest moment: lunch time. People cooed about Ludmila's salad and the variety of goodies available. Most satisfying moment for me personally: the opening. I have struggled with the opening for a while and have realized more and more how correctly (not from the heart) I do it. After listening to how Harrison does it on a CD (Harrison you have such a great voice; you worked in radio I bet in a previous lifetime), I finally got a much better idea of how to make it from my center and have fun with it. And it flowed, baby! Learnings: up the wazoo. I can see a lot of my mistakes. And I am excited about addressing them in the future. And these mistakes had more to do with the quality of my being as a facilitator. Why was it fun: It just flowed. And we organized it very well. And I just love our posters! And people seemed to really enjoy themselves and got a lot our. Happy to share fotos from the gathering, including (if I have Ludmila's ok) one where Ludmila is conducting the closing circle. This was her first time doing OST. I loved how she did it, simple, from the heart, with passion and with strength and center. Some of the topics: "I am fine where I am; I have enough money" "A psychologist's career: how to earn the amount you want?" "Personal presentation to potential clients" "What do we need money for" "What is "the work you love" and how would you recognize it?" "What am I willing to put up with for the sake of money" "Starting a private practice" One of the things I realized is just how complicated co-facilitation of an OST meeting is. What is good *co*-facilitation of an OST? What is good team work after the opening? What does it mean to build a resonant energy field with the participants as a two person team? Chewing on my licorice stick on this one... On a side note, thanks Harrison for starting the talking stick on "What we have learned." I will begin pondering that. One of my questions is what does it say about us as a community that nothing about OST was in JABS. Really enjoyed the elevator speech thread. Juicy. Or are we a community? I know this might be an old/tired OS listserv question. Might behoove me to check the listserv archives on that score to see where that convo ended. Yes, Harrison, I've been lurking lately, haven't had the time to read everything as carefully... People keep on expecting that since it's springtime that it'll warm up. Well it ain't so, it keeps snowing, the snow piled so high that participants had troubled finding the door to our building! Warmly, Raffi -- Raffi mailto:[email protected] * * ========================================================== [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
