Hi Lisa
Sending lots of love from NYC
Sad to not be there and very excited about our invitation for 2012 to
England!I hope it works out. "But whatever happens will be.."
It was strange not to be in Berlin after we had such an extraordinary
time there for the IETM open space we held there just a few weeks ago.
Wishing you all the best.
Phelim
Sent from my iPhone
On May 15, 2010, at 1:19 AM, Lisa Heft <lisah...@openingspace.net>
wrote:
Dear colleagues -
It is Saturday morning in Berlin and I look forward to a lovely
breakfast with Gail West (Taiwan), Brendan McKeague (Australia) and
Matilda Leyser (England), then off to the WOSonOS for the final day
of the event. I just wanted to share with you all that I so enjoyed
a group I hosted yesterday at the WOSonOS (It will not be in the
Book of Proceedings because we decided not to stress out about the
Friday deadline for handing notes in).
I held up a blank piece of paper as my topic sign, selected a time
and space and placed the sign on the Agenda Wall.
People gathered and sat in companionable silence in a circle.
Then I wrote some thoughts on cards such as:
___
Choices
Sit in silence
Communicate in silence
Experience an activity that can be done to help people reflect in
silence *before* discussion
___
Other cards said:
Documentation?
Someone to note the time?
(or something like that)
___
In silence, we 'discussed' and agreed upon the agenda (the time card
was tossed away into the air, the documentation was my camera)
We agreed to move from the sit-in-silence to the 'communicate in
silence' portion of our session.
Much mutual appreciation, twinkling eyes and laughter, exploring
little movements together, a bit of running around for some of our
members, some putting of things on heads, some sitting laps and a
high portion of silliness followed.
Then we shifted into the 'an activity that can be done to help
people reflect in silence before discussion' portion of our agenda.
I guided folks (in silence, which is not usually how I explain the
guidelines) a reflective activity I have designed - and some of you
have helped me field test this activity in past WOSonOS and OSonOSs
- which invites participants to answer four questions by drawing
their responses (no text allowed). The process is called 'Graphic
Window'. After reflection and drawing in response to four
questions, we spoke again, going around the circle and sharing what
each person drew and what they reflected upon as they heard each of
the four questions.
___
It was all so lovely and nutritious - especially to have silence in
the midst of a high-talk environment such as an Open Space.
I bow (silently) with (silent) thanks to my fellow explorers,
Lisa
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