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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Greetings All</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I feel I've been a voyeur of your amazing sharings and learning's over the past three months and feel it is time to launch into cyber space with my experience of this Open Space stuff.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I work as an environmental educator with communities and have realised my need for better facilitation skills for a little while now. I duly trained in Open Space with Helen Patterson in early March this year. Since then I have opened space three times. Little has prepared me for the change that is currently taking place with myheart, my head and<B> eyes!</B>. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Everywhere I look I see space opening and closing! I have a name for that awful feeling I have when I see my contribution getting systematically picked to pieces and given back to me in tatters; conversely I have a name for when people truly act with integrity.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I used to think I was a great facilitatator, could read a group, could intervene just at the right moment, could hold it together under huge adversity...; I can tell you I was tired! </FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Big question:</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">How do people survive the heirarchical structures we have out there?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">How do people live with/out open space in their own lives?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Now I'm on this trail I really don't want to be living and working in any other way.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">All the best</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Mike Copeland</FONT></B>
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