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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
class=370221210-04062003>Welcome Mike!<SPAN class=010521310-04062003> Hi
Helen!</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN class=370221210-04062003>I´ve been
on the journey for a few years and over here on the other side of the globe more
and more space is being opened. Although the vast majority are still jumping
the<SPAN class=010521310-04062003> wall:) there are more and more holes in
it. Good you sneaked out!</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN class=370221210-04062003><SPAN
class=010521310-04062003>Regards from Sweden</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN class=370221210-04062003><SPAN
class=010521310-04062003>Thomas</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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class=010521310-04062003> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Tahoma><FONT size=2>-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----<BR><B>Från:</B>
OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>För </B>Helen
Patterson<BR><B>Skickat:</B> den 4 juni 2003 00:50<BR><B>Till:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Ämne:</B> Re: The lights are
on!<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Mike</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here's the poem that sprung to me as I
read your story.....(poet unknown to me)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the kangaroo jumped the wall</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the wall of the zoo</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>my god that was high</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>my god that was good</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>With your big heart, generous spirit and the
best belly laugh I've heard in years you and OST can only journey richly
together generating harmony, wholeness, peace and fun in our
world.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Warm wishes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Helen</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:mcopeland@doc.govt.nz" title=mcopeland@doc.govt.nz>Mike
Copeland</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU"
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:39
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> The lights are on!</DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greetings All</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>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 face=Arial size=2>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 face=Arial size=2>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 face=Arial size=2>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 face=Arial size=2>Big question:</FONT></B> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>How do people survive the heirarchical structures we have out
there?</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>How do people live with/out open
space in their own lives?</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now I'm on this trail I really don't want to be
living and working in any other way.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>All the best</FONT> <BR><B><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Mike Copeland</FONT></B> <BR><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" size=2> </FONT> </P><BR><BR>
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