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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=356525100-06082004>Hello
Phil,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=356525100-06082004>I
don't have any answers for most of your questions, but just an observation from
that name-tagged Open Space that the photos are from (the Practice of Peace
on Whidbey Island last year). A part of that experience which was very
striking to me was how many people who didn't know each other (yet) looked
each other in the eyes & greeted each other by name right from the first
evening, even when, for example, just crossing paths in the hallways, and
how people referenced one another by name when responding to
comments during the sessions. (Important point: the nametags were printed
in letters that were actually big enough to read from a little distance, so that
you <EM>could</EM> look each other in the eyes when you got closer, and you
could read someone's name from across a room)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=356525100-06082004>But at
most conferences I've attended, there are almost always nametags--and no
one really uses them. </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=356525100-06082004>So, for me, the way the nametags at the Practice
of Peace were used was more of a reflection of what was created by being in Open
Space with the particular people who showed up--the tags were just a tiny
aspect, but a really nice tiny aspect.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=356525100-06082004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=356525100-06082004>Christy Lee-Engel</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=356525100-06082004>Seattle</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2><SPAN class=356525100-06082004></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Phil
Culhane [mailto:pculhane@magma.ca] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 05, 2004
4:56 PM<BR><B>To:</B> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B>
nametags?<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
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<DIV><SPAN class=234065903-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Name
tags? In Open Space?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234065903-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Sorry...I just took a close look at the photos, and I see name
tags?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234065903-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234065903-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>In
my work, I often have people from wildly differing places on the org chart
sitting in the same circle...with no nametags, everyone is an equal - a
carbon-based life form, sharing a common passion. I have never used nametags
just to keep that equality. A data entry clerk has as much validity as an ADM
(and I had the two sitting side by side recently), but knowing who's who could
distract? Although the control freaks want to go around the circle with
introductions at the beginning of day 1, I've found the anonymity freeing.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234065903-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234065903-05082004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Does
everyone else use nametags? Is there a time when nametags are useful? Am I
missing out on value by not using them?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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