FW: Is Anybody Home?

[Harrison Owen]

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Subject: SV: Is Anybody Home?

Hello Harrison,


At least for me your hypothesis is right.
Am in the midst of three Open Space events
in three different countries within one week,
but will be back with stories next week,




Gerard Muller
Open Space Institute Denmark
Phone: (+45) 21269621					Skype: openspace1
Mail: gm at openspace.dk








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>
> Presumably, everybody is busy with useful stuff or just taking a nap
(:-)),
> but it seems a while since I heard from all my friends. Personally, I have
> come back south from my summer abode in Maine and have started on the
> Winter's chores. Not that it is really like work, but I find myself
thinking
> a lot about where OST has taken me. At the simplest level OST as become a
> marvelous natural experiment probing a very different understanding of the
> capacity of human beings for productive and fulfilling work, and the way
we
> might approach the work that we do. Several years ago I wrote a book,
"The
> Practice of Peace," exploring the work of Peace Making. Currently on
my desk
> is another effort looking at the ways in which we have sub-optimized and
> underestimated the capacity for superior performance. Whether this
actually
> turns into a book or not, remains to be seen, but the interest is there.
And
> then there is the marvelous opportunity to do an OS with a large software
> company designing a new major product line. I think we could learn just
how
> ineffective we have been in this area, and how one might radically raise
the
> level of performance. And I am wondering what you may have discovered???
>
> For example, we have used OST quite a bit in an educational environment
> apparently to good effect. But then my question is what have we learned
> about the nature of education and how we might do it better. And of
course,
> here in the US we are totally enmeshed in the Political Season and I
wonder
> what we may have learned about the political process, and how to do it
> better and more effectively. . . Just Wondering.
>
> Harrison
>
> Harrison Owen
> 7808 River Falls Drive
> Potomac, Maryland   20854
> Phone 301-365-2093
> Skype hhowen
> Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com
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