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<p class=MsoPlainText><span class=GramE><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Great conversation, all.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I agree with Harrison that this is about not just OS but - whatever the
methods we use - our own individual thoughts and decisions about who we can
choose to serve and when we draw the line for reasons of conscience and our own
values.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I think for any facilitation job, it is important that we see if this
is the right fit for us as well as the <span class=GramE>client,</span> and if
it is not we can refer that job to someone else or just say no.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span class=GramE>And that for me, this
is a case-by-case decision.</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I know that there are amazing, healthy people in every institution or
corporation that we see all too easily as a big block of sameness.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>We have the lucky part: the leaders who ask
for Open Space - to me - are the visionaries.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>They are the people who say 'I am not in
control - I do not know the answer - we are greater if we tap the wisdom,
passion and responsibility of the greater group'. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>So here I am imagining: some tobacco company supervisor who wishes to
call all the employees of a manufacturing facility together to do an Open Space
on how to re-design their work and their facility so they will have less
on-the-job injuries and a healthier workplace.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>That sounds good to me.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Within a weapons manufacturing facility
I would like to think that there are supervisors who might see that their staff
is (let us pretend) grieving a massive layoff - and that Open Space might help
them process that <span class=SpellE>griefwork</span>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>That (though personally I would like
there to be less use for weapons manufacturers and I would like them to close
down) as a service to humans trying to do their best in a very sad environment,
also sounds good to me.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Would I take a job for those companies?<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I'm not sure.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I don't like the products and I think
they are doing harm.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>But maybe - as
in any contact with a prospective client, as I am getting an intuitive sense
for who they are personally and if I feel it's a 'fit' between us (as much as
whether Open Space would or would not be appropriate as together we clarify
their needs and situation) - just maybe I feel they are one of those jewels
inside a massive organization who are doing a really good thing with their
staff or the surrounding community. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>And that facilitation might help them stay
healthier and appreciate each other more.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I did have a great series of conversations with someone within a huge
organization where we (you and I) might not have agreed with that
organization's product or what we perceive to be their values. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>And what they were doing was something
the local residents were not happy with.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>But legislation had already occurred allowing it to happen and so it was
a 'done deal' as they say in the States (for you folks who do not have English
as a first language: it could not be fixed; it was going to happen
anyway).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>However, there was an
amazing guy who worked within this organization who wanted to hold Open Spaces
with the community and with people in his organization who cared about the
community anyway, so they could have a space for anger and grief, for
frustration and hopes, and maybe, just maybe, provide some insight into how
things could work better the next time.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Would you consider doing an Open Space with this guy and this
community?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Actually, he was for other reasons unable to go ahead with this Open
Space. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>But I was going to say
yes.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>And my greatest concern is
what others would assume about me if they saw that company on my list of
clients.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I wondered if I would lose
some potential work from one organization <span class=GramE>who</span> might
look at my client list and not like another organization they saw there.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>So really this particular facilitation situation
felt good and clean to me but I knew I would wrestle afterwards with whether to
list that organization on my client list or simply omit it because of what
*others* would think about me.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>And
that's a whole *other* conversation we could have here.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>At one point in an earlier conversation on this list, I said that I
might even facilitate an Open Space for a gang.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Because I have worked a bit with gangs,
and gee if they wanted to have an Open Space on making peace with another gang
I'd like to help. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Or if they wanted
to figure out how to get more education even though they are not in school, I
would like to help with that, too. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Because
in doing an Open Space I also think I'd help people see each other in new ways,
breathe a little bit in a nutrient-rich environment, experience passion,
difference or even rage in a way that says <span class=GramE>its</span> okay to
have feelings, and so on.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Which I
think would be glorious for individuals in that life to be able to feel.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Would I do an Open Space to help a gang figure out how to obliterate
another gang?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Or <span class=GramE>a
tobacco company</span> how to make secret chemicals in candy addict children to
cigarettes before they ever smoked one? <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Or a weapons company to build a mine that
looks <span class=GramE>like</span> a candy wrapper so it could be picked up by
a child?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span class=GramE>Absolutely
not.</span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>But I also wouldn't help a peace organization do an Open Space on how
to burn down a military base. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>So it is case by case which would let me know where to draw my line.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><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"'>Interesting stuff,<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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color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:blue;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;mso-no-proof:yes'>L i s
a<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>H e f t<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue;mso-no-proof:
yes'>Consultant, Facilitator, Educator<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue;mso-no-proof:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-no-proof:yes'>94705-1106<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>USA<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";mso-no-proof:yes'>+01 510 548-8449<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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