Thank you, Joelle for the story. Harrison, I have experienced OST working even when its wonders were demonstrated. It felt awkward to participate in it, but for those who'd never experienced (demo-)OST, it was inspiring.
Mikhail Pronin and I were invited to St. Petersburg in fall 2005 to see a colleague open space. He wanted to demonstrate the method's power. There was a theme- "Youth and Personal Development," or some such thing. But the opening spoke so much to demonstrating the power of OST it didn't feel right. *And* people loved it. Two of them later came to Moscow just for a four hour OST mentoring circle and went on to open space at home, in university for HR managers, for psychotherapists. ...continuing the list... 22. You say to the barista at the local coffeeshop, "Just a reminder that April 28th is..." and he interrupts you, "I know, International Poem in Your Pocket Day," and intends to participate in the day and looks forward to seeing it blogged. 23. When you order cocktails at a bar, you say, "Oh, I'll have 2 Harrisons...one for shock-anger-memories-acceptance-letting go, the other for open space and reframing,"...and the bartender knows what you're talking about. 24. When you give birth to a boy, you name him "Harrisy." 25. When you give birth to a girl, you name her "Spacella" 26. You name your second girl "Postita". 27. You name your second boy "Conversio" 28. You think the following knock-knock joke is hilarious and retell it to total strangers: "Knock knock" "Who's there?" "Comes." "Comes who?" "Whoever comes is the right people." ...in further exploration of the spacious potential of water closets for global transformation and the ongoing evolution of emergent co-intelligence, raffi [email protected], [email protected] skype: raffi[underscore][email protected] talesofatoy.blogspot.com * * ========================================================== [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
