Dear Skye,
I wonder whether OST as such can help us experience harmony, wholeness.
Form experience with OST I know that it is an effective tool for
expanding time and space for the force of selforganisation to do its thing.
It might be/appears/feels that OST is not out to control anything (in
contrast to many control-mechanisms I frequently experience). Controlled
processes and procedures reduce time and space for the unfolding of the
force of selforganisation.
Now, I wonder whether the force of selforgniation is after harmony,
wholeness.
I suspect that there are many concepts of harmony and wholeness
depending on our religious, historical, biographical, cultural,
political... etc. background or matrix (having spelled out 5 variabels I
see that this is in an order of very high complexity and more variabels
abound).
Life could also be synonymous with force of selforganisation. This might
come to me because I know that if the force of selforganistion gets
close to zero its in a way similar to -273,15 Degree centigrade (0
degree Kelvin)... nothing moves anymore.
Ineffable is the experience of whatever it is that happens when the
force of selforganisation is active. I sometimes have seen a bluish hue
during an ost event. It is however, not a "nice" experience nor an
experience describable with our limited linguistic repertoir...
ineffable! The closest I have gotten it squared for me is "awesome"...
well, even that is inadequate.
Yes, I do love the feeling of the awesome-part-in-me.
It impulses me with supporting OST being employed over and over again
and when I see it happen, I have a smile in me.
Just got interrupted by a phone call from our midwife daughter who told
me of her highlight today facilitating a birth. Its ineffable. She also
studies midwifery after many years of practice. She reports that in her
"science" the process of giving birth is called "Selbsttätigkeit des
Leibes" (close to self-activity or self-organisation). This concept is
outside of the kind of "science" as we usually might conceive science
(segregating, linear, evidence based,....). So it is in he realm of
philosophy.
Cheers from a sundrenched afternoon in Berlin where I met tired
schoolkids on the bus moaning over the first day of school after the two
week fall vacation... out of a phase with much selforganisation back
into a phase with less selforganisation...
mmp
Am 21.10.2019 um 13:43 schrieb Skye Hirst via OSList:
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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