Dear Sky,
Rock On! Thanks so very much for sharing your thoughtful kind insights.
For Co-Creating Harmonies,
Tony Budak
On 10/21/2019 7:43 AM, Skye Hirst via OSList wrote:
How does Open Space Technology help us experience harmony,
wholeness?This may well be the most ineffable idea in today’s busy
world.Life seems to present moments of such harmoniousness and we may
notice them when they happen and then forget them.They don’t get
highlighted as something possible on any dependable scale, so they get
passed over, dismissed as a “nice” experience but most likely we don’t
share them.However, the artists among us will capture them through
their medium. We love the feelings this work gives us, this reminder
of those numinous realities.
What happens in OST?What are those realities we experience more often
than not while participating in a concentrated time around an
invitation question, an urgency, a group of people sitting in circle,
creating an agenda and sitting with questions, getting to deeper ones?
I believe OST is micro of a macro reality that life’s organism ways
provide for us in every moment.“Come to the circle, tell us your tale,
you are not the only one who is hurting.”This phrase from a song
written in the 80s by a friend, speaks of the power of OST.There is
something so powerful about being reminded, you get to choose how and
where and when you give your attention.It has been called an antidote
to the world of hierarchical dominating meetings, work life and
organizationally dead structures.
So I say, I want to capture the ineffable, but how silly that is.And
yet, we can point to shared experience, to knowledge that goes beyond
words, to celebrate this most amazing, awe-generating process abiding
in living structures, living “becoming” events that are
/alivenmaking/.Let’s listen for the harmonies, for the moments of felt
sensing our wholeness, our unity, and our differences at the same
time.This is a “both and world,” not an “either/or” one.It takes work
only in that we remember what we can easily forget with distractions
and constant “busy-ness.”Notice when those moments of peacefulness
enter into the “field” when we take a long breath and let it out
fully, sitting with one another without needing to fix or change
ourselves, or the other. What are your experiences of “fulfillment” of
listening in to deep knowledge of being alive?
One OST participant spoke of it as something one cannot talk about,
but to experience it is to have lived, feeling aliveness and we want
it more and more. Then we want others to have the experience so we try
to talk about it.I say, “Come to the Circle, tell us your tale, you
are not the only one who is hurting.”
The storyteller tells his tales and we remember those times his
stories happened in our lives, or we make sense of a story we have not
understood about our tale. Then we begin again with a new story.Keep
coming to the circle, telling us your tales, one and all.
Blessings to all this week for great WOSONOS in DC.
Song */Healing Circle/* is by Julia Hickory 1984, Album Joyful Noise
and Friends */Birdsong Morning/*
*Healing Circle*
Come to the Circle
Listen to our tales
You will find you’re not the only one who’s hurting
And the light may shine in
This is where we begin
The magic of our healing
Alone in your room, you think you’re the only one
And you’re wondering if your might be crazy
So you lock all the pain and the shame deep inside
And your skies are always dark and hazy
But if you Come to the Circle
Tell us your tales
The light will shine in,
This is where we begin
The magic work of our healing.
You are not unimportant, we need all the words
And the melodies to harmonize
The darker the shadows, the brighter the sun
And your tears are the stars in our eyes.
So won’t you Come to the Circle
Tell us your tales
And the light will shine in
This is where we begin
The magic work of our healing
--
*Skye HIrst, PhD*
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of existence."/***
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