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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle22><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic"'>I like that: better theology, too.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Jim Metcalf</span></font><font size=2
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>-----Original
Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Harrison Owen<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 19, 2001
1:45 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Self-Organization</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>At 07:27 PM
11/17/01 -0500, Jim Metcalf wrote:<br style='mso-special-character:line-break'>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:.5in;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 color=navy face="Century Gothic"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";color:navy'>So, I m
proposing that we have a continuum. On one end is the nearly pure
democratically self-organized system.<br>
</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face="Century Gothic"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";color:navy'>On the other
end of the continuum is the tyrannically organized system, which must always
contend with the natural inclination of people to self-organize in order to
meet their own needs.<br>
</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face="Century Gothic"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";color:navy'>One thing that
seems to make Open Space work is that it goes with the flow. It takes advantage
of people s natural inclination to self-organize, to have input into their own
destiny, to be free. I believe the other thing that makes Open Space work is
its reliance on Word to create the self-organizing system. The words that are
shared in Open Space create order out of the initial chaos. The words that are
shared in Open Space also prevent the continuing chaos of people acting
individually without words, without communication, without coordination,
without care for another s ideas.</span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><br>
Good thought! But I might suggest a different phrasing. In the beginning there
were self-organizing systems to which there has been a </span></font><i><font
color=blue><span style='color:blue;font-style:italic'>continuum of response</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black'> -- </span></font></i><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>ranging from tyrannical to democratic. Self-organization is
intrinsically neither, and is prior to both. However, it seems to function much
better at the democratic end of things if only because it is then free to be
itself. <br>
<br>
How about that?<br>
<br>
ho<br>
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size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black'>Harrison Owen<br>
7808 River Falls Drive<br>
Potomac, MD 20854 USA<br>
phone 301-469-9269<br>
Open Space Training <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com/" eudora=autourl>www.openspaceworld.com</a>
<br>
Open Space Institute <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/" eudora=autourl>www.openspaceworld.org</a><br>
Personal website <a href="http://www.mindspring.com/~owenhh" eudora=autourl>www.mindspring.com/~owenhh</a><br>
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