{"id":626,"date":"2006-05-20T08:36:58","date_gmt":"2006-05-20T14:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/20\/receiving\/"},"modified":"2006-05-19T00:49:50","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T06:49:50","slug":"receiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/20\/receiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice Receiving, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luminacoaching.com\">Karen Sella<\/a>, reflecting on the other side of <em>inviting<\/em> after our recent leadership practice retreat on Bowen Island&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My approach to open space\u2014and life in general (sometimes this distinction seems irrelevant)\u2014is about receiving as much as inviting\u2014receiving what is offered; what wants to be received. Whenever I open space, I invite people to consider that each person in the space is a gift just waiting to be received. All we have to do is open our bodies, hearts and minds to receiving each other. If we do nothing else, that will have been profound\u2014indeed, sometimes, that\u2019s the most profound thing that we can do, a prerequisite for everything else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She&#8217;s also just spiffed up her <a href=\"http:\/\/lumina.typepad.com\/luminalogue\/\">Luminalogue<\/a> weblog.  It&#8217;s one of those gifts just waiting to be received!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Karen Sella, reflecting on the other side of inviting after our recent leadership practice retreat on Bowen Island&#8230; My approach to open space\u2014and life in general (sometimes this distinction seems irrelevant)\u2014is about receiving as much as inviting\u2014receiving what is offered; what wants to be received. Whenever I open space, I invite people to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/20\/receiving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Practice Receiving, Too&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-space-technology","category-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}