HI Raffi, Almost done my piece - hope to send it tomorrow.
Our daughter Aine also wants to submit something. Hope that is ok. Thanks for doing this. Caitlin. On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Raffi Aftandelian <ra...@bk.ru> wrote: > Dear friends and colleagues, > > Two months ago I posted an invitation to the OSlist regarding an e-book > project, Living Peace: the open space of our lives, an opportunity for all > of us who work with OST to share how we live in Open Space. > > I am posting the invitation to participate in this initiative below as a > reminder. > > OST facilitators from Russia, Turkey, Israel, Germany, Switzerland, US, > and > Canada, to name a few countries, have said they will contribute. And some > pieces have already come in. And I am absolutely delighted that OS'ers > both > new to the practice and those who were around from the very beginning (the > Big Bang of 1985?) have contributed or intend to contribute. > > I am extending the deadline to March 1st. > > To give a feeling for the style in which this book will be illustrated, > you > might want to visit > > http://picasaweb.google.ru/dyomka/AtYkNH?authkey=h0K3uQIse9U > > Vera "Dyomka" Vakulenko, a Moscow friend of Open Space will be doing the > illustrating. > > enjoying the recent threads, > warmly, > raffi > > "I don't mind dying. It's just that I don't want to be around when it > happens." > --Woody Allen > > "I don't mind living. It's just that I don't want to be around when it > happens." > --overheard from a butterfly conversation between Op N. Heart and Woolly > Adden > > ****************************************************** > Living Peace: the open space of our lives > An invitation > > > November 18,2007 > > > > We are writing you to invite your contribution for an e-book, tentatively > entitled Living Peace: the open space of our lives. OST facilitators from > around the world, experienced and people new to the practice, are being > contacted for this project. > > Harrison's last book was The Practice of Peace. It was a thoughtful, > playful, compelling, and engaging invitation to consider that the everyday > practice of Open Space in organizations is the practice of peace. If that > is > so, then perhaps, taken together, those who work with OST have something > to > offer the world about living peace on a day-to-day basis? > > > > There have been many conversations about the personal practice of open > space, but to our knowledge this has not been captured as a book. Chris > Corrigan and Michael Herman have elaborated an invaluable perspective on > that practice. And I credit them, Wendy Farmer-O'Neil, Birgitt Williams, > and > Harrison Owen as inspiration for this book. > > This book aims to deepen the conversation about the personal practice of > Open Space. > > For the book, we'd like to invite you to answer one question: > > "What is your practice of Open Space?" > > This is an inquiry into how each of us bring open space into our lives, > how > we live Open Space. > > In addition, you are invited to submit resources for a resource section at > end of the book on practicing Open Space in life. We welcome any materials > you see as valuable in deepening the personal practice of Open Space. > > A maximum length of two pages for each contribution is suggested, and this > is more of a guideline than a hard and fast rule. > > We'd like to ensure a broad representation of voices in the book, both in > terms of perspective, experience, and geography. This invitation will also > be posted to English-language OSlist and other OSlists around the world. > > If you have any particular suggestions of people who should be contacted > to > participate in this initiative, let me know! > > If you think you will be able to make a contribution, please email Raffi > at > ra...@bk.ru (or raffi_1...@yahoo.com). We'd like to receive submissions by > February 1, 2008. > > Your piece can be anything that can be presented on a printed page, a > story, > an essay, a parable, a word, a sentence, a picture, a diagram, anything > that > can convey on paper what you understand your practice of Open Space to be. > > If you'd prefer to share your practice of peace in a telephone > conversation > that can be later transcribed into text, we'd be more than happy to do so. > > The book will be made available for free online. Perhaps at a later point, > it might be available for sale in print form, in which case a significant > (50% at least) of proceedings will go to support the spread of OST around > the world. > > Vera "Dyomka" Vakulenko, a Moscow artist and community activist who > designed > the Open Space on Open Space XIV logo and brought much spirit to that > conference will be illustrating this book. > > We intend to publish the book in both English and Russian. If you can > circulate this invitation in other languages, it'd much be appreciated. > > Your thoughts, questions suggestions and collaboration in this project are > welcome! > > If you can submit something for this book, please let us know by email! > > Respectfully and in appreciation, > Raffi Aftandelian > Vera "Dyomka" Vakulenko > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > -- May the beauty we love be what we do. 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