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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle18><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>When my intention is to
contribute to transformation on any scale, I look at what I can do to be a
contributing condition for its emergence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>If transformation is a self-organizing process, it comes about through
the synergy of our individual contributions: no one makes it possible.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>From no thing comes every thing.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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color:#003300'>thanks</span></font><font color="#003300"><span
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style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;color:#660033'>Jack Ricchiuto </span></font><font
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>-----Original
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<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> Saturday, March 01, 2003
9:18 AM<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: Request for Proposal</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>At 09:29 PM 2/28/2003
+0100, Michael Pannwitz 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=3 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Transformation happens fairly independent
of the will of the people<br>
or the will of an organisation.<br>
I have not experienced people or organisations "will" transformation<br>
as little as I have seen people or organisations doing grief work.<br>
What I have seen is people and organisations navigate in<br>
transformation and that grief works.<br>
So my way of putting it would be<br>
"I believe I can attempt to hold time and space for people to<br>
navigate transformation"</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=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><br>
My feelings precisely. Ever since we invented the notion of Organization
Transformation, back in the early '80s -- there has been an ongoing debate.
Some of my colleagues felt that Transformation was something you
"did" to an organization -- as in "We will transform our
organization." Lots of folks made much effort to achieve all that, but
frankly I have never been convinced. <br>
<br>
For me Transformation (of whatever sort) is something that happens. Indeed it
has been happening for at least 13.7 billion years -- in short for a long time
before we ever put in an appearance. And truthfully, it has done quite well
without our help. But there are some rough points, for sure. It seems that
Transformation inevitably requires the ending of one form as a new forms
appear. The word "ending" has a nice neutral tone to it -- but we
experience it as death or dying. Not a nice thing. But we do have a way of
dealing with all that pain and destruction, and it is called Griefwork. And we
didn't invent that either. And so from where I sit, the fundamental engines of
transformation (self-organization and Griefwork) operate, have operated, and
continue to operate with, or without, our permission. But we can certainly help
along the way. And here Michael's words, </span></font><font color=red><span
style='color:red'>"I believe I can attempt to hold time and space for
people to navigate transformation" </span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>hit the nail exactly on the head, as far as I am concerned.
<br>
<br>
All of this has more than an academic ring to it for me at the moment. One more
time our world is transforming. It is a given (and I really think it is a
"given") that people will die, along with ways of life, businesses,
and probably countries. Some of it is pathetically funny, particularly the rank
arrogance of my President, who seems to think he is in charge. We may all end
up on a charred piece of solar driftwood, otherwise knows as planet Earth. That
would definitely be an ending -- and also a transformation. At such a time, it
may be useful to remember that the demise of planet Earth has been in the cards
since the moment of its creation. And if we don't do it do it to ourselves, it
will happen anyhow, perhaps the unintended consequence of a close encounter of
the cataclysmic sort should a wandering asteroid bump into us. But no matter
the outcome, Michael's words constitute useful counsel. </span></font><font
color=red><span style='color:red'>"I believe I can attempt to hold time
and space for people to navigate transformation"<br>
<br>
</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>I think this is what
we all can do. It is certainly my mission of the moment.<br>
<br>
Harrison<br>
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