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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Christ Wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I think we are in a time when our stories about who we are and where we<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>have come from are changing and paradigms are coming to rub against
each<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>other in deep ways.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>OST is
a process predicated on the fact that all of<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>us can have a hand in creating the new world.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It is nearly the very<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>extreme example of that, in the world of organizational development.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Other methods rely on facilitators or experts (sometimes called<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>"management gurus" which isn't far from being gods) to come
in and fix<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>things, banish the bad and tinker with the good.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It's easy to see<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>results when evil is banished.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>That is a tangible step towards the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>"better world" demanded by cynics.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It's much harder to see tangible<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>results from a process where the first step towards making a safe place<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>for your babies is to smear the back of a turtle with mud.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>At any rate, I hope what I am saying makes sense.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>We operate out of<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>deeply held stories about creation and renewal.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Where we come into<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>conflict with one another it feels dissonant but we can't put our
finger<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>on why.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I'm suggesting that
some of the dissonance we feel from<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>"results" people is at a fundamental level.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I mean, which story do you<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>really resonate with?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>You
know my answer.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=red face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>Chris – you have certainly moved the
discussion in what I would consider to be wonderful new territory. There is no
question in my mind that we are – to a very large extent – the stories
we tell. Not the trivial little tales that appear in the morning newspapers,
but the deep stories <span class=GramE>that constitute</span> our mythic
consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=red face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><br>
There used to be a day when the power of these deep stories was appreciated,
but in recent times they are dismissed with the light thought that they are “just
a story.” And of course we all know that only the “facts”
will do. And when it comes to myths, these are not only dismissed, but <span
class=SpellE>dissed</span>. Worse than a story, myth now means lie and
falsehood. <span class=GramE>How the world changes.</span> And of course, for
enlightened people such as ourselves, we have long since thrown off the bondage
of myth. How sad. And we never really do – throw it off, that is. We
simply develop new ones, and they of course, are understood to be The Truth, or
better yet Scientific Truth. But it is still a story, now dressed up in
different clothes. We call them “Theories” – but at the end
of the day, these Theories are simply likely stories which help us interpret
our world. So our essential nature hasn’t changed – we are still
story tellers whose life expectations are shaped by the stories we tell. <span
class=GramE>Myth by any other name.</span> What is different now is that the
formative power of these tales is somehow out of our awareness. And when the
stories are warped, distorted or partial – the world and our space in
that world is distorted and shrunk. Of course, we could tell a different story.
. .<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=red face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=red face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>And I think that new story creation is a
major part of what happens in Open Space. But it is not so much telling a story
as being a story. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=red face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=red face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>I love where we are headed! Go for it!!!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=red face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:place><font size=2 color=red face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>Harrison</span></font></st1:place><font
color=red><span style='color:red'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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