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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>That is brilliant Christine. I shall
remember to carry my shit high because if I don’t it can start to stink and may
go off boom.<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'>Best wishes<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'>Colin Morley<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Christine Whitney Sanchez<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 28 April 2004 19:22<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: Can we be space
invaders ?? - similar experiences</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=teal face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:teal'>Dear Marei,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=teal face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:teal'>I especially
appreciate you sharing your own self-reflective process. My own hidden
agendas have often come to light when I realize that I've been
encouraging the sponsor(s) to invite a "more inclusive"
group. More is not always better. Whoever comes...</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=teal face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:teal'>Open Space work
has certainly gone a long way to keeping me honest about my own biases.
Reminds me of a bit of trivia I just received about one of our favorite
English/American expressions:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'>In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by
ship. <br>
It was also before commercial fertilizer's invention, so large shipments of
manure were common.<br>
<br>
It was shipped dry, because in that form it weighed a lot less than when wet,
but once water at sea hit it, it not only became heavier, but the process of
fermentation began again, of which a by-product is methane gas.<br>
<br>
As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did)
happen. Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came
below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!<br>
<br>
Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what
was happening.<br>
<br>
After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the term "Ship
High In Transit" on them which meant for the sailors to stow it high
enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not
touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.<br>
<br>
Thus evolved the term "S.H.I.T," which has come down through the
centuries and is in use to this very day.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=teal face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:teal'>Might this also
speak to what we all need to do with our shit - ship high (be transparent -
reveal your own stuff) in transit (as we journey to new lands together :-) ?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><i><font size=3 color=teal face="Viner Hand ITC"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Viner Hand ITC";color:teal;font-style:
italic'>Christine</span></font></i></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color=teal face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:teal'>Christine Whitney Sanchez<br>
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<p><em><i><font size=2 color=purple face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:purple'>Invoking the
wisdom and capacity of the human spirit! </span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><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>Marei Kiele<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 28, 2004
4:05 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: Can we be space
invaders ?? - similar experiences</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Dear Gerard,</span></font><br>
<br>
<font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>back
on the web after three weeks off I am overwhelmed by some 300 postings to be
read. And more and more are coming in each day. I started answering your mail
before I left but didn't have the chance to send it any more. Sorry for my
being late - but I decide to write late better than not at all - loving your
idea of sharing our mistakes, ups, our learnings ;-)</span></font><br>
<br>
<font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Opposite
to <st1:place w:st="on">Harrison</st1:place> I agree with you. So if I believed
in the idea of space invaders (which for me is a theoratical construction I
don't like very much - who decides when space is invaded and when not?) I'd say
you did invade - I guess already by asking the question. Questions open. But on
the other hand they lead (in german we have this saying: "Wer fragt, der
führt" = "who is asking is leading"). And should not the
participants of an open space be their own leaders?</span></font><br>
<br>
<font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>You
wrote:</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>"If
there would be a good reason for this to happen, what would that reason be
??"</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>and
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>"Why
invading the space was the only thing this facilitator could do ?"</span></font><br>
<br>
<font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>One
of the many possible good reasons (and of course there was one) could have been
that the facilitator felt so connected with the pain or the fear he witnessed
that he couldn't wait till they found their own problem-serving-strategy. And
as you said: He was totally convinced to serve the system.</span></font><br>
<br>
<font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Thank
you for sharing. I like your two questions very much and find them very helpful
for accepting what I or others are doing.</span></font><br>
<br>
<font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Will
you be solving the riddle one day?</span></font><br>
<br>
<font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>With
love,</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Marei</span></font><br>
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<font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>PS:
I tried to escape without my own share - but opened up this posting before
sending it out. Here it comes:</span></font><br>
<br>
<font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Facilitating
a prepatory-meeting some weeks ago I tried to convince the planing-commitee to
invite additional people by saying "I as a facilitator would
include...". First I thought this was only because of my being attached to
the outcome and my fearing the group might be to small for finding out the
suitable theme. And later I took a deeper look into myself and discovered a
second reason: I had prefered doing something else on the date we fixed and by
including these new people the date would have been defered. And I didn't want
to let go of my other plans without being sure the prep-meeting was going to be
sucessful.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Fortunately
they stayed to their own intention, we meet in a small group on the agreed-upon
date and had a wonderful meeting (with conflict inside the group showing up and
all the timetable going down the tubes me doing nothing but witnessing...). </span></font><br>
<br>
<font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>In
the end it's been a great experience and learning-opportunity for me. And the
group was satisfied with my work, too.</span></font><br>
<br>
<font size=2 color="#0000a0" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#0000A0'>Anybody else out there with similar
experiences?</span></font><br>
<br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Marei</span></font><br>
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<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>"Harrison Owen"
<hhowen@comcast.net> schrieb:</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> I guess I see your action less as
"invading the space" than as "opening the</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> space." The significant thing
to me is that you posed a question ("What is</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> the most important topic we have
forgotten?"). In my experience, questions</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> open space. Statements close it. We
see this happening every time we open</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> space with something like --
"What are the issues and opportunities (fill in</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> the blank)?" I think the
atmosphere would be radically different were we to</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> begin with a statement. And then
when you "let go the arms of the chair" You</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> offered a choice -- again another
question.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> I see my major role as facilitator
in terms of keeping the space open, even</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> when that becomes quite
uncomfortable. Ordinarily this can be done without</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> saying a word -- just be present
and open yourself. I don't have a clue how</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> this works, but I have seen it happen
again and again. The folks get stuck,</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> and I just sit there. I suppose
they are expecting that I will "fix it" --</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> but I just hang in there as a
witness to the unasked question(s). Most times</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> I don't even know what the question
is -- most particularly when the</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> operative language is one I don't
understand. But there do come times when</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> some more overt word or action
seems to be called for -- but only after</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> being a silent witness for longer
than you can bare. It is a dangerous call,</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> for it is quite likely that things
are going on beneath the surface in ways</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> that you (I) will never understand.
God forbid that you jump in with an</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> answer (statement) just as the
folks are figuring it all out for themselves.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> But with a question, there are
choices, and if you have misperceived the</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> situation I find that the folks
just smile at your lack of cultural</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> awareness. Humbling for sure, but
not fatal.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> <st1:place w:st="on">Harrison</st1:place></span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Harrison Owen</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">7808 River Falls Drive</st1:address></st1:Street></span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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w:st="on">Potomac</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Maryland</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">20845</st1:PostalCode></st1:place></span></font><br>
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<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> From: OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Gerard</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Muller</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:47
AM</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> To: OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Subject: Can we be space invaders
??</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> In one of the Open Spaces I
facilitated seven years ago I featured as a</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> space invader.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> It took me a long time to begin to
look at it that way, so here it is.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> The client was a national
association, the issue an internal conflict -</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> basically concerning the interface
between the national Board of the</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> organization and the regional ones.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> The chairman opened and clearly
stated the issue, ending with something</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> like:</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> "I am convinced that if we do
not solve this issue together, our</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> organization could die.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Help us resolve it
"</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> And everyone involved was there.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Plenty of topics on the agenda.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Not a single one directly related
to the central issue - as far as I</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> could see.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> After half an hour, the first
participant came and complained "The most</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> important topic is not on</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> the agenda !". So I suggested
he might put it there. "No, I am not the</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> right person to do this".</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Number 2, 3 and 4 came. Same story.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> To number five I said "you are
the fifth who tells me you need this</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> topic but that you are not the
right person to put it there, I wonder</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> why ?".</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> More followed.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> By lunch time, the situation was
unchanged.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Instead of continuing to do what I
was doing, I made a sign posted where</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> all would pass by when returning
from lunch saying "What is the most</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> important topic we have forgotten
?".</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Right after lunch, someone posted
the missing topic (at the time I</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> thought I had "helped",
little did I know).</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Everybody had soon left all other
discussions and 70 participants were</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> talking in a room I never had
though could contain so many people.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Something important was clearly
going on there.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> But it was the closing circle that
really got me.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> The first person said "I am
quite willing to say what I have to say, but</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> only if the National Board promises
to take me seriously"</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> The second one said "I will
speak, but only if everyone else promises to</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> speak"</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> I could not help myself. I felt all
that had been achieved was at risk</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> of going down the drain again.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> So I forgot to hold on to the
armrests of my chair and invaded the</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> space.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> "This morning your chairman
asked your help to solve a problem. If you</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> choose to continue this way, you
might be back where you started from.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Or you could choose to do something
else".</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> I sat down again. It seemed like
140 angry eyes looked at me. There was</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> a silence.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Then, there was a constructive
closing.</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> I really like the principle
"Whatever happens......" .</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> I have come to develop a habit that
if something happens which really</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> should not have (given my
expectations, statistics, what have you) to</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> ask myself "If there would be
a good reason for this to happen, what</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> would that reason be ??</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> So what is your guestimate as to
why invading the space was the only</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> thing this facilitator could do ?</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Similar experiences ?</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Greetings from Svenmark,</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Gerard Muller</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Open Space Institute <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Denmark</st1:place></st1:country-region></span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> Phone (+45) 21269621</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> gm@openspace.dk</span></font><br>
<font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>> </span></font><br>
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