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</U><FONT FACE="Arial" DEFAULT="FACE"><FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="11">Dear colleagues and friends in open space,<BR>
when I was introduced to open space three years ago by Harrison Owen and Romy Shovelton in Roffey Park, England I had no inkling of the impact that it would have on my consultant carreer. In the last 35 years I passed through a number of transitions. From student organizer to co-op organizer to union organizer to community organizer to od-consultant and through various personal transitions. But getting into open space is having a transformational quality that is of another order.<BR>
After close to 50 open space events since 1996, a bunch of orientation sessions for colleagues in Berlin and Germany, training with Harrison here last fall for 64 participants, Learning Circle on Large Group Interventions and meeting with many of you at the annual OSonOS events I became more and more estranged from my old consultant mode and no longer felt happy in my 25 year old job as an internal consultant with the protestant church of Berlin. <BR>
As a consequence I am quitting my old job. I will be on my own starting September 1. There will be more open space in my professional life.<BR>
Space for new projects. One will be a training that Gabriela Ender and I will offer early next year (take a look at our new website: www.we-open-spaces.de.) to address the large demand for open space facilitators in the German speaking regions of Europe. For me the right time to expand my activities in open space is now. <BR>
This list serve will continue to be of great support and that's why I am writing to you all in appreciation and gratitude and promise to keep in touch electronically and, of course, personally-------in Chicago.<BR>
Whenever any of you pass through Berlin make sure to stop for a visit.<BR>
Love, michael<BR>
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Michael M Pannwitz<br>
Draisweg 1<br>
12209 Berlin, Germany<br>
FON +49 - 30-772 8000 FAX +49 - 30-773 92 464<br>
www.michaelMpannwitz.de<br>
www.we-open-spaces.de<br>
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