I believe we are at a system chnaging crossroads of globalsiation over the next year unlike any other - if there are other alumni of open space who agree with this unprecedented opportunity -love to know where we can collaborate in opening space

hwat once in a generation transformation opportunities can we ma

beyond wall street

beyond carbon

beyond a white house and washington led by big business

the need to create jobs, and celebrate community building

uniting world's people around a potential return to millennium goals

how can open space contribute to collaborations between people, an end of poverty ... http://futurecapitalism.ning.com/forum/topics/2243665:Topic:183

mythos and the larger sangha

Hi all!
Might our Sangha have gone into an extended silent retreat and no one bothered to tell me? Or are people sitting in the circle...asleep?

In any case, I have some new questions to share inspired by a book circle discussion of Harrison's Spirit: Transformation and Development in Organizations."

Harrison writes that his definition of theory is "a likely story". He also writes that "myth is neither true nor false, but rather *behind* truth - as the body of material through which a culture's values, purpose, and direction come to expression. Myth is not just "any old story," it is *the* story, which gives shape and focus to Spirit, and makes everything make sense. Myth, in short is the "eyeglasses" through which a given people perceive and interpret their world. It is
the vantage point from which, or by which the *true" is judged to be true...

"But myth does more. On a deeper level, myth communicates the moving quality of the human Spirit as it seeks to become whatever it was supposed to be...

"It is common practice to speak of myth and ritual as if they were two separate things, but that is not so, for ritual is simply putting the words of myth into form, motion, and usic. Myth and ritual are two sides of the same thing, which I will call *mythos*.

"Finally, myth doesn't just commuicate *about* Spirit in its quest, but in some way manifests that Spirit in experiential terms; you can feel it." (pp.8-9, "Spirit...")

Harrison continues later in saying that his way of eliciting the story(-ies) in an organization is to ask the question:

"What are things like around here?"

This has me asking two questions--

1. What is the mythos of the international community/organization of Open Space Technology facilitators?

2. What is the mythos of the international annual Open Space on Open Space?

When I think of these answering these questions, I am reminded of what some say when holding a storytelling circle:

that the circle is an invitation to share any story, a mad, glad, sad, silly, irreverent, or even humorous story.

spaceholding

It has been quiet here, an echo perhaps of the discussion on the OS list about the "silent presence" and its connection with spaceholding.

This brings me to a question I have been holding space for some time:

What life experience led to a breakthrough in your understanding of spaceholding?

As you sit pondering this question, I wonder who else is sitting in this question circle besides me?

Looking forward to your responses!
raffi

Any views on which is the largest serial open space in the world? World Social Forum is one Nomination. Others welcome

Center

Wendy,

Center is fundamentally about synkairosity, the term you proposed a few weeks back on the OSlist.

I will elaborate soon on this on the OSlist even though we have been calling and living synkairosically since before creation.

But the short version:

- synkairosity (term proposed by Dr. Wendy Farmer-O'Neil) is a fundamental "implicit intention" for all energy forms--

syn-- exchange, conversation, exchange, creation
k- Kosmos- (Ken Wilber, Brief History of Everything)- made up of physiosphere, biosphere, noosphere, theosphere

ai- appreciative inquiry

r- remembering (as the form of right doing in our current iteration called "deep emergence"

os-...

kairos- time + space (as opposed to linear time-- "chronos"; we need both)- all time, no time, timelessness co-existing, granularized potential of the expanding Now.

we are not just working with emergence (1985-2004) or even deep emergence (2004-...) but since all time and no time exist all the time we are working with all six betweens (Tibetan book of living and dying)-- and that's the invitation for all energy.

An essence map of the synkairosic perspective on how energy forms "be"--

a sphere-- outer shell the affimatively inquisitive lens
next shell- open space
core-- the Nothing' within the Nothing (it's a deeper open space that's not even about creation)-- "lenselessness"



My question--

What is the question that is synkairosically waiting to be remembered next?

Returning to love

Ahhh. I have just been reading Thich Nhat Hahn's, Taming the Tiger. He has so many ideas for returning to love and compassion and letting go of anger. I'm not him--although i reserve the right to harbour aspirations.

So, what has helped me to return to Love when my heart is full of anger?

Breathing.

Getting some space.

Fully experiencing the pain of holding on to the anger. This can be a real incentive to let it go--when you can actually feel how it is killing you.

Reconnecting to love of the other. Sometimes i get the gift of the sensation of how much i love the person i am feeling anger towards. This gift helps me to completely change my perspective and then the anger seems so small and silly it's easy to let it go.

Invoking courage. I blogged about this one here. Courage opens the heart. Sometimes you just have to connect to your courage and pass through the eye of the storm.

Sitting still in nature. Again, this seems to be about re-centering and grounding--when i see the beauty, simplicity and elegance of nature, i can't hold on to the anger. My heart opens.

Enlisting the help of others. ( I am feeling angry. I am suffering. I need your help.)

And the biggie...the really tough one...the essential practice...self-forgiveness. When i find i have persistent anger, it is almost always rooted in self-anger, harshness, or self-hatred for something i have done, said, thought, or omitted. I can't let go of my feelings of anger towards others until i have dealt with the roots of the anger towards myself. I find it far more difficult to forgive myself than anyone else. And so i have begun practicing sending love to myself lately as a preventative measure.

Thanks for this question, Raffi. I have appreciated the opportunity to think about it some more. It occurs to me that simply asking this question is a profound step on the path to achieving it. The simple awareness that it is desirable and possible to reconnect the heart to love and not dwell in anger is a powerful tool in itself.

And so...the next question...

What does center mean to you?

dropping ripe into open space

“We are all ripening in our own way, at our own pace. Ripening is going on all around us, naturally, ineluctably. Eventually we let go and drop -- pure, beautiful, ripe, juicy -- into open space. Existence is fully awake already, just waiting for us to drop into emptiness.”

from Meredith of Graceful Presence

Breaking Views from ClubofLondon current #1 in collaboration knowledge city bookmarks (votes over 40 million)

This week saw world water day come and go with less than a ripple. Did Londoners know how they could have contributed more news on this around the world? no matter

Next week is arguably the biggest in the calendar for gifts to the world Londoners as number 1 collaboration knowledge city can start up, and make the next 6 years marathon of make poverty history connect all around the world

With Al Gore visiting the twin cities of London and Oxford, we cannot imagine a better time to Launch the Social Entrepreneur Olympics. The game is to have got 30 gravity pursuits of social entrepreneur world champions into the public consciousness by 2012 as much as the top 30 sports.

All we need is love and courage to cheerlead cross-cultural creativity's waves:

The Livingstone has got us off to a great start; he has declared there will be no sporting Olympics in London in 2012 unless they are carbon free - turn up the heat on every politician since only photosynthesis innovations can produce clean energy of that sustainability magnitude. Make sure all those who host Al Gore events debrief him as the clock to 2012 counts down

The lessons to be learnt from Make Poverty History from pop stars down can be an epiphany if University of Stars and the BBC turn their minds to the greater transparencies (eg end all country corruptions) needed if Make Poverty History is to be a reality network not just an image-making one

So that's 28 more gravity pursuits we need to celebrate around social entrepreneurs with as much gusto as the 20th Century hailed sporting stars

We are reminded of one Harrison Owen story I should tell because open spacing education is a social entrepreneur pursuit every family can stand up for whereas we cannot all help on the ground with projects in Africa or in the roofs that algae use to convert the sunshine into cleansing energy banks.

He was studying to be a priest around the Washington Dc area. It was a time when Martin Luther King was having a dream. Harrison can't recall quite how it happened but he was standing in a civil rights field in a crowd of African Americans - one tall lanky white man. The police were beginning to charge on the crowd and Harrison was feeling quite scared. That is until a 7 year old black girl came up to him - and said Mister will you hold my hand

Since that day, Harrison gave up the priesthood to the chagrin of most of his family. And is one of the handfuls of people who most interconnects conflict resolution facilitators around the world. Their networks criss-cross all religions that believe in golden rules of reciprocity such as so unto another what you want done unto you. They also connect mathematically - if Einstein is correct here at http://clubofdc.blogspot.com - to Gandhi as the greatest inventor of peaceful social entrepreneurial revolution that 144 years of The Economist's coverage of this most productive of all professions.

If some of this post makes sense to you, why not re-edit the parts you like and send it to the board of Governors of the BBC, and should you wish Tony Blair or another politician well with their legacy why not copy them in to. We the British people, not any of our political representatives own the BBC. We have invested way over 50 billion pounds in this corporation. On a personal note to all scots- may I ask whether you feel the inventor of television would feel proud of a television where every big debate is framed one dimensionally around short-term left and right rivals or whomever is looking fore a job with big business if the party does not turn out Trumps for their apprenticeship to network power.

It is high noon for the BBC with its 10 year licence determined by and for the people in the year of 2o06. Please could our world service be one of British Character we can feel both pride and humility in searching for. Please free your journalists for humanity to take a fearless lead in realising this open source script from 1984 , so that trust across peoples everywhere begins to flow through every documentary inquiry that has anything to do with world peace or nightly newscast on poverty's challenges through 2012 - and through these communications help the British to get to know 30 gravity pursuits of Social Entrepreneurs with as much joy and attention as the 30 sports it spend most public licence fees on. Hey when Brits helped to invent most of these sports we surely never intended they would take over from greater British realities of world service, through believing in CommonWealth principles and our Queen's higher order right to ask us as she did in her end of 2005 broadcast to unite in preventing globalisation from turning humanity on itself.

For the same of deeper democracy blossoming and connecting every coordinate on earth, you can also play a jigsaw mapping game aimed at sustaining 2 million global villages. Here's part of my family's tree which may open up some useful connections- what connections could your family tree or that of your peer networks open source. If you can make a "peer or family tree" picture why don't we play the mixed networking games of swap and snap. If we are going to turn around globalisation’s exponentials sustainably in time, we are all going to have to work with whatever grassroots community contexts up we can help each other navigate. No lead is too small as long as it is one you intend to gravitate transparently around as part of you lifelong learning mission. We need to help change children's education now so that the core human rights of freedom and happiness have a chance to breathe nature's clean waters, airs and energies everyone human beings sing her praises. Let's all turn up the courage through every family in the land and into wherever co-mentoring networks in internet space may take A B C D E F you