Thanks very much Joelle. Your feedback is so empathic and kindly that takes me to one more step in all this issue.
I also dont want to talk the clients into agreeing to something they do not really want to support. Right now Im discovering that all this thing with my persistence, isnt more that the balance that I made between the originals sentences: What do I want more making money facilitating os-events" or "making a living facilitating os-events"? That is a dicotomic dimension that sometimes is dramatically present in my independent consultant stuff. My heart definitively wants "making a living facilitating os-events". But At this point it makes me too much sense the definition that Michael Herman give us about Open Space in his wonderful Inviting Organization: "About the same time I discovered Open Space Technology, I came to understand that I was most productive, most effective and most happy on those projects where clients had called to invite me into their work, rather than because I had called them and sold a project. Seeing this, I resolved to make invitation the central focus of my personal and professional practice... ...Invitations raise the awareness, speak the truth, gather the resources needed to get real results. invitations communicate intention, even to those who won't or can't be present. invitations offer new language for describing the truth of what's happening. Invitations get people moving in the same direction, at the same time -- because those people WANT to move that way. In this way, invitations turn managers into leaders, and invitees into managers. If we see Open Space Tech as one way to practice the leadership art of invitation, is it any wonder that this technique has produced phenomenal results all over the world? When all else fails, it seems clear that everyone still works better and happier when they are invited into their work" (Opening Invitation in Organization by Michael Herman at http://www.globalchicago.net/ost/invitingorg/05intro.html ). For me this is an enlightenment experiential synthesis that is rounding my head and heart since a couple of weeks ago when first I read it. Thanks so much Michael for turning on this potent light on my road. But it isnt easy for me, and all at this moment is in process and movement. Seems like a battle between my ego and my heart. I dont know exactly how to invite more and sell less. All this stuff makes me feel afraid of the changes that I intuitive perceive will carried for my life and my being. But at the same time, Im enjoying so much this adventure plenty of creativity and liberty wind. Thanks you all on this list, JL Walker Santiago de Chile * * ========================================================== [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
