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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'>Thank You Jack! And with that Thank You
comes a continuing invitation to everybody else to share what they have
learned. Since threads have a way of disappearing in this wonderful forest of
ideas, which is </span></font><font color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>OSLIST</span></font><font color=red
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>, I will take this
opportunity to repost my original invitation with updates. Just in case anybody
wonders what it is all about! </span></font><font color=red face=Wingdings><span
style='font-family:Wingdings;color:red'>J</span></font><font color=red
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The Invitation</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>In 1985 the first Open Space
happened in </span></font><font face="Courier New"><span style='font-family:
"Courier New"'>Monterey</span></font><font face="Courier New"><span
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font><font face="Courier New"><span
style='font-family:"Courier New"'>California</span></font><font
face="Courier New"><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>. This year (in case
you haven't noticed) is 2005. In short OS has been around for 20 years (not
counting the 14,000,000,000 years previously). So what have we learned?</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>My hope would be to
inspire/goad/embarrass/encourage each one of you to reflect on the past 20
years (or at least that part of the 20 years in which you participated in the OS
community) - and offer up your understanding of what you, personally, have
learned - about Open Space, yourself in Open Space, about organizations in Open
Space.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Although it is doubtless
Politically Incorrect - I suggest a rule for our discussion. Pretend this is a
closing circle, and we are passing the Talking Stick. Take a moment, maybe even
a LONG moment (days/weeks) to reflect on what you have learned, and then talk
as long as you want. And not just the "good stuff" - the pain and
disillusionment as well, if that is your story. You have the stick! And please
NO COMENTARY! I suggest that we just let this roll without response - just like
a </span></font><font face="Courier New"><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Closing
Circle</span></font><font face="Courier New"><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>.
</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>There is no rush to
completion, and I believe you will find that creating a considered response
will be a rich and rewarding opportunity. As they say - "We've come a long
way, Baby," and remembering just how far and how deeply we have traveled
will be a rich moment indeed. For newcomers and old hands alike, observations
on our personal experience can only enhance our collective wisdom, I believe.
For my part I have opened a space on openspaceworld.com as the temporary
archive for our thoughts. You can check it out by clicking on <a
href="http://www.openspaceworld.com/os%20learning.htm">http://www.openspaceworld.com/os%20learning.htm</a>
</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I look forward to whatever
comes next as a birthday present from each of us to all of us, after 20 years.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><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> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Jack Ricchiuto<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Wednesday,
March 23, 2005</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>10:45 PM</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: What have we learned?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>It's interesting. I starting
"doing" Open Space about the same time I started researching
for my second book, "Accidental Conversations." I was
learning about the presence and power of dynamic, organic, emergent systems in
the natural sciences that so well paralleled the physics and ordinary magic of
Open Space. My interest in self-organizing systems started in my work with
organizations in the 1970's and Open Space seemed very logical and natural to
that learning.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Now after countless Open Space
events, mostly very humble in size and scope, I open space with the confidence
and grace that comes with the experience of doing so. And why not. It's not
about who we are individually. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In Buddhism - my personal frame of
reference - caring follows knowing. In Open Space, my caring follows my knowing
that we will engage each other in new ways whenever given the chance. And we
will dare to dream larger dreams if given the chance to dream together.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>This is both the passion we inhale and
responsibility we exhale in the circle of being from which emerges our doing
and having.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>My story is that I was born into a world
that calls me to freedom in my connectivity and that I am so deeply grateful
for the privilege of being in this community.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Jack</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>~~~~~~~~~~</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>jack ricchiuto</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>two.one.six/three.seven.three/seven.four.seven.five</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.designinglife.com/">www.designinglife.com</a>
/ <a href="http://www.appreciativeleadership.org/">www.appreciativeleadership.org</a>
</span></font></p>
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