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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'>I guess I need to read this book. Having
been to most of the countries mentioned my intuitive response seems to be
rather different. And there is a notable omission – </span></font><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>Africa</span></font><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'> (the whole
continent). But of course, I wasn’t conducting research in any proper
sense of the word. But if I were to do research my concern would equally be about
a focus on </span></font><font color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial;color:red'>NOW</span></font><font color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;color:red'> and the content of </span></font><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>NOW</span></font><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>. Lots of folks
live “only for the moment” but that moment is quintessentially
fleeting. Others seemingly live “in the moment” but the magnitude
of that moment seems almost like a minus quantity. The situation I find most
fulfilling is when The Moment/</span></font><font color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>NOW</span></font><font color=red
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'> includes all of
time/space. In that moment, there is no past or future, here or there. It is
all now, it is all present – it is all immediately accessible. Such an
experience is not an everyday one. Seems to come and go, but it is a definitive
experience for me in that it sets the standards. Everything else is going to –
or coming from. But every now and again you hit the whole enchilada. I suppose this
may be another way of talking about “getting the whole system in the
room,” but not simply as a body count with all pertinent stakeholders
marked present. This would be the Whole System in all dimensions, certainly
including the usual four (dimensions) plus a whole mess more. Sort of boggles
the mind and certainly exceeds the mind’s ability to track, analyze, and
comprehend. When encountered in an Open Space it can be quite disorienting and
confusing while simultaneously being richly rewarding. Then again, it may just
be the product of a boggled mind. </span></font><font color=red face=Wingdings><span
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>April 26, 2005</span></font><font
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>I agree with the fragmentation of past, present and
future - i think it is particularly evident in the US. I just pulled out my
Trompenaars - "Riding the Waves of Culture" and looked up the chapter
on Time. In it he has some interesting Venn diagrams of individual cultural
interpretations of time. These show the extent of overlap and the relative
importance of each aspect of time. The intention is to give guidance to people
doing business in these cultures.</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'>If his research is correct it is clearly not just
Western countries or influences, eg Russia, China, Netherlands and USA seem to
be among the most fragmented, France, Malaysia, South Korea and Venezuela among
the least. I am fascinated by what drivers would produce these differences -
language? culture? history? media? And perhaps this has changed since 1993 when
the book was written?</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 the biggest NOWs (ie presents relative to pasts
and futures) - Indonesia, Venezuela, Netherlands and Spain!!</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:10:15
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Subject: Re: Learning to Expand our NOW<br>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Peter - I think it is
probably fair to say that for most folks on planet Earth the understanding of
the Present (NOW) is much closer to (if not the same as) the Japanese. Only in
the West (or western influenced) areas do you get the radical disassociation of
past, present and future. This has many interesting effects, not the least of
which is our rather interesting view of History as something over and done
with. Of course this understanding creates jobs for Historians who "study
the dead past." Might it not be better to concentrate on the living
present (NOW)? I am not a psychotherapist (although I may need one) - but this
fragmentation of time represents a distinct disadvantage, I think. Perhaps it
is even pathological. Over the 20 years of The Open Space experiment it has
occurred to me that one of the major impacts of being consciously in Open Space
is that the deep fissures between the Present and the Past and Future are
somehow overcome. Past and future are all included, and are experienced, I
believe, as seamlessly existent in the present moment. Many people don't notice
this, and some who do are quite perplexed - but I think it is a healing moment.
I guess that is why I described Open Space as "Expanding our Now" in
a book of the same title.</span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, April 24, 2005 11:49
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>this wonderful idea reminds me of a Japan Australia
dialogue i attended about a decade ago in which i was playing the role of the
rapporteur. the topic was 'responsibilities to future generations' and was
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>There were representatives from heritage, environment,
business, media etc - an incredibly rich dialogue ensued but after a while it
became obvious that we were talking about different ideas of past, present and
future. I remember vividly one of the Japanese describing the 'present' in
Japanese as meaning ' the dynamic domain in which the past and the future
interact' - so it seems to me that we have something to learn from this.</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>.....Leonardo
da Vinci</span></font></i></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'>Ah -- Funda. Let me reveal a mystery to you. You just
can't get away from<br>
NOW. It is all you have! Past is over, future hasn't happened yet. What you<br>
got is NOW. And the only question (at least for me) is how big is your NOW?<br>
If it is a tiny little "now" desperation quickly sets in. How are you
going<br>
to get everything (you want to do) squeezed into this anorexic (pathetically<br>
thin) now? You can't! And the more you try the worse it gets.<br>
<br>
But there is an alternative. Just make your NOW BIGGER! It may sound a<br>
little weird, but with some effort (not to be confused with work), NOW<br>
becomes big enough to include what we call the Past and also the Future. The<br>
Past, with all of its richness of experience (including the pain) is always<br>
available. And the Future is not some far off thing -- but dreams coming<br>
into focus NOW. For me it is a matter of opening my (personal) space. You<br>
can do this in all sorts of ways, but (I hate to say it) Visualization can<br>
help! :-)<br>
<br>
Harrison</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:blue'></x-sigsep>Peter
Wallman</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:blue'>+61 2 9882 3196</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:blue'>PO Box 7103
McMahons Pt NSW 2060 Australia</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:blue'>peter@passionmaps.com</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:blue'>www.passionmaps.com</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=1 color=blue
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:blue'>"The
figure whose attitude best expresses the passion</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=1 color=blue
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:blue'>that moves it
is most worthy of praise."</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><i><font size=1 color=blue
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:blue;font-style:italic'>.....Leonardo
da Vinci</span></font></i></p>
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