mental meanderings - you got me going Julie (long)

[Elwin and Joan]

--- Harrison Owen <owenhh at mindspring.com> wrote:
 But more important than "answers" (in my experience)
is/are questions. When the questions are clear and
acute, people seem naturally to search for answers,
and will gravitate to those who answer with the
authority of knowledge and experience. And if there
are no (immediate) answers, the search goes on, but it
becomes a collaborative one.

5 November

Regards from Baku, Azerbaijan.

For the past seven years I have been engaged in USAID
sponsored development work, mostly in the former
Soviet Union. My tasks involve efforts to create Civil
Society. I am always introduced as the "expert" and
the expectation of all parties is that I will act the
"role."

I believe that my continued successes in this realm
are not due to the "authority model" but precisely
what Harrrison has stated so well...I ask the "right"
questions and expand them to the point where the
participants "discover" their answer.  At that point I
feel responsible for starting the celebration of that
discovery. After hundreds of these experiences I
"know" it works. It is just like Open Space!

Elwin Guild
Future Development International
Baltimore



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>From  Tue Nov  5 09:47:22 2002
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Laurel and Rick schrieb:

> ...poem be 10 lines long, otherwise structured
> anyway you choose.
> ... entries to me by November 5th
>
>
>
> hi, laurel,
> I learned in school: "remember, remember the fifth of november"
> but I don´t remember what was is for.
> now I have a better reason to rembember this day for taking part in time
> (within a lot of while not  taking part in our discussion).

a circle line in open space

the first line starts  alone as mine
line two is totally for you
number three lets us now say: we
a fourth one leads us further on
to number five which gives life
for a sixth one for to mix up
with the seventh even yet having
contact to the white number eight
which leads to line number nine
ending with ten in closing down  -- to one again.


take ten hugs
florian

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