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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Hello, Andrea –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>I have used Open Space for, for example,
strategic planning for a Catholic diocese – everyone from the top clergy
to participants in the youth program <span class=GramE>were</span>
invited.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I have also done the same for
an Episcopal church, and so on.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Your questions are great.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I’ll try to answer some here – if
you / your client needs to I can share with you the emails of some of my church
clients so they can talk together directly about power dynamics and so on. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The answers are the same for the faith
community as for any community I have worked in with Open Space:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>1. If the participants do not know much about O.S. in
advance, they can bring up a topic, but can they take responsibility for their
topic if they did not have the chance to prepare for that topic?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Anyone can take
responsibility for inviting / beginning a conversation.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Their job is not to control or to provide all
the answers on that topic – sometimes it is just a question that they
bring to begin the discussion.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Their
responsibility is not to know and prepare, but – if they feel called to
do so - to invite others to share their own wisdom and experience.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>A prepared presentation would be just that –
a presentation, which is not what this is about.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It is about a coming together for new
thinking and trusting that the right people are also drawn to this topic.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Emerging thought is very nutritious for Open Space;
prepared thinking can often begin things in the way we have always thought
about them (hence, the same results we always get).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>2. The Law of Two Feet can give you the chance to
"step out" of those situations, which seem to be awkward and
problematic but if you are brave enough and stay there, maybe you can solve
your problems. Isn't it dangerous to step out of each situation which we find
at first sight uncomfortable or <span class=GramE>boring.</span> Maybe it is
just the temptation to escape and avoid something.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>It is never dangerous to
take good care of yourself.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The Law of
Two Feet says if you are neither learning nor contributing, move to where you
are most needed or best served. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>There
are a lot of nutritious things going on in the room and your best work is
needed.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Or it is time to refresh
yourself so you can be more focused in the next conversation.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>This is all serving the greater good of the
group.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Delightfully, people stay in a
group and break through to understanding…or they leave to continue being
productive.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Both are incredibly helpful
to the process and to the work of the group.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>3. Have you ever participated in an O.S. in religious
context? What was your experience?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>I have used OS in strategic
planning, including when there has been great diversity and great conflict
about the direction of the church, conflict about interpretations of what the
church should do, how ritual and prayer should be and so on, to re-engage the
church members in the work of the church rather than have them wait for some
high-up decision maker or special word to arrive to get things done; to have
full participation from the constituency no matter what the ages, languages, or
cultural experiences or positions on how the faith should be practiced within
the church.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>4. Many religious people expect guidance from the
church. But in an O.S. everybody can bring up topics and there is no guidance.
IN a religious context people need spiritual guidance, they want to be filled
with words and want to be supported. How can O.S. work for these <span
class=GramE>type</span> of people?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Many of the people I have worked with in
faith communities have an understanding of a greater being, a greater wisdom. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Breath and prayer or <span class=GramE>meditation
are</span> some ways of breathing in this greater wisdom.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>In OS participants receive guidance from –
well, however they understand it – deep within themselves or from the
whole – both often are also interpretations of the Spirit or the god they
believe in.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>As people of faith, they
usually understand that they are doing God’s work. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Indeed, there is great guidance and support –
from that Spirit, if they so believe.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>When working with a faith community we often
start the Open Space with a prayer for the work we are about to do and also
often a song in that same theme – my clients have on occasion written
special prayers for the planning (or whatever they are there to do) process. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>In some situations for example at night the
youth groups stay in the Open Space room to play music from their church for
anyone to join.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The work and culture of
the church infuses the Open Space – they are not separate.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Hope that <span class=GramE>helps,</span>
let me know if you need to play more thoughts back and forth,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Cheers from my </span></font><st1:City><st1:place><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Berkeley</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>
garden to you in </span></font><st1:City><st1:place><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Budapest</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>,
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Lisa<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>H e f t<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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