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Sun Sep 7 04:48:47 PDT 2008

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Advertise Braziers Park for Open Space meetings???

Thanks for another lovely weekend.

Michele

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Gerard Muller <gm at openspace.dk> wrote:

> Dear Doama,
>
> The workshop will be from November 13th lunch-November 15th lunch.
> I expect to finalise the invitation tomorrow, now that a space has found
> me,
> and mail it to you. It would be nice if you could make it !
>
> If the dates don't suit your schedule, there's a series of events, about
> one every week
> in different countries. Only those who realy intend to miss it need to do
> so.
>
> Greetings from Denmark,
>
>
>
>
> Gerard Muller
> Open Space Institute Denmark
> Phone: (+45) 21269621                                   Skype: openspace1
> Mail: gm at openspace.dk
>
>
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> On Sep 6, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Diana Larsen wrote:
>
>  Gerard,
>>
>> When will the workshop take place? I want to let some people know.
>>
>> Doama
>>
>> **
>> Diana Larsen
>> http://www.futureworksconsulting.com/get-in-touch
>>
>> "Secrets of Agile Teamwork: Beyond Technical Skills" workshop with Esther
>> Derby and Diana Larsen.
>> October 21-23, 2008, Amelia Island Florida
>> To register: http://tinyurl.com/6fv6xc
>>
>> "The Art of Agile..." workshop series with James Shore and Diana Larsen,
>> Oct. 27-31, 2008, Portland, Oregon
>> To register: http://tinyurl.com/6n5kbd
>>
>>
>> On Sep 6, 2008, at 2:57 AM, Gerard Muller wrote:
>>
>>  Dear all,
>>>
>>>
>>> I really enjoy working in beautiful spaces. More often than not however,
>>> clients have already rented
>>> one, usually too cramped or sterile, without any spirit. Sometimes there
>>> is
>>> a wonderful room I did not yet know.
>>>
>>>
>>> The worst space I ever worked in was when I was opening space for a
>>> regional
>>> tax office.
>>> They had decided to have the meeting in their cellar - to save costs. The
>>> ceiling was low,  it was a long and narrow rectangle. It had to hold 195
>>> participants. I wasn't happy.
>>>
>>>
>>> To my surprise the problem they had to solve was so bad that it did not
>>> seem
>>> to make a difference.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sometimes I find the space I am to work in is unusual, or wonderful, or
>>> both. I have worked in tents,
>>> in barns, in police stations, in city council meeting rooms, in museums,
>>> hospitals, castles, monasteries, churches, and so on.  Over the years I
>>> have
>>> found some places I really like to be.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sometimes the client has not yet booked something. Especially when it is
>>> not
>>> an internal meeting but a system, I find it useful to ask what location
>>> other than a normal meeting space would symbolise and offer the right
>>> environment for what they want to achieve. Again this has produced some
>>> remarkable spots.
>>>
>>>
>>> This time around, however, I could select the space. It concerned a
>>> rather
>>> special meeting; the seminar
>>> on Harrison's Wave Rider Tour in the Netherlands.
>>>
>>>
>>> Then something strange happened.
>>>
>>>
>>> All locations that I know and like were booked.
>>>
>>>
>>> I wrote to my network and asked for suggestions. Some twenty-five
>>> suggestions came in, most of which I did not know at all. In good spirits
>>> I
>>> started to check. All that I contacted were booked, too.
>>>
>>>
>>> I finally called a suggestion our collegue Gijs, a Dutchman living in
>>> Shanghai gave me when we met
>>> at WOSONOS in San Francisco. I called the secretariat of the
>>> Sufi-organisation and explained them
>>> I was looking for a special meeting space. Yes, they did have some
>>> meeting
>>> facilities, but they were definitely not a commercial conference centre.
>>> Only meetings with a strong spiritual link could be held.
>>>
>>>
>>> What came to my mind was to say that our meeting was to be about creating
>>> dialogue and enabling deep conversations that matter, but that I was not
>>> looking for normal facilities, but had heard they had quite a special
>>> place.
>>>
>>>
>>> There was a pause on the telephone line. "You must be reffering to our
>>> temple". I then remembered Gijs actually mentioned a temple.
>>>
>>>
>>> I was then given the name of the guardian of the temple. A few hours
>>> later I
>>> was there and had a wonderful conversation with a perfect stranger in an
>>> amazing building: a Sufi temple, a perfect square with a golden dome
>>> transparant enough to somehow pas on the light into the space.
>>>
>>>
>>> The story of its foundation is, that Sufi teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan,
>>> sent
>>> from India to Eaurope to create a link between the East and the West, had
>>> a
>>> special experience during the summer school of 1922. He blessed the spot
>>> and
>>> gave it the name Murad Hassil, which means "wish for filled".
>>> He said to his students that anyone who prays with honesty, would
>>> experience
>>> this blessing.
>>>
>>>
>>> So, Wave Rider in the Netherlands will take place in the Sufi Temple, not
>>> far from Amsterdam airport.
>>> And by the way, it lies at on a dune at the seacoast. It comes including
>>> real waves.
>>>
>>>
>>> If you feel like coming, drop me a line.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Gerard Muller
>>> gm at openspace.dk
>>>
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