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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Ashley:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>I think this is the crux of what we have been
discussing, whether or not it is possible to even do what you are asking.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>But since you put it out there, I’ll reply
with a nice excerpt from a book I recently noted in my </span></font><st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Open
Space</span></font></st1:PersonName><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> weblog:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:black'>"See the world as energy, and become responsible for your
energy. Realize that everything you do, say, and touch, everything you pass -
even for a fleeting second - is affected and changed by you. You impact the
animals and plants; the air, water, and buildings; and people - the energy of
each drops or rises to reflect the subtle etheric pressure you place on it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>When you are
angry, fearful, mean and vindictive, the energy of the room you are in starts
to wobble and act chaotically. It metaphysically starts to implode. Anyone
standing nearby will be robbed of energy and pulled down. Everything gets
sucked into the vortex of your negative implosion.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>With perception
comes responsibility. Understand that if you are infinite you are everywhere,
and you can be anywhere, and you are inside all things, and you affect them.
Remember that the solidity of the world is an illusion created by the speed at
which atoms oscillate. If they slowed down just a little, you'd be able to walk
through walls. In an out-of-body experience, you have consciousness inside a
subtle body that we believe weighs four grams. You can pass right through the
wall.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>In effect,
physical reality is both opaque and ethereal - just a collective feeling. It's
only by habit that you consider yourself solid. In a sense, you are a
collection of particles, transmuted from being in the solid-particle state of
physical existence to the more ethereal wave-state.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>In the
wave-state, you are an amorphous oscillation, existing at no particular place
in space or time, with no particular human definition. That wave state contains
your consciousness and can be driven by your force of will. Through it, you
have an immense potential to exert yourself on the etheric reality. The wave
can move, so you move. It's everywhere, so you can be everywhere."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list .75in'><![if !supportLists]><font size=2 color=black
face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:
Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:
Ignore'>n<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:black'>Stuart Wilde, Silent Power <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>I think this is to say, one does it with
the subtle influence of rippling action.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>Empower oneself and the possibility that others will do the same becomes
more likely. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>There are few
things more threatening to those who would close space around us than people
who have opened space within. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>And
there are few things in the world more inspiring to me.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>In </span></font><st1:PersonName><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Open Space</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";color:black'>, my practice of facilitation is rooted very much in
understanding what is open and what is closed for me. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I address the self-critic that gnaws away
inside me.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I ask myself questions,
like the ones Byron Katie poses to test my limits and assumptions.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>My aim is to arrive at the point when I
ring my bells in a place that is centered, grounded, empowered and inviting.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>If I can be there, then I can walk the
circle and point out the principles and the Law, and be a conduit for the
invitation that the sponsor has issued.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>Then it’s over to the people, and my role becomes one of holding
space, like the pillars in a vaulted chamber. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I try to keep things open, pushing back a
little at those who would close things down.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>And if people come to me with questions
or statements or needs, I ask the two immortal questions introduced to me by </span></font><st1:PersonName><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Michael Herman</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";color:black'>:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>“What do you really want to do?”
and “Fine, why don’t you take care of it?”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>I find that these two questions form a
practice that does more to hold space open than anything. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>If I can’t ask these questions
without residual feelings of “I should do this…” then I can’t
truly sit in the quiet, inviting place that is necessary for empowerment to happen
around me and without me.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The
moment I think I can do things better, especially when it comes to meeting
someone else’s stated needs, is the moment I lose my power, and the
moment I close their space down a little.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>So for me it’s a quantum
thing.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Keep the possibilities
always open.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Meegwetch!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'>Chris<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>PS<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Sorry I keep generating these long replies.
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I seem to be on a roll.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>---<br>
CHRIS CORRIGAN<br>
Consultation - Facilitation<br>
</span></font><st1:PersonName><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
mso-no-proof:yes'>Open Space</span></font></st1:PersonName><font size=2><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'> Technology<br>
<br>
</span></font><st1:place><st1:City><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
mso-no-proof:yes'>Bowen Island</span></font></st1:City><font size=2><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>, </span></font><st1:State><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>BC</span></font></st1:State><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>, </span></font><st1:country-region><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>Canada</span></font></st1:country-region></st1:place><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'><br>
<a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com">http://www.chriscorrigan.com</a><br>
chris@chriscorrigan.com</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST [mailto:</span></font><st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Ashley Cooper<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, February 18, 2003
5:52 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> </span></font><st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> opening
space...empowerment and motivation</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Maiandra GD"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Maiandra GD"'>amongst these amazing discussions presently taking
place on this list (for which i deeply borrow and say the word john introduced,
meegwetch.), i would like to ask anyone's opinion on a present struggle of my
own. my question is more of an open space question than an OS question! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Maiandra GD"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Maiandra GD"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Maiandra GD"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Maiandra GD"'>i am a beginning graduate student studying
counseling (in route to play therapy). in our introductory course we must
choose one theory that "defines" our style (that in itself is a
little bit scary for me - why can't i use the good parts of them all!!).
these discussions of motivation and empowerment further challenge me to
question how does one genuinely attempt to open the space for one other person?
to, excuse me for saying it, but empower another to enter their own space? to
help create an environment that allows space for another's power to grow? any
suggestions?!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Maiandra GD"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Maiandra GD"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Maiandra GD"'>thanks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Maiandra GD"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Maiandra GD"'>ashley cooper<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Maiandra GD"'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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