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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>Dear all,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>There is something I wish to share with
you:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>A couple of weeks ago, I invited some
friends for dinner. At the end of the dinner, I suggested a topic for
conversation, and to channel the conversation, used a modified process to what
I had seen used for Scott Peck’s “Community Building Workshop”.
I read the story of the Rabbi’s Gift (which basically conveys the message
that answers have to come from within the group, and for that to happen, there
needs to be respect for all) asked for a few minutes of silence, and got a
talking stick that people picked up when they wished to speak. The topic I
chose was “Integrating visible minorities in society” (Like me,
many invitees fell in this category). People appreciated the process used. Of
course, we barely got into the nitty-gritty of the matter. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>Have any of you done, or considered
doing something similar, using Open Space?</span></font></p>
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8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>My interest is getting conversations
going on issues that are important these days. And perhaps have follow-on
sessions for a societal topic like the one mentioned above.</span></font></p>
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8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>Take care, all of you</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:navy'>Masud </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#8e2323" face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#8E2323'>There is something
called learning at a rather small level of organisation. At a much higher
gestalt level, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>learning is called evolution </span></b>–
Gregory Bateson</span></font></p>
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