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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Interesting questions! (And most delightful
questioners)</span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>What has enabled the Open Space
listserv to flourish?</span></font></i></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Plenty of space (no arbitrary restrictions, managers, moderators –
fully self-organizing). Lots of passion – people really care about what
they ask and how they respond. Genuine responsibility – guess what? Real
Open Space. If nothing else, there is real integrity here. We walk our talk. <i><span
style='font-style:italic'><br>
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In what ways has the listserv helped the Open Space community of practice
to evolve?</span></i></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>In just about every way you can think of. Absent </span></font>OSLIST
and I think you would have excised the manifest heart and soul of the
operation.</p>
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12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>In what ways has it affected you and your own practice
to evolve?</span></font></i></em></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></i></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:normal'>More ways than I can count or even
think of – from the very practical/mechanical like how to enable
convergence. I still like voting </span></font></i></em><em><i><font
face=Wingdings><span style='font-family:Wingdings;font-style:normal'>J</span></font></i></em><em><i><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-style:normal'> -- and I have certainly
employed have employed all the other approaches that have made an appearance
here. At the other end are the theoretical and spiritual inquiries. I expect
that my mind eventually would have settled on Self-Organization as a most
interesting area for contemplation, but that interest certainly took wings here
on </span></font></i></em><em><i><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-style:normal'>OSLIST</span></font></i></em><em><i><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-style:normal'>.</span></font></i></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>What wishes do you have for the
list's future?</span></font></i></em></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></i></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:normal'>More of the same and better. At
least until it is over. And when it’s over it’s over. Some years
ago somebody asked me what my hopes were for Open Space. I said I hoped it
became something like Accounting – something that everybody did (at least
in a cash economy) – although some did it better than others. At this
point, Accounting is not all that remarkable. It is just something you do. When
Open Space Technology is no longer remarkable, strange or different –
just something people do, I guess we may have done our job. Although as I think
about it, my Accounting friends do seem to spend a lot of time thinking and
talking about how to do it different and better. So maybe we are in this for the
longer haul? No matter, it sure has been fun to this point, and I would
anticipate more of the same. And when I am not having fun any more, I guess I
am out of here. </span></font></i></em></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:normal'> </span></font></i></em></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:normal'>Thanks Peggy and Juanita </span></font></i></em></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:normal'> </span></font></i></em></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:normal'>ho </span></font></i></em></p>
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color:red'>Harrison Owen</span></font></p>
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color=red face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red'>Open
Space Institute <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org" eudora=autourl>www.openspaceworld.org</a></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><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> </span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>OSLIST</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> [mailto:</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>OSLIST</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Peggy Holman<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, January 08, 2005
6:44 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>OSLIST</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> A question about OS
listserv</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>I was on the phone with
Juanita Brown this morning (our first meeting). No doubt many of you know
of her; she is the creator of the World Cafe (<a
href="http://www.theworldcafe.com/">http://www.theworldcafe.com/</a>). It
was love at first conversation for me as I heard so much compatibility with why
I love Open Space expressed in her stories about the World Cafe.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Apparently, she has heard
about the OS list from several colleagues (including the irresistible Alan
Stewart). She asked me what I thought makes it work (actually, she
asked this much more beautifully but I'm saving her wording for you
below). I believe her interest derives from wishing to create a
similar resource for the World Cafe community. I suggested she pose her
question to the list itself. As I ponder my own response, her
questions seemed perfect for the new year -- a moment to reflect on what makes
this list such a gift, what it has meant to you as an individual and to us as a
community. Here are Juanita's questions, with a couple I've added
inspired by her inquiry:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>What has enabled the Open Space listserv to
flourish?<br>
<br>
In what ways has the listserv helped the Open Space community of practice
to evolve?</span></i></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>And I would add:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><em><i><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In what ways has it
affected you and your own practice to evolve?</span></font></i></em></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><em><i><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>What wishes do you have
for the list's future?</span></font></i></em></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>I'll forward responses to Juanita every few
days. I've encouraged her to sign up and see for herself, so we may
all soon have the pleasure of her company. In any case, I look
forward to learning, once again, from all who are attracted to this
inquiry.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>From snowy Seattle,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Peggy</span></font></p>
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</span></font><font size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>________________________________<br>
Peggy Holman<br>
The Open Circle Company<br>
15347 SE 49th Place<br>
Bellevue, WA 98006<br>
(425) 746-6274 </span></font></p>
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