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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>CHRIS Wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You know </span></font><st1:place><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Harrison</span></font></st1:place><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> is
getting excited when he starts writing in red ink and calling me
“Christ!!”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Right On! Baby – but
don’t let it go to your head. Unless you are willing to move on with the
Walking-On-Water stuff – and better yet . . . Turning water into wine.
And in the meantime I think what you are doing here is wonderful. And I will
rejoin the discussion when I stop laughing.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>ho<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Chris Corrigan<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, December 03, 2003
2:13 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: outcomes and one-off
OSTs and OSLIST</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You know Harrison is
getting excited when he starts writing in red ink and calling me
“Christ!!”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’ve been pondering
Judi and Lisa’s statements about loving the event-based OST even though
we know it could be better, and I have to admit that even though I tried to
come across as getting tired of them, I like them a lot too.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I was trying to figure out WHY I like
them though and wondered if it wasn’t just me…a fatal trap for a
facilitator, to meet his own needs through a pet process, and so this had me a
little worried…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>But Harrison put some
words around it – gave me the story in fact – and so I realize now
that the reason I love opening space at all is that it really does invite an
organization or a community to embody a new story about itself - or to
rediscover very old ones.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>This is really important
in a lot of the places I work.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>In
indigenous communities and other places where colonialism has done its work,
the story of how and what we should be is so deeply informed by the colonial
culture that it is very rare that an Aboriginal organization or community
actually gets to embody and manifest an identity that is NOT constrained by the
colonial story.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>In our communities
of course this is most visibly seen by the way local First Nations governments
organize community meetings by setting the room up as if it is a school room,
with the experts at the front and the masses in rows of chairs.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Even if the government is trying to
embody an inclusive style by holding consultative meetings with the community,
I often wonder if the form of the meeting, the process itself is doing more
harm than good.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>And when the
subject of the meeting has something to do with the recovery of our cultural
resources, or land rights or something else that is so closely aligned to
indigenous identity, then it school-room type public meetings become almost too
painfully ironic for me.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>As groups working in Open
Space, we get to try out a new story, and this is largely the process benefit
of the one-off or event-based OST meeting.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>I realize now that I usually close these meetings by inviting people to
notice how the quality of the room has changed, how relationships have changed,
how the same people we looked at in the opening circle suddenly seem different
after only a few hours together.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>The people haven’t changed of course, but our stories about them
and about how we can relate to them, have changed.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It’s nice to leave people with a
question in their minds about how that change took place and how easy it might
be to recreate it.. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In that sense OST is a
powerful tool for decolonization and healing in our communities…that has
largely been my experience.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Some
people fall into OST like it’s a feather bed…they just seem to
enfold themselves in the dynamics. Others find it hard going, and some hate the
process.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>And still others, and I
count many of the “results-based” cynics among them, change and
transform and open their eyes to new possibility.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Here on the west coast of
North America, many indigenous communities have stories of transformation.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>You may have seen elaborate
transformation masks that feature one animal splitting in two and another
coming forward.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Those new creatures
come forward fully formed from within the original being.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The dances and stories that accompany
these masks talk about a time in the world when animals and spirits and humans
could change easily from one form to another.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It is a reminder of both the
interrelated nature of all beings and the ancestral time, when these happened
regularly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>For me too though it is
also a reminder that the story of transformation lives very powerfully in these
communities and cultures.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Whenever
we talk about transformation here on the coast, I invite these stories and see
what they can offer us about transformation of our organizations and ways of
doing things and perspectives about work, results and process.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Recovery of these tools and stories is
critical to recovering authentic expressions of community and organizations
that nestle naturally within the indigenous context.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Because after all, at a very deep level,
indigenous cultures and world views are still here and still alive although
they may be glazed over by the patina of a century or more of contact, sharing
and transcendence.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Open Space invites us to
go deep and rediscover the foundations that inform all of our process work and
which, in the end, does get results.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>We can foreground parts of the contemporary story that help us do work
and make things “get results”, and we can also choose to foreground
the stories that show us how we live in relation to one another and how all of
our lives are dependant on those connections. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Chris <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy;mso-no-proof:yes'>---<br>
CHRIS CORRIGAN<br>
Bowen Island, BC, Canada<br>
<a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com">http://www.chriscorrigan.com</a><br>
<a href="mailto:chris@chriscorrigan.com">chris@chriscorrigan.com</a></span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy;mso-no-proof:yes'>(604) 947-9236<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Harrison Owen<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, December 03, 2003
5:33 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: outcomes and one-off
OSTs and OSLIST</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><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 that constitute our
mythic consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><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 dissed. Worse than a story, myth now means lie and falsehood.
How the world changes. 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. Myth by any other name. 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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>Harrison <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><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 style='margin-left:.5in'><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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