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[kerry napuk]

Dear Kim

Just a few points on your questions:

1. We distribute no more than 10 dots.

2. We avoid any priority system because of the complexity and time
involved,  telling people to put their dots wherever they want, e.g.
one on ten different actions or all ten on one or anything in between.

3. Once we do a quick count of the largest concentrations, we write
up the priorities and votes and announce them.

4. Before going into action planning, we open the marketplace and ask
if anyone will "adopt" a priority and lead an action planning session
as a project leader.

5. We provide extra time and a common format for the action planning.

6. We ask the project leaders to give a one/two minute summary of
their plans after they meet.

7. You can hold another priority vote, if you want, on the proposed
action plans.

What a challenging return to open space!  Good luck!

Cheers

Kerry
Open Futures
Edinburgh

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>From  Wed Apr  7 07:58:30 2004
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 07:58:30 -0500
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From: Ashley Cooper <ashcooper at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Opening Space for a Closing World
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julie smith wrote:
"Sometimes I wonder whether we forget not only for
ourselves, but perhaps for others as well. And so I am willing to reveal
my forgetting again"

i think this is how we collectively heal. when we open up our own lessons
and vulnerabilities, sharing them with others, the answering, remembering,
and rediscovering can transcend the original "forgetter" and ripple into
healing for anyone that is open to such renewal.

thank you all for facilitating such opening of space!

with love,
ashley



> [Original Message]
> From: Julie Smith <jsmith at mosquitonet.com>
> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Date: 4/7/2004 3:15:15 AM
> Subject: Re: Opening Space for a Closing World
>
> Okay, Harrison.  I'll take you up on this one.  You said:
>
> "So I thought to myself, thought I, how to open some more space -
> anywhere,
> anyhow, with anyone???? Doing an OS is cool, but surely that represents
> but
> a tiny fraction of the opportunities available.  So come on Folks
> (Lurkers
> included) how do we open up some more space? And how are we doing right
> now.
> Perhaps if we shared we cold give each other some really good ideas."
>
> I could use some good ideas about now.
>
> I reported some time ago that I'm now the "executive director" (please,
> anyone, give me a better word to describe what I do!) of our local
> Montessori preschool.  I love the Montessori philosophy, and the
> children are blossoming in beautiful, amazing ways. Goodness abounds.
> Trouble is, in spite of many, many wonderful staff and parents, we
> suffer from a lack of cohesion and community between staff, between
> parents, and between staff and parents.  Truth is, I often come home
> feeling frayed, frustrated, misunderstood and unappreciated. (Good
> grief! Is that me talking? How did I get here????)
>
> There you have it.  I could tell you a longer version, but I doubt the
> telling would add anything significant (and it might resemble whining).
>
>
> And here is my question (remembering now from a brief encounter with the
> I Ching that the framing of the question is as revealing as the
> receiving of the answer)(now feeling even greater pressure to get it
> right): How do I help this community I love make the journey from where
> we are now to a place of mutual understanding, regard, and purpose?  How
> do we tap our enormous reservoir of intelligence, love, and intention
> for the greater good of us all?  How do we, as a community, engage in
> that energizing, invigorating, inspiring dance on the spiral of
> expanding consciousness?
>
> I release my questions to you, the universe.  I look forward with great
> anticipation to all that comes back to me.
>
> (And now I laugh, remembering another time I forgot the answers I
> already knew, and Chris C. sharing a poem that told that old story most
> beautifully.  Sometimes I wonder whether we forget not only for
> ourselves, but perhaps for others as well. And so I am willing to reveal
> my forgetting again.)
>
> (And I heard Harrison's question in my soul, asking me to answer. So at
> the same time that I ask the universe for answers, I am the universe
> answering.)
>
> (It's great to be writing here again.  Nothing like it, anywhere, for
> me.)
>
> Much love ~~~
>
> Julie
>
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