Ana--
You have made a profound observation when you said "there’s always a
soul that tells a beautiful deep and unexpected story about it."
The story that your participant told is beautiful, as well. Thank you
for sharing it.
And welcome to the list and the Work!
:- Doug.
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 15:59 -0700, ana castanheira wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> It’s probably the first time writing to you.
>
> During the last one year and a half I’ve been following your
> conversations, your perspectives, your insights.
>
> I believe I’ve been learning from all of you.
>
> I’ve been practicing OST in Portugal, mostly in Portuguese language
> but with a few limitations; after all I’m working alone with an
> unknown method to most of people.
>
> Portugal seemed to me at first sight a difficult country to implement
> this method. Although the culture is very open, the business companies
> and organizations in general still tend to use traditional methods for
> meetings or for solving problems.
>
> Nevertheless the few experiences I had, people did told me in the end,
> that they really enjoyed having the freedom and the space open for
> creativity.
>
> The first steps are always the harder to take.
>
> And that leads me to last 7 to 9 of September in Porto where I had
> the pleasure of being invited by Ted Ernst to co-facilitate Wikisym –
> the 4th international event around wikis you can see more in
> http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/index.php/OpenSpace
>
> This was certainly the event that made me realize how much I want to
> continue to do Open Space. It was a such a fulfilling experience.
>
> I noticed something very curious whatever is taken as a talking stick,
> there’s always a soul that tells a beautiful deep and unexpected story
> about it.
>
> On this event I happen to choose a natural stick coming from a
> beautiful plant growing outside university gardens.
>
> From something completely out of the technological world an amazing
> story was told: a plant once seeded on a dry vast corner of the world
> in spite of severe climate conditions, was so beautiful that would
> always be able to grow and for that called the joy of the children’s
> flower.
>
> I cannot thank Ted enough for all the amazing things I’ve learned
> about me as a facilitator. After all I also can facilitate OST’s in
> Portugal don’t matter the conditions.
>
> Peace.
>
> Ana
>
>
>
>
>
> "If you want to go faster, go alone. If you want to go further, go
> together."
> African proverb
>
>
>
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