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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2>Hi all!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2>Harrison wrote</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>There is never a point to making people uncomfortable. And for sure if the
resources (chairs, flip charts etc) are available, certainly they should be
used. But as you noted above -- very little of all that is
<I>essential</I>. My questions are always -- What is possible? and What is
appropriate ? And I know from long experience (sorry for the "elder" statement)
that the people will not only survive -- but thrive. There is another
consideration: The more you do for somebody, the less they have to do for
themselves. I am by no means advocating being hard-nosed and nasty, but I have
often noted that adversity is often the mother of invention. Adversity can even
heighten and sharpen the experience. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>And here we are close together again:
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>It is very important to be aware what
is really <EM>essential</EM>. To know what to to keep carrefully in, anyway.
Würzburg for example showed, that it is <EM>not esssential</EM> to provide
chairs for this kind of folks. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>My philosophie from my work as
trainer-trainer always was "Never do, what people can do by themselves".
Sounds a little bit like your formula, isn't it?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>But we know, that one of the
conditions of self-organization is a "nutrient enviroment". And here we come
again to the question what is possible and appropriate in a certain context.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>For sure it <EM>would not been
appropriate</EM> to skip, for example, the catering supply for 2108,
though in my opinion catering is not essential to Open Space. People would
have survived one day without food easily, maybe a little uncomfortable, but
would have survived.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>So what is appropriate? It is
appropriate to leave the comfortzone and bring in challenges to stimulate people
to move by themselves. But </FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#800080
size=2>I would not support a philosophy of slimming down to nothing, without
looking at the circumstances</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Erich</FONT></DIV>
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