THank you Suzanne for sharing this experience whith us!!! Adriana 2017-12-11 5:40 GMT-06:00 Agustin Jimenez via OSList < [email protected]>:
> Suzanne, > > Thanks a lot for this wonderful story!! > > Agustín > > Enviado desde mi iPhone > > El 9/12/2017, a la(s) 4:33 a. m., Thomas Perret via OSList < > [email protected]> escribió: > > Awesome story, thanks Suzanne > > ___ > > All is possible together > > On 8 Dec 2017, at 19.58, Suzanne Daigle via OSList < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you Christie for your beautiful note and for leading us to Ashley's > interview. No matter how familiar is the message or how often I hear it, I > feel its comfort, its resonant invitation and all the hope, joy, grief and > "awe" that goes with it. > > In your note you said: > > "*Caring creates time, meaningful time.*" > I have been thinking & talking with colleagues a lot lately about the > "care" part of healthcare & healthcare education, and about how time and > attention are necessary elements of care...and truly, allowing for > "meaningful time" can be powerful elemental medicine. > > As I read this, I was triggered by the "caring that can happen at work" - > a caring connected to a spirit of community where passion and > responsibility are at play. I experienced both yesterday. > > It was related to my work with UPA (United Packaging Association) > <https://unitedpackagingassociates.com> - a new packaging networking > association that got ignited from an Open Space gathering in 2016. UPA > members and guests celebrated the holiday season last evening and visited a > wonderful flavoring company called Monin, with its family roots in Bourges, > France. Their self-organizing ways of managing the company hooked my heart > and I had great difficulty containing my enthusiasm and holding back my > questions, wishing to remember and absorb every miracle moment of my time > with them. There were so many stories, so many little things that they are > doing - everyone totally invested in the work of the business, passionate, > having a place and having a voice. It is with such pride that they shared > their progress, their mistakes, their set-backs and their leaps forward > with clients, doing more for them and with them than anyone could imagine. > > On the walls throughout their facility were large black and white, framed > professional photographs of every single employee, each capturing the > essence and spirit of the person - sometimes a smile, sometimes a special > spark in the eye or a whimsical expression. > > Their dedication, the excellence of what they do, their commitment, their > humility and the global place they have earned as leaders in the > marketplace attest to their culture, success and future prospects. > > Little wonder that they say working for Monin > <https://www.monin.com/us/about-us/history/> is to be part of a family. > The spirit of family extends beyond to everyone connected to them including > community and us at UPA last evening. > > I could not even begin to describe all those things that I noticed as we > toured - people on the job in their every day life doing what they do, > taking charge and in charge, with a pride of competency and collegiality > that spoke of decision-making by those closest to the work at hand. The > important measures of the business were there on the wall for everyone to > see, written not by management but again by people closest to the work. I > could go on and on about those items of continuous improvement, their > breakthroughs, technical expertise, commitment to excellence and the many > ideas from people across the company that adorned the bulletin boards in > celebration of the results from each of those initiatives. There were no > labels attached to what they do: lean, six sigma, self-management or indeed > open space. They were just doing the work. > > One story in particular struck me deeply. Partnering with a placement > agency, they hired a young man who was autistic on a trial basis to do a > task that was somewhat repetitive and crucially important to the overall > manufacturing process of this particular product. Andrew, now a regular > employee, excelled at this task!! Others had struggled with the routine of > it, trying to avoid being assigned there. Today not only has the entire > organization learned deeply about right fit, for right job (applies to > everyone not just Andrew) but now teammates regularly come by to work side > by side with him on other projects to keep him company. Outside the door > of the small office where Andrew works on the manufacturing floor is a > plaque with his name on it and the words "Pump Assembly". No one else in > the company has a plaque with their name on it. > > As joyous and exuberant as I felt being there, I could not help but also > feel sadness, and even grief, knowing that others who were also on the > tour, as touched as they were by what they saw, could not imagine a culture > like Monin's within their own companies. Just as someone cannot imagine the > passion and results that happen in Open Space compared to the closed and > controlling ways that we have of doing strategy and organizing work. All it > takes it to invite and open a bit of space. > > I believe that being in Awe of the Sacred is that coming home to those > little things in life that we notice, that give us hope and make our hearts > sing. Yesterday, Monin made my heart sing. Here a short write-up that I > wrote now featured on our UPA website. https://unitedpackagi > ngassociates.com/upa-4-you/ > <https://unitedpackagingassociates.com/upa-4-you/> > > > Suzanne > > > > Suzanne Daigle > Open Space Facilitator > NuFocus Strategic Group > > FL 941-359-8877 > Cell: 203-722-2009 > www.nufocusgroupusa.com > [email protected] > Twitter @Daiglesuz > > > On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 1:19 AM, Christy Lee-Engel via OSList < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Dear HO, >> >> Warm birthday wishes and blessings for ongoing joy and vitality, and I >> hope you had a stellar birth day! >> >> Thank You Very Much for all the gifts of your birth, and now these latest >> musings "In Awe of the Sacred." >> I am especially touched by your sentence "*Caring creates time, >> meaningful time.*" >> I have been thinking & talking with colleagues a lot lately about the >> "care" part of healthcare & healthcare education, and about how time and >> attention are necessary elements of care...and truly, allowing for >> "meaningful time" can be powerful elemental medicine. >> >> Ashley Cooper and I were just chatting last week about you, and the >> profound gift that Open Space has been for each of us (*I had just >> rediscovered a great interview she did with you in 2014 - transcribed here: >> http://tyhallock.blogspot.com/2014/02/harrison-owen-interview-inviting-flow.html >> <http://tyhallock.blogspot.com/2014/02/harrison-owen-interview-inviting-flow.html>* >> ). We agreed that each of us felt like we were struck by lightening (in a >> good way!) when we first encountered the practice / values / experience of >> Open Space. >> Or another way to describe it would be of stumbling unexpectedly into a >> deep sense of being at home. Which to me is another one of the abundant >> names of god. >> >> I also very much appreciate your framing of Open Space as "*not a >> method, procedure or process. It is pure invitation, and there is nothing >> there. It is all question with not an answer in sight.*" Open Space and >> zen koan meditation, which I am a fan of, have lots in common as I'm sure >> you know - both ways of "sitting the question >> , >> " >> both >> deeply playful, seriously hilarious, liberatory in a right here right now >> way, so full of life and also not afraid of death. Like yerself, dear >> Harrison. >> The latest koan that my teacher-friend John gave a group of us recently: >> "*There is nothing I dislike.*" >> After sitting with it for a while, it did Open up into a sacred Space of >> 'this, here, is the right place; right now is the right time; this life is >> my right life.' >> >> love and thanks from VERY dark and drippy Seattle (where it is still Dec >> 2 for a little while longer) >> Christy >> >> >> 2611 NE 125th St, Ste 240 <http://www.corechiropracticseattle.com> >> Seattle, WA 98125 >> Clinic: 206.708.7172 <(206)%20708-7172> >> Cell: 206.399.0868 <(206)%20399-0868> >> >> *"Every moment of freedom is amplified when we're together." - John >> Tarrant, Roshi <https://www.pacificzen.org/teachers/john-tarrant/>* >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 4:36 AM, Harrison Owen via OSList < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I have been asked on occasions (by myself and others) what did I do – >>> exactly. Truthfully I’ve never really had a good answer, but I’ve been >>> trying. The latest effort may be viewed at >>> http://openspaceworld.com/AweOfSacred_HarrisonOwen.pdf Please share if >>> you care. >>> >>> >>> >>> Harrison >>> >>> >>> >>> Winter Address >>> >>> 7808 River Falls Dr. >>> >>> Potomac, MD 20854 >>> >>> 301-365-2093 <(301)%20365-2093> >>> >>> >>> >>> Summer Address >>> >>> 189 Beaucauire Ave >>> >>> Camden, ME 04843 >>> >>> 207 763-3261 <(207)%20763-3261> >>> >>> >>> >>> Websites >>> >>> www.openspaceworld.com >>> >>> www.ho-image.com >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >> Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/os >> [email protected] >> > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/ > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/ > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/ > [email protected] > -- Dra. 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