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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Mike</FONT></DIV>
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<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>
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<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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<A title=mcopeland@doc.govt.nz href="mailto:mcopeland@doc.govt.nz">Mike
Copeland</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:39
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<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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