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Over the years the national and international press has been quite kind
to Open Space. Indeed, I am often surprised when people say they have
never heard of Open Space. There have been feature stories in the <i>New
York Times, Washington Post. Los Angeles Times, Forbes</i> and a whole
mess more. The one thing that has never quite happened is some
consideration of Open Space in an academic journal. There is apparently
one exception (<i>Organization Dynamics</i>) but I have never managed to
find a copy. Strange. Here is an approach to group inter-action (large
and small) which has a track record of 15 years and 1000's of
applications world wide -- and somehow it escaped the academics attention
-- even though it contravened most, if not all, of what current theory
and practice would predict. Ah -- that may be the reason ???? Nasty
thought.<br>
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Anyhow -- a friend who will remain nameless (don't want to blow his
cover) ran a literature search. It is three pages long, and covers only
the US. I don't have all the articles, but some. Maybe others have the
ones I missed? <br>
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So if you would like a copy of this, I can send it to you as an
attachment. It is not a small file, and you should be able to open it on
Acrobat or some such. Let me know by private email if you are interested.
<owenhh@mindspring.com> <br>
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If you do this in the next 5 days -- I will get it out. After that I am
in Maine for the summer, and although the email reaches to such forgotten
territories, I am afraid I don't have all the pertinent files on my
laptop (which is what goes with me.)<br>
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By the way, if you ever get into that part of the world, Camden Maine is
a wonderful place and the phone number is 207-763-3261.<br>
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Have a great summer.<br>
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Harrison<br>
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Harrison Owen<br>
7808 River Falls Drive<br>
Potomac, MD 20854<br>
USA<br>
phone 301-469-9269<br>
fax 301-983-9314<br>
website <br>
<a href="http://www.mindspring.com/~owenhh" eudora="autourl">www.mindspring.com/~owenhh</a><br>
Open Space Institute websites<br>
<a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/" eudora="autourl">www.openspaceworld.org</a><br>
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