wrythings

After Laure Dillon’s account of Hawaiian gatherings at the recent O-Net member initiated Open Space I am in a mode that is highly receptive of the idea of lineage… as a moment of respectful tying in to a greater web. There are lineages of blood… and the river of the past that pours into us in this way branches at each generation back.

But the rivers of transmission of thought and culture keep pouring into us our whole lives from so many more sources when we are open. Let these rivers pass through you.

Chicago boasts a great place known as the heartland cafe, up in Rogers Park.

Today several community-minded folk gathered there from around Chicago and as far as Seattle to LAP in and around the telecom rewrite that is going forward in Illinois.

LAP is, among other things, a way of engaging with others, in a spirit of open space processes.

LAP is Max Gail’s formulation, and I have now participated in about three formal LAP’s, but I too think it is a mode of approach, and something I felt great kinship with to begin with, and indeed it feels like one can practice it without circling up. I am deliberately avoiding giving a definition of LAP, out of respect to the depth and subtlety of the concept.

We’re hoping to convene future and further LAPs where we can explore possibilities to illuminate, release, support and create potential.

http://www.lap.org/

Although the specific issue raised was the pending telecom legislation in Illinois, the meeting was much more that that. (Needless to say.)