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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Harrison, Julie and OS friends</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Conflict resolution and peace making (with
references to Ken Wilber); Wasn't it Einstein who said that a true problem can
never be solved from the same state in which it was created? I think conflict
resolution is about "translation" - finding more effective ways of being/ doing,
while essentially still in the same paradigm. Peace making is about
transformation - developing/ growing to a new place from whence the old
conflicts dissolve. And in fact, both are our natural state. It's just that they
do different things.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And the facilitator as a tuning fork / being fully
present - evokes and embodies a subtle reminder of these transformative
passageways. Of course passageways, like birth canals, aren't easy. Hence
conflict may be magnified, at least for a time. After all, that is what is going
on. I wonder if one of the greatest gifts of the facilitator is their appearance
of confidence/ faith in the participants. Going through that birth canal, you
may not be sure if you can make it. Having someone else provide that sense gives
one the hope that their might just be something at the other end!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Meg Salter</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>MegaSpace Consulting<BR>416/486-6660<BR><A
href="mailto:meg.salter@sympatico.ca">meg.salter@sympatico.ca</A><BR><A
href="http://www.megaspaceconsulting.com">www.megaspaceconsulting.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:jsmith@mosquitonet.com" title=jsmith@mosquitonet.com>Julie
Smith</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU"
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 12, 2002 12:44
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: A First Step From Rome</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Dear
</SPAN></FONT><st1:place>Harrison</st1:place>,<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">You said<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">><SPAN class=GramE>><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The</SPAN> experience in
</SPAN></FONT><st1:City><st1:place>Rome</st1:place></st1:City> provides an
opportunity for deep learning about this thing we call Open Space, and
possibly an even deeper learning about <FONT color=#333399><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333399"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT>possible pathways to
peace. Since my time 10 years ago in South Africa, it has been clear to me
that OS has enormous power for what we might call conflict resolution, but it
is a resolution that does not eliminate conflict. If anything the conflict is
magnified, but space is provided so that the conflict, and the energy it
contains, may become a positive force. All of this takes place without any
carefully crafted process or procedure. In a most remarkable way, it seems to
happen all by itself. <SPAN class=GramE>Which leads me to the conclusion that
the apparent magic has nothing to do with Open Space Technology, and
everything to do with the power of self-organization.</SPAN> All we do in Open
Space is to create the conditions under which a completely natural process can
start or re-start. If true, this is really good news, for it would mean that
we already have at our disposal the "tools" necessary for peace. We have only
to be fully what we are. <SPAN class=GramE>Thoughts?</SPAN><FONT color=#333399
face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><<<FONT
color=#333399><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333399"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The distinction between peacemaking and conflict
resolution has been germinating for awhile now…. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">It seems to me that conflict resolution is man-made,
while peace is our natural state.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Not peace in the sense of dullness and sameness, but peace in the
sense of whatever makes the heart swell with awe and
appreciation.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I think there’s a difference between peacemaking and
conflict resolution.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I think the difference is that conflict resolution
processes are rational man-made processes designed to address man-made
concerns.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think
peacemaking goes deeper.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Peacemaking recognizes who we are.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When we do that, we don’t
resolve conflict, we transcend it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And it isn’t hard.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When we
recognize who we are, there is no conflict to transcend. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Conflict ceases to exist for us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hence, joy. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN class=GramE>And the peace that
<SPAN class=SpellE>passeth</SPAN> understanding.</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(I’m curious about where Wilber fits
into this….. I’ve only read a bit of his work, but seems like there’s
something in there about trying to communicate between paradigms, and how that
doesn’t work.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m beginning to
wonder if peacemaking and conflict resolution belong to different
paradigms.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">OS/OST fits because….. <SPAN class=SpellE><SPAN
class=GramE>hmmmmm</SPAN></SPAN>…… I keep thinking about tuning forks.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><st1:place>Harrison</st1:place>, I sometimes think of you
as a tuning fork (with all due regard and respect, of course! :<SPAN
class=GramE>) )</SPAN>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My mental image is that you tune
yourself to your highest state of being, enter the circle, and hum.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you speak and walk the circle, you
hum.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because the hum of love,
hope, and kindness is irresistible to us, others begin to attune their hum to
yours.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Little by little, the
collective hum reaches a higher state of consciousness and harmony than it had
before it was tuned with the tuning fork (<SPAN class=SpellE>aka</SPAN>
<st1:PersonName>Harrison Owen</st1:PersonName>).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And then, you let go and let the
musicians co-create the music they came to play.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The music is better than usual
because the musicians begin more closely attuned than usual.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The attunement is to our natural
state, to peace…… and OST is thus a practice of peace.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Julie</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#333399 face=Arial
size=2><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>