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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:navy'>Starting with the idea that form liberates function, the
(naturally emergent) design of a process liberates possibilities inherent in
the energy field. Liberation is possible to the degree that, like good Taoists,
we stay out of the way of natural emergence; we work in harmony with universal in-spiration.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><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'> Ralph
Copleman [mailto:rcopleman@comcast.net] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, September 04, 2004
10:43 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Form, Function, and
Reality</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face=Times><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Times'>I don't know anything about architecture, and I'm certainly
not sure I know what makes open space work so well.<br>
<br>
But I have thought for a long time that in designing meetings we (facilitators)
have sought a "form" (meeting technique) that most closely fits the
way people operate ("function") in our most natural or organic mode.<br>
<br>
Of all the techniques I’ve tried, open space seems among the most real to
me. You get as much theory and partially-cooked social science stuff as
you possibly can out of the way and let people do what they will do.
Spirit emerges and seems to take over. I believe this is what the
universe has been intending ever since the big bang.<br>
<br>
Ralph <br>
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</span></font><font face="Baskerville Semibold"><span style='font-family:"Baskerville Semibold"'>Ralph
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