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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Some weeks ago I had promised to write more about what have
I learnt from OS.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have participated in a few OS programs spread over a few
hours (less than half a day).</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I participated in one multi-day OS program, which was part
of the annual conference of SoL (Peter Senge’s initiated Society for
Organizational Learning) in 1999.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I traveled from </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Pakistan</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> for the
conference, which was held in </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>New Hampshire</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (I was
still feeling comfortable about using up my savings).</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The format of the conference changed (from whatever) to OS
during the last week or so before the conference. The change happened after I
left </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Pakistan</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> – I was stopping off in the former
mother country of all English-speaking nations of the world. There appeared to
have been a rebellion by potential participants. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So, while I had come to learn, I found that the conference largely
became a marketplace for consulting offerings of participants.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I felt the co-ordination was loose, and spent most of the OS
time in open space (rather than Open Space), i.e. the coffee shop &
suchlike.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>However, I did find spirit permeating some of the large
group sessions. This had happened earlier in the Core Competencies Course, run
by Peter Senge & Bill Isaacs for SoL.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So, to me the spirit seemed more because I was with co-learners
than because there was any impact of Open Space.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Whatever I have learnt subsequently about OS is through this
list. For me, the implications of The Law (for life generally, including the final
time the law is used by humans) have great significance. The other profound
principle for me is “When it’s over, it’s over”. I
guess this is what HO refers to when he talks of grief work. </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Take care, all of you</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Masud </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;layout-grid-mode:line;font-style:italic'>Courage is not
simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point -
C.S. Lewis </span></font></i></p>
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