Good day, Everyone. All within one hour this morning, I had the great pleasure of speaking in groups of 2 and 3 with people from Norway, German, Portugal, and Australia. Waking up at 5:50am my time knocked me out of my regular routine and gave me space to be present.
After the audio and video chats, I was browsing some links that people shared about their work during this morning's sessions. Then I started searching through the OS List archives to find people I spoke with. The email below jumped out at me, especially the video highlighted in yellow at the bottom. Having met Alan Stewart yesterday, reading that email below was quite a different experience for me than it was when he sent it a few months ago. The difference this time is that I could actually hear him reading this email to me in his warm and inviting tone, now that we had a chance to have a conversation I've been on this list for about 6 years and have never attended a WOSonOS. Hearing Alan mention the Marysville WOS2002 during a session yesterday and the fondness with which he described it made me very curious to learn more. The video he shared in yellow (below) easily communicates how special that event was for all who attended. The OS community has been rolling with tremendous momentum for 20+ years before I started subscribing to the list in '09. I always felt that I missed the party, since so much has happened before I got here, but having been on Tricia's OS Hotline events on Tuesdays over the past few months and having participated in these online VOSonOS sessions over the past two days, I get a sense of how active this community is right now–all the great work and all the edges of the OS folks are currently exploring. Marysville was overcome by a devastating fire in 2009, seven years after the video below. It's a reminder to me that the work of opening space is both temporary and urgent. I look forward to the remaining two days of VOSonOS and I also look forward to reading this list with a more personal connection, now that I've been able to meet and learn from many of you over the past two days. Have a great weekend, wherever you are. Lucas Cioffi Founder, QiqoChat Charlottesville, VA Mobile: 917-528-1831 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alan Stewart via OSList <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:50 PM Subject: [OSList] This Was My Town [[Marysville] To: World wide Open Space Technology email list < [email protected]> G'day fellow participants at WOS2002 and All I 'happened' on this song <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0LpKT_-Kmw> recently through hearing Greg Champion, a well known singer and song writer <http://gregchampion.com.au/music/> in Australia, on our local radio in Adelaide. For it captures the grief experienced when most of the lovely little town of Marysville (near Melbourne) in which WOS2002 was held was destroyed in a huge bushfire in 2009. After playing the song several times it came over to me as a beautifully crafted and poignant reminder of the wondrous time which was had by those who were fortunate and privileged to participate in this particular international get together of OST practitioners. And of how ephemeral life can be. The venue for our gathering, the majestic largely wooden construction Marylands Hotel - in the heart of Marysville - suited our purposes beautifully, not least as we all housed under one roof. One of my favourite memories was going on a night walk in the nearby forest. There was nothing left of Marylands after the 2009 fire. A sense of this place, its setting, and the process of the WOS event can be seen in this exquisite little video <http://openspaceworld.ning.com/video/wosonosinoz-2002> made by David Smith. Also featured in the video is the facilitator of the event, Fr Brian Bainbridge. Brian, as many would recall fondly, was a staunch promoter of OST and attended every WOS up until WOS2009 held in Taipei in Taiwan. Sadly he died shortly after this. Please pass this on if you wish to others who you consider may appreciate seeing and hearing it. Looking forward. Go well Alan Alan Stewart, PhD www.multimindsolutions.com Conversare.net <http://conversare.net> Adelaide ‘If there’s dancing count me in.’
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