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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have been lurking here for several weeks and I feel like I
am on the slip road traveling at about 20 mph trying to join the motorway
moving at 70 mph. How can I get up to speed? I live in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:City>, have worked in
marketing. I am currently working in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Ireland</st1:place></st1:country-region> most of the time and am
moving into broader kinds of cultural and process change work for
organisations. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have been enjoying in wonder the mixture of chaos and
mutual respect, the openness, honesty and consideration. It feels very
much like a Community Building Scott Peck type circle. I am involved with
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Community</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType>
in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region> and we help
people to organize <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Community</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> circles to
experience Psuedo Community, Chaos, Emptiness and Community. We have used
Open Space a lot in our process to introduce tasks as well as enable a wider
process. I have facilitated a few open space events and hope to be
involved with many more. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>When I first started doing Open Space the only rule –
the Law of 2 Feet - was against the guidelines of CB. In CB we tell
ourselves we have to stay and ‘see it through’. If one person
leaves it changes the whole dynamic of the group. Of course we are always
free to walk from anything at any time. Here it is even more ambiguous –
we don’t really know who is here, or who may be here at some point in the
future. And writing things down fixes them in a ‘closed’ way –
I may change my mind about what I wrote today when I look again tomorrow.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In joining this group I want to empty myself of the need to
heal any of you. Yet I am sure that many of us are here trying to heal by
listening. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Colin Morley<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>www.empowermentillustrated.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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