The spirit that guides OSE
“I ask them to go to the very end of themselves, and they listen to me because they see, they sense that I go to the very end of myself, to the end of my quest.”
Alignment means staying true to what our deep current recognises as true and right, for our own fulfilment and our contribution to Humanity.
Every human being is like an ocean. Deep within lies a deep current. On the surface, visible to all, drift the sea spray: emotions, thoughts, decisions.
Find out more →Connecting the sea spray to the waves. Making what we think, what we say and what we do match. An important stage in personal development.
Find out more →Connecting the waves to the deep current. A constant search for faithfulness to what our deep current recognises as right. Alignment is not a state, it is a direction, it is a path.
Find out more →This requirement concerns young people, but also families, clubs and leaders. Everyone is invited to pursue their own work of alignment.
Find out more →Organisations have a purpose. Their alignment consists of remaining faithful to that purpose, by connecting their mission, their choices, their actions and their consequences.
Find out more →OSE offers a simple tool: the Four Questions of Alignment Criterion. It helps everyone question their choices, decisions and actions.
Find out more →It is born when people perceive a deep faithfulness between what we affirm and what we truly seek to live.
Find out more →OSE does not seek to manufacture role models. OSE seeks to help everyone become more fully themselves, by discovering what they are called to be and by striving to remain true to it.
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Founding principle
Personal and collective coherence
7–8 min
OSE Values · Adventure Pact · OSE Charter
Connecting what I think, what I say and what I do.
Connecting my life to what is most essential within me.
A direction rather than a state.
“Alignment is not a state. It is a direction. It is a path.”
“The vitality of an organisation depends less on its size, its age or its resources than on its ability to remain true to its soul. Like any human adventure, OSE must regularly return to its deep current to check that its projects, decisions and actions remain in service of its founding vocation.”