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Under the heading of stories and comments from "2108" -- the
following comes from Albrech Mahr, who along with his wife Brirgitte,
sponsored and organized the event. Added to all the wonderful
pictures we have been viewing and we seem to be developing
something like a "case study." God Help us. We could turn into
proper academics. <br><br>
Harrison<br><br>
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Until the very last moments before the beginning I was not sure how it
would be <br>
accepted by the participants given the fact that it was not a strictly
<br>
typical OS, i.e. there was not one single highly controversial issue to
be <br>
solved. But that fact did not de-energize the OS field into a
noncommittal <br>
"whatever anybody suits" place but rather into a multilevel /
multifocal <br>
space for expressing and sharing much of the huge amount of input and
<br>
experience of the 3 previous days of the conference. We talked to many,
<br>
many people and we got even more email feedback - all of it very, very
<br>
positive and even enthusiastic about the rich possibilities to stay
<br>
together for one day, digest, process and express all the experience and
<br>
ideas and creating new perspectives. For some of the participants the OS
<br>
was exactly what it historically meant to be: a big, creative, relaxing
and <br>
yet beautifully meaningful coffee break which could only make sense
within <br>
the togetherness of the whole conference, within mankind as one
participant <br>
put it.<br>
For me it is an encouraging experinec to re-shape the classical
conference <br>
format into the first part of working, learning etc and the second part
of <br>
playfully-committedly<br>
making a personal meaning out of the conference in close connection with
my <br>
human fellows.<br><br>
Dr. Albrecht Mahr, Brigitte Mahr<br>
Institut for Systems Constellations<br>
Mittlerer Dallenbergweg 37 a<br>
D-97082 Wuerzburg<br>
Phone 0049-931-7840100<br>
Email: a.u.b.mahr@t-online.de<br>
<a href="http://www.mahrsteme.de/" eudora="autourl">www.mahrsteme.de</a><br><br>
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<div align="center">Harrison Owen<br>
7808 River Falls Drive<br>
Potomac, MD 20854 USA<br>
phone 301-365-2093<br>
Open Space Training
<a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com/" eudora="autourl">www.openspaceworld.com</a>
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Open Space Institute <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/" eudora="autourl">www.openspaceworld.org</a><br>
Personal website <a href="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF">http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm</a><br><br>
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