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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Seems like you pretty well got it – and I am sure the
list will grow. One thing – since you like numbers -- group size has been
5-2108. Not that it makes much difference. And of course, if you were to publish
such a list anywhere but here on </span></font><st1:PersonName><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>OSLIST</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>, people doubtless would ask you
what you had been smoking. Which is always the problem when you say, as
accurately as you can – what seems to happen in <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Open Space. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place><span class=SpellE><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>harrison</span></font></span></st1:place><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><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 macrae<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><st1:date
Month="12" Day="9" Year="2003"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Tuesday, December 09, 2003</span></font></st1:date><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><st1:time
Hour="21" Minute="33"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>9:33 PM</span></font></st1:time><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;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> checklist of what open
space can do</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>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>I’d like
to have a checklist , as much as a conversation starter to try out with peers
(indeed anyone I come across) along the lines of did you know this miracle
exists? Don’t you want to try it once?<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 realise the following
needs editing and additions. All suggestions greatly welcome<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'>WHAT OPEN SPACE CAN DO<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=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Make the most use
of time and passion of everyone (usually 30 to 1000 people) who assembles over
2 to 3 day period because they want to progress some shared issue<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Dissolve barriers
between people so that leave mutually respecting each other<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Provide open
documentation of every meeting and issues surfaced for all to reflect on and
take forward<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Ready people to
network/practice community thereafter however far flung their geographical
connections<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Innovate in 2 days
what has often proved intractable in 2 years<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Experience a
heightening of spirit and communal collaboration that you may never have
encountered before<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Increase the
self-confidence of every participant, awaken the joy of focus<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Change the way you
feel meetings etc should be conducted in the future <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Demonstrate that
self-organising isn’t just practical but systemically provides
organisational advantages of an almost unprecedented nature<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Provides the simplest
methodology <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Involve the
participation of those most impacted by an issue, whatever their capabilities<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Take another look
at education at any level<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>SWOT conflict,
change forces and hierarchy as huge value transformation loci if one can
journey through them<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Provide an antidote
wherever professional disconnections have been compounded over time, or an
organisation has lost a common language or alignment to a deep purpose<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Yours sincerely<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Chris Macrae<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:
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