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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place><font size=2 color=navy face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:
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color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>“So I’m increasingly thinking that there is
no such thing as empowerment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I
just don’t see it being possible to empower others.”</span></font><font size=2
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color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Thank you for your thoughts Chris, it is the
same with motivation – another people cannot motivate me, it comes from within.
What we/others can do is to create opportunities, and environments so that I am
able to motivate myself! And can we have something better than Open Space to
create these opportunities, to remind us (and probably most the management)
that we already know everything there is to know – it is more of finding the
knowledge within again.</span></font><span class=E-postmall19><font size=2
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>-----Ursprungligt
meddelande-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Från:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>För </span></b>Chris
Corrigan<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Skickat:</span></b> den 15 februari 2003
17:05<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Till:</span></b>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Ämne:</span></b> Re: OST and decolonization</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Harrison</st1:place>:</span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>I use that line
about disempowerment all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The empowerment thing is a funny one, but over the years, working with <st1:PersonName>Open
Space</st1:PersonName> I have learned that it is really only possible to disempower
somebody, not to empower them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>People empower themselves, people only disempower others.</span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>The kind of
power we’re talking about of course is the power of spirit, and that which
enables us to move and make movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Most of us spend our lives having this power whittled away by different
people and institutions, be they political, educational, social, economic or
what have you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Occasionally people
find their power again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Sometimes
they fully reclaim it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>How else
does one explain Mahatma Gandhi, Rigoberta Menchu, Nelson Mandela, Aun Sung Suu
Kyi and many other men and women who, at some point during their lives have
seemed to have more power than all of their contemporaries and most of their
oppressors?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Nobody empowered these
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>No one said “now you have
the ability to do your work.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I
think all of these people chose their work and embarked upon it, and in so
doing became engaged with spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Spirit is what got them going and kept them moving.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>So I’m
increasingly thinking that there is no such thing as empowerment.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I just don’t see it being possible to
empower others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This is an old
learning from <st1:PersonName>Open Space</st1:PersonName>, indeed it stick out
of the old green user’s guide as a pull quote somewhere.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>To say “I empower others” is to shut
down space totally.</span></font><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>I was recently
discussing the two questions that lie at the heart of OST facilitation practice
(“What do you really want to do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Fine, why don’t you take care of it?”) with a participant in <st1:PersonName>Open
Space</st1:PersonName>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She was
saying that at first blush, those questions could feel very disempowering.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I replied that this probably had more
to do with the scale of the initial expectations.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>For example, she really wanted to make something akin to
world peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>When I asked “why
don’t you take care of it?” she gave a litany of reasons, including just how
much time it would take.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>So I
asked her the questions again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The
next answer was “make more time – do that by re prioritizing her work.”<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If world peace was truly what she
wanted to make, all she needed to do was make it the most important thing in
her life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Gandhi had the same 24
hours in a day as the rest of us.</span></font><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>The point is
that one’s power begins to be reclaimed as the scale of the work becomes more
and more human.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Who knows how one
makes world peace, really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>One
thing we know for sure is that it takes commitment and time, and those are
things that people CAN do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And
then when the law of two feet kicks in and people start doing things like
learning and contributing, suddenly “empowerment” breaks out all over the
place.</span></font><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Coming out of <st1:PersonName>Open
Space</st1:PersonName> meetings with clients I often talk about the changes in
an organization being undertaken by those who can do them.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In one story of mine, with a government
department that was becoming an agency, a major issue was the employment status
of the employees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Would they lose
their sonority, benefits and pensions?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It was a big question, important to everyone and the answer was unknown.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A receptionist in the department
indicated that everything else about the change was peanuts compared to this
for her, but it was frustrating in that she couldn’t do anything about it.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>To the credit
of the senior management, they committed to meeting on a conference call and
discussing this issue the week after our OST meeting with the intention of
ensuring the job security that was important to their employees.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Collectively they could influence the
right people and agencies in the right way.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>It was simply a question of what to do, rather than “How in
the world…?”</span></font><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>And the
receptionist, upon hearing the senior management personally commit to the
conference call, declared proudly that she would gladly set up the call.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She certainly could have chosen to
express her wishes through her union or another confrontational venue, but it
was enough for her to speak from her heart and then do what she could to
facilitate the outcome she wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>And in then end, the job security issue was resolved
satisfactorily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>What I love
about this whole way of thinking about empowerment is that it is the dynamic of
invitation that is at work in the empowering moment.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>It is the invitation that Spirit drops in front of us which
says “pssssst….walk this way…” that begins our journey to finding the freedom
to do our own work.</span></font><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><st1:place><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US'>Harrison</st1:place>, you ask what we may do with all of this, and all I
can do is agree with you – do it more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>As a consultant, people invite me into their communities and
organizations to help them do work, and they are sometimes more than a little
surprised when I show up only with the intent to open space.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I can’t “help” anyone really, but I can
maybe draw attention to the constant invitation from Spirit that swirls around
us, and use my role as a facilitator to simply let people find that for themselves.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In fact since I have acquired my Tibetan
bells, I have had several people say to me that they think that the bells do
this all on their own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>When they
ring to begin the meeting, suddenly there is a different awareness in the room.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Something is about to be
different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This is not like any other
meeting. </span></font><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>And in fact it
is like every other meeting in that the same people are there, the same issues
lie in the heart of each person, and folks may even be sitting in the same
circle that they always sit in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>What is different is simply the fact there is no agenda, and there is
this guy we’ve never met who is pointing out four universal principles and one
universal law that we forgotten about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>And somehow out of all that, people find their power and start lighting
up like fire flies. </span></font><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>I believe that
we can do no more or less than <st1:PersonName>Open Space</st1:PersonName>.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If there is a better way to do this,
then I’<st1:PersonName>m c</st1:PersonName>ertainly open to it, but I think
this may be one case where we may already be there.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></span></font><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Chris</span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-color-alt:
windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>---<br>
CHRIS CORRIGAN<br>
Consultation - Facilitation<br>
</span><st1:PersonName><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Open Space</span></st1:PersonName><span
style='mso-no-proof:yes'> Technology<br>
<br>
</span><st1:place><st1:City><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Bowen Island</span></st1:City><span
style='mso-no-proof:yes'>, </span><st1:State><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>BC</span></st1:State><span
style='mso-no-proof:yes'>, </span><st1:country-region><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Canada</span><br>
</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></font><font color=black><span
lang=EN-US style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><a
href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com"><font size=2><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.chriscorrigan.com</span></span></font></a></span><span
style='mso-no-proof:yes'></font><font size=2 color=black><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><br>
chris@chriscorrigan.com</span></span></font><font color=black><span lang=EN-US
style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;border:none;mso-border-left-alt:
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color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Tahoma;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST [mailto:<st1:PersonName>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</st1:PersonName>]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b><st1:PersonName>Harrison
Owen<br>
</st1:PersonName><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday,
February 15, 2003 4:02 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
</st1:PersonName><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: OST
and decolonization</span></font><font color=black><span lang=EN-US
style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;border:none;mso-border-left-alt:
solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><font size=3
color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span></font><font color=black><span
lang=EN-US style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;border:none;mso-border-left-alt:
solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><font size=3
color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>At 04:58 PM 2/14/2003 -0800, CHRIS
CORRIGAN wrote:<br style='mso-special-character:line-break'>
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<![endif]></span></font><font color=black><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;
mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;border:none;mso-border-left-alt:
solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><font size=3
color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>He said that at the end of the day he
realized that this kind of<br>
expectation is what cultural assimilation is all about; that we expect<br>
others to set the agenda and tell us what our work is supposed to be.<br>
He concluded that <st1:PersonName>Open Space</st1:PersonName> works well
because it invites us to do our<br>
own work. In that fundamental and simple act, OST begins to unlock a<br>
lot of years of conditioned thinking, and reveals the possibility of<br>
truly decolonized communities: communities where we do our own work.</span></font><font
color=black><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;border:none;mso-border-left-alt:
solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><font size=3
color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><br>
Marvelous, Chris! The experience recounted matches that of groups with which I
have worked, and many more facilitated by the likes of Elwin Guild, Mikk Sarv,
and John Engle. In a word, the experience is not unique, but the statement is
-- at least in terms of its simplicity and directness. I am not quite sure what
we do with all this except -- more of the same. But I do think it
is very worth while to closely consider what is going on here and how we might
better assist the progress. This is a tricky one, for our role clearly must be
both supportive AND invisible. I find it to be true that every time I do
something for somebody, to some extent I dis-empower them. <br>
<br>
Harrison<br>
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size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'><x-sigsep>Harrison Owen<br>
</st1:PersonName>7808 River Falls Drive<br>
Potomac, MD 20854 USA<br>
phone 301-365-2093<br>
<st1:PersonName>Open Space</st1:PersonName> Training <a
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