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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Friends,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Here's a response from Juanita Brown for
all of your wonderful answers to her questions. I add my thank you as
well. It was lovely to learn about what is working from
everyone.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>clear and unseasonably warm in
Seattle,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Peggy</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=juanita@theworldcafe.com href="mailto:juanita@theworldcafe.com">Juanita
Brown</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=peggy@opencirclecompany.com
href="mailto:peggy@opencirclecompany.com">Peggy Holman</A> ; <A
title=cii@igc.org href="mailto:cii@igc.org">Atlee Tom</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=David@theworldcafe.com
href="mailto:David@theworldcafe.com">Isaacs David</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 24, 2005 5:49 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> OS Listserv response</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT><BR></DIV><BR>Hello to
all....<BR><BR>We in the World Cafe team were touched and honored to receive the
heartfelt and thoughtful responses to our question regarding what enabled the OS
listserv to maintain its vibrancy over all these years, and how it had
contributed to the OS community around the world. <BR><BR>After we read the list
serv responses we also had a wonderful "storytelling" conversation with Peggy
Holman, which helped us grasp more deeply the origins and unfolding of your OS
learning community. There were so many parallels to things we have experienced
with the World Cafe that, at times, I found my skin tingling with recognition.
<BR><BR>We loved the emphasis on living the Open Space principles, the
opportunity for mutual help across time and space in a rapid way, the poetry and
creative expression aspect (we've just started a "creative expressions" part of
the World Cafe website), the diverse international voices chiming in, the
welcoming of all that arrives, encouraging both the experienced and the
"newbies" to exchange learnings as peers, and the inclusiveness and generosity
of spirit that underlies your collaboration. It is a wonderful tribute to your
self-managing, self-organizing community (and to the living systems thinking
that underlies both OS and the World Cafe) that you are, yourselves, a living
evolving "organism".<BR><BR>I look forward to bringing many of these learnings
to bear as this little girl--(10 years old this month)-- takes her next steps
into the big world with the publication of the first book on the World Cafe in
April. <BR><BR>Thank you again for your generous sharing....and we look forward
to continuing to "cross-pollinate" in whatever ways can be most nurturing to the
common spirit that underlies our mutual work. for a better world.<BR><BR>Fond
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