OST for Office Conflict. Yes or No?
Elwin and Joan
elwinandjoan at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 29 14:31:23 PDT 2006
Dear Colleagues,
A few days back, while I was on assignment in Ethiopia, a consulting
firm I have long association with emailed to say they needed me to
cover a 2 day management training and team building job with a US Gov’t
office in DC.
Fair enough I thought. The consulting firm knows me well and our
history together has always been one of success.
I asked for and received a Statement of Work (SOW) that was the usual
referencing of interactive approaches to building cooperation, respect
and a sense of teamwork.
Based on the SOW, I wrote a proposal for a 1 1/2 day Open Space
conference with the theme, “Looking for Opportunities to Improve Our
Teamwork”.
The proposal was accepted by the client.
I am now Stateside. I just talked with the client and things look
pretty ugly.
I now know the “real” interest in this exercise is to get rid of one
or two of the office employees. These two people are viewed by a new
management (my clients) as subversives, if not terrorists. The new boss
wants them “gone.”
In 5 days I am scheduled to do this Open Space with six employees
including the boss.
I am not at all reluctant to change my proposal and do my “hard hat”
management consultant routine.
On the other hand this might be a perfect OST opportunity.
What say you?
eg
Elwin Guild
Future Development International
Baltimore
elwinandjoan at yahoo.com
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>From Tue Aug 29 15:33:42 2006
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Subject: Re: Found Poem -- June 8 to August 23,
2006 -- Opening Space forConflict and Peace
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Thank you, Doug and others who have shared thoughts about these poems -- as
I mentioned to one of you -- it's really a great experience to sit with
peoples' words and see how they want to be combined and contrasted for a
new, shared meaning.
Lisa
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From: douglas germann [mailto:76066.515 at compuserve.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 3:17 PM
To: lisaheft at openingspace.net
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Subject: Re: Found Poem -- June 8 to August 23, 2006 -- Opening Space
forConflict and Peace
Lisa--
Just wanted to let you know that to me your found poems are something I
look forward to, and set a time to sit with, for they are good.
Thank you for this service to our community.
:- Doug.
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>From Tue Aug 29 16:16:54 2006
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:16:54 -0700
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From: Lisa Heft <lisaheft at openingspace.net>
Subject: Poetry Contest
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..which brings me to.
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poetry
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time.to
create a poem and be prepared to be surprised for the possibility of =
being
chosen as our next Poet Laureate.
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So, in honor of our recent conversations about dialogue using different
modalities (talk, text, but also sight, sound and so on), if you wish to
submit a poem for our contest please write one that=20
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do add a translation in English.
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Time) to send your poems to the OSLIST -plus- my direct email:
lisaheft at openingspace.net
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After that date I will publish again on the list every text of every
participant sent to me. The poems will be judged by a vote of the =
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members, and the author of the poem that attracts the majority of votes =
will
become our next Poet Laureate, which includes the honor of holding space =
for
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come.
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L i s a H e f t
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
O p e n i n g S p a c e
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3D"Trebuchet MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:
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English.</span></font></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3D"Trebuchet MS"><span =
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style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold'>September 15 </span></font></b><font size=3D2
face=3D"Trebuchet MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>at
midnight (Pacific Standard / West Coast USA Time) to =
</span></font><b><font
size=3D2 face=3D"Trebuchet MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold'>send your poems to the OSLIST –<u>plus</u>- my =
direct
email</span></font></b><font size=3D2 face=3D"Trebuchet MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>: <a =
href=3D"mailto:lisaheft at openingspace.net">lisaheft at openingspace.net</a></=
span></font></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3D"Trebuchet MS"><span =
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3D"Trebuchet MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>After that date I will publish again =
on the
list every text of every participant sent to me. The poems will be =
judged
by a vote of the OSLIST members, and the author of the poem that =
attracts the
majority of votes will become our next </span></font><b><font size=3D2
color=3Dfuchsia face=3D"Trebuchet MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";color:fuchsia;font-weight:bold'>Poet =
Laureate</span></font></b><font
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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>,
which includes the honor of holding space for Open Space poetry for our =
list
for the <i><span style=3D'font-style:italic'>next</span></i> 6 =
months.</span></font></p>
<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3D"Trebuchet MS"><span =
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3D"Trebuchet MS"><span =
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experience of what is about to come…</span></font></p>
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3D"Trebuchet MS"><span =
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i s a H e f t</span></font></b></p>
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MS"><span
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet =
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Facilitator, Educator</span></font></p>
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