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At 12:49 PM 6/24/2003 +1200, <font size=2>Mike Copeland</font>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font size=2>I'm finding open space
has hit me right between the eyes in the last four months. I'm taking
initiative wherever I want to lately and am not waiting for permission;
wherever that was meant to come from anyway! I'm actually doing what I
want to do. Is that OK? I mean I thought I was meant to do eveything I
didn't want to do! <br>
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<font size=2>The big thing is I'm not intervening anymore. Getting out of
the way is so freeing. I feel all my life I've been trained to get IN the
way! Although I do miss out on that exhausted feeling.<br>
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<font size=2>I know this may sound like I'm a babbling convert here, but
quite honestly if this is living open space long may it
continue.</font></blockquote><br>
Sounds like you have it right -- to me. But then what else could I say
given my reply to Raffi Aftandelian (above) ? If it is true that life is
all about self-organization, as is Open Space, when you remember what you
already are, it feels great. Certainly much better than pretending to be
something you are not???? Of course, it doesn't always feel great.
Sometimes the great hooded monsters of Chaos, Confusion, and Conflict
rear their ugly heads, and things can get downright unpleasant, made even
more so if we take it as a personal insult because they are not following
our plan.<br><br>
Harrison <br><br>
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