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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do stories have us, or do we have/tell stories? The
assumptions we have -that the expert/ state/ guru figure - knows what is
going on and can figure out what to do next - is our current story - for
many of us. It is so deeply embedded - most of the time - that it is an
assumption through which we look at the world - not an assumption that we see or
aware of. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>An OST based event can provide an experience of
another way of being, and potentially the basis for a new story. It can be a
'peak experience' for many participants. Yet, I am struck by the parallels to
other kinds of developmental growth, including spiritual practice. Unless there
is some kind of ongoing practice, some kind of slow polishing of the vehicle
which is doing the experiencing, then the peak experience fades to a memory, and
the weight of the old stories takes over. And of course, the more this practice
takes place in a 'community of practice' - for us this might be this
listserve - the greater can be its effectiveness.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So that leads me to ask, what can we do to support
such ongoing practice, and the development of a new story that seems to be
emerging? One way is with clients and each other - before and after a OST
meeting, using congruent tools, using methods that open space for people in a
variety of ways [small o - small s]..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Another of course is the daisy method; - enough
people open space enough times, critical mass is reached - and Poof! a new story
is acknowledged.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It sure isn't up to us to control it!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Meg Salter</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>MegaSpace Consulting<BR>(416) 486-6660<BR><A
href="mailto:meg@megsalter.com">meg@megsalter.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=chris@chriscorrigan.com href="mailto:chris@chriscorrigan.com">Chris
Corrigan</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 03, 2003 2:12
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: outcomes and one-off OSTs
and OSLIST</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You know
</SPAN></FONT><st1:place><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Harrison</SPAN></FONT></st1:place><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> is getting excited
when he starts writing in red ink and calling me
“Christ!!”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">But
</SPAN></FONT><st1:place><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Harrison</SPAN></FONT></st1:place><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> 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><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Here on the west
coast of </SPAN></FONT><st1:place><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">North
America</SPAN></FONT></st1:place><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, 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><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chris
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<DIV>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; mso-no-proof: yes">---<BR>CHRIS
CORRIGAN<BR></SPAN></FONT><st1:place><st1:City><FONT color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; mso-no-proof: yes">Bowen
Island</SPAN></FONT></st1:City><FONT color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; mso-no-proof: yes">,
</SPAN></FONT><st1:State><FONT color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; mso-no-proof: yes">BC</SPAN></FONT></st1:State><FONT
color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; mso-no-proof: yes">,
</SPAN></FONT><st1:country-region><FONT color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; mso-no-proof: yes">Canada</SPAN></FONT></st1:country-region></st1:place><FONT
color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; mso-no-proof: yes"><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><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; mso-no-proof: yes">(604)
947-9236<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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> </SPAN></FONT><st1:date Year="2003"
Day="3" Month="12"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Wednesday, December 03,
2003</SPAN></FONT></st1:date><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> </SPAN></FONT><st1:time
Minute="33" Hour="5"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">5:33
AM</SPAN></FONT></st1:time><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><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><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Christ
Wrote:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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 face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">have come from are changing and paradigms are coming
to rub against each<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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 face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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 face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">extreme example of that, in the world of
organizational development.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Other methods rely on facilitators or experts
(sometimes called<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">"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 face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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 face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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 face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">"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 face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">results from a process where the first step towards
making a safe place<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">for your babies is to smear the back of a turtle with
mud.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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 face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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 face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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 face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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 face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">"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 face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">really resonate with?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know my
answer.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=red size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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><FONT face="Courier New" color=red size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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><FONT face="Courier New" color=red size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: red"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=red size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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 face="Courier New" color=red size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: red"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=red size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: red">I love where we are headed! Go for
it!!!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=red size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: red"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><st1:place><FONT face="Courier New" color=red
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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 face="Courier New" color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV>*
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