Alice Herz-Sommer, dancing under the gallows

Alice Herz-Sommer (born 26 November 1903 in Prague). Pianist, music teacher and the world’s oldest known Holocaust survivor.

Here "Alice dancing under the Gallows" promo video (12´) and some words from the comments on the site:

• This video changed my life. It never gets old, or loses it's gravity. Alice, you were sent from God as a light to mankind. God bless you. You are my hero.
• I am head over heels in love with Alice. I've watched this about 20 times. It's my Alice-therapy. God bless her. She is a gift to this world.

Here the same video with Spanish subtitles.

Enjoy this wonderful day :-)!

Eleder BuM (Bilbao underground Mayor)

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Midway between beauty & horror. Love what is

Do we have the courage to face the realities of our time?

And allow ourselves to feel deeply enough that it transforms us
 and our future?

Come with me on a journey through the eye of beauty

Across an ocean of grief and beyond…

MIDWAY : trailer : a film by Chris Jordan from Midway media project on .

Chris Jordan - Director/Producer   For more information:  MidwayFilm.com  Twitter: @midwayjourney

Music Baaba Maal

Text below from the Vimeo page of the project:

A powerful, poetic, visual and introspective journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch. Returning to the island over several years, our team is witnessing the cycles of life and death of these birds as a multi-layered metaphor for our times. With photographer Chris Jordan as our guide, we walk through the fire of horror and grief, facing the immensity of this tragedy—and our own complicity—head on. And in this process, we find an unexpected route to a transformational experience of beauty, acceptance, and understanding.

We frame our story in the vividly gorgeous language of state-of-the-art high-definition digital cinematography, surrounded by millions of live birds in one of the world’s most beautiful natural sanctuaries. The viewer will experience stunning juxtapositions of beauty and horror, destruction and renewal, grief and joy, birth and death, coming out the other side with their heart broken open and their worldview shifted. Stepping outside the stylistic templates of traditional environmental or documentary films, MIDWAY will take viewers on a guided tour into the depths of their own spirits, delivering a profound message of reverence and love.

Watching and reading this takes us to embrace  chaos, confusion and conflict as Harrison Owen suggests us; birth and death, breath in, breath out; let go through the grief process,... Open Space. It also takes us to Byron Katie´s proposal to love what is.

Best,

Eleder BuM (Bilbao underground Mayor)
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http://www.bilbohiria.com/gaika/berbaz (radio interviews Basque)  

Circle + Open Space power: nice story via HO

 Very nice stroy shared by Harrison Owen on the Oslist. OS and a circle layout: much  more  productive, much more peaceful,...

Just imagine 250 Senior Rabbis and Imams gathered together in the service of Peace. Place was Seville and the participants were the upper echelon, so to speak. The sponsors, assuming that a little transition into Open Space would be helpful for this bunch of folks, had designed the 1^st day in the Standard Way. Straight rows of chairs, dais, and endless speeches. The proceedings began at 9 am, but by noon the room was total chaos. Delegates were standing on desks and screaming at each other.  I wasn’t in the room, finding such a meeting more than I can handle, but as I was walking towards the  dining room for lunch I was intercepted by the sponsor’s associate. Frantically he called my name and popped the big question, “How quickly could I Open Space?”

The Open Space part of the 3 day program wasn’t due to start until the next day, but plans do change when driven by necessity. I replied that we were good to go just as quickly as the hotel could re-arrange the room – which turned out to be 2 hours. That gave us time for lunch and a little cooling off period for a very overheated group of people.

Somewhere around 3 pm – there we were. The same group of folks who in the morning were close to killing each other (at least verbally) – now all sitting peacefully in a circle. And so it went – just like usual…

Harrison

Open Space "side effects" during 1st Lunch Beat in Bilbao

Yesterday some people gathered in Bilbao to join a Lunch Beat first time in our town (an interesting way to open a bit of connecting space in daily routine at lunch time. How? Dancing! Take a look to the manifesto, you´ll like it!). The inviters (Pink Gorillas) had taken few time to spread the word, people tend to be quite scared to dance here, it was first time,... so, they were (as most of conveners usually are) a bit worried about attendance.

But, very quickly, someone said "ok, no problem, whoever comes is the right people, like in Open Space....".

Yes, they had attended some Open Space events last years and they love it :-)!

And yes! A grin prompted on my face :-)!.

Simple story and (very) gratifying... sure you have many similar ones!

Enjoy life!

Eleder BuM31    Open Space-Mind mapping-Creativity    

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http://www.bilbohiria.com/gaika/berbaz (radio interviews) 

pd: some time before Lunch Beat, yesterday I booked the plane tickets for London (go 8-X ; unplanned time + Wosonos; back 15-X,). Hope to join you there,... dancing too :-)!

Gustavo Esteva: challenging the institutional production of truth

Gustavo Esteva provides with a very interesting view on present global issues.

You´ll also probably enjoy reading this piece by Gustavo on Unitierra (learning&community&playfulness...): http://www.gustavoesteva.com/english_site/back_from_the_future.htm 


... and maybe some lines on Gustavo (here) too.

Where did I first knew about Gustavo and Unitierra? #WalkOutWalkOn , great book by Deborah Frieze and Meg Wheatley.


Big hug!

Eleder BuM31    Buru-mapak-Espazio Irekia-Sormena  

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Green House Project in Joubert Park (Johannesburg)

Really inspiring story in this 4´video!

Eleder BuM31    Buru-mapak-Espazio Irekia-Sormena  

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MR HAPPY MAN: Johny Barnes

Mr. Happy Man from Matt Morris Films on Vimeo.

Eleder BuM31    Buru-mapak-Espazio Irekia-Sormena  
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www.in-fluyendo.blogspot.com (esp) www.flowandshow.blogspot.com

http://bm31-liburuak.blogspot.com

http://www.bilbohiria.com/gaika/berbaz (irrati elkarrizketak)