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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Cyr" size=2>Harrison, when you unexpectedly spilled the
phrase 1/2way technology I understood that to mean that it gets us only part of
the way. Great ideas are generated, probably great plans, but OST by itself is
no guarantor that the "planned" change will happen. It was as if you were
hinting that maybe the next step is another technology, maybe like OST or a
logical extension of it that takes us all the way, something that allows us to
be the planned change already. That's the letdown that I think some feel who
have participated in OST: maybe there's Herbalife-like excitement (indeed one
Russian colleague compared the excitement generated by OST with the worked up
state of those who have gotten into selling Herbalife products; for those who
are unfamiliar with Herbalife, it's a multi-level marketing scheme. Curiously,
after putting down OST, a year or so later he admitted it indeed has value.) Or
does such a technology already exist and I/we are not aware of it?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>OST has helped me see that the answers are inside all of us
already, it's about phrasing the question right.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I was vindicated recently. A colleague of mine who runs an NGO
that runs victim-offender mediation programs participated in an OS I had written
about. I ran an OS for his wife's NGO, which deals with teenagers
with substance abuse issues. He was not at the OS in the beginning, came late.
But he was full of irony about the technology: "what a great job. You just walk
in, announce the space is open, you sit around. then pronounce the space closed
and get paid for it."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Later I learned he did see the value of OST (he did not share
this with me directly) and plans on using OS at an international restorative
justice conference to be held in Moscow in June...This will be an opportunity
for everyone to at least spend a little time discussing other issues at the
conference. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>He has scheduled 2 1/2 hours for this OS, to be held
towards the end of the conference. The rest of the multi-day conference will be
in traditional format, with plenaries and other assorted (yawn) old paradigm
goodies.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I am curious, those who have scheduled or seen mini-OS's
within a larger event, how necessary do you think it is to necessarily do the
whole circle walk, attention to breath, and other things to open the space? Is
it necessarily to even sit in a circle? My hunch is if people have already
worked together for more than a day that the space is already open. I have
already participated in a fully open OS before within a multi-day conference
(this was with Intertraining, the professional association of trainers and
consultants that Michael Pannewitz and Jo Toepfer trained in OST. Almost
everyone had at least participated in an OS, if they hadn't led one
already.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Sending circles of clarity from a cool and overcast
Moscow,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Raffi (Aftandelian)</FONT></DIV>
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