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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.5pt'>“…the space where no one can control anything and everyone
gains everything.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.5pt'>Lovely description…thanks for sharing your experience…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.5pt'>Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.5pt'>Karen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.5pt'>Karen Sella<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.5pt'><a href="http://www.luminacoaching.com/">www.luminacoaching.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.5pt'>206.780.2998</span></font><font size=2 color="#487e9c" face=Arial><span
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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><st1:date
Month="8" Day="26" Year="2005"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Friday, August 26, 2005</span></font></st1:date><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><st1:time
Hour="19" Minute="2"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>7:02 PM</span></font></st1:time><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> Opening a wild space</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'>I wanted to share my blog entry from today on this
week’s Open Space with a very hostile community group. <br>
<br>
____________________<br>
<br>
So this week I facilitated community meetings in my neighborhood aimed at
authentic community engagement around a housing development proposal. The
context: the most demographically diverse neighborhood in the region of 4 plus
million where voices polarize between support for high and low income housing.<br>
<br>
In spite of near violence, proposal sponsor near-hijacking of the process, and
participants shouting objections to giving input (the stated event intention!),
the 300 plus participants - in our meager 45 minutes of time - interacted on
what matters to them relative to this actually very complex situation. (The
more vocal) People were livid at being asked to talk as a community about their
issues and ideas instead of enjoying the usual public fare of public hearing
grandstanding that we offered later that produced zero actionable content.<br>
<br>
In Open Space where I very simply introduced and invited and held the space, we
had over a dozen topics drawing genuine contributions harvesting 8 printed
pages of proceedings.<br>
<br>
It was the usual and beautiful reminder of what happens when a community is
invited into a premier launch from historic victimhood to authentic engagement.
Their mythic proportion resistance to their own empowerment was based on a
stated preference for positional grandstanding and verbal pie-throwing against
perceived persecutors. I stopped counting the number of people who remarked at
the amazing and palapable difference in the energy of the community during and
after Open Space ... the space where no one can control anything and everyone
gains everything. <br>
</span></font><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><br>
<br>
<br>
(Thanks to Lisa Heft for gorgeous spiritual support throughout ...)<br>
<br>
<br>
</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Jack<br>
</span></font><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><br>
</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><br>
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<font color=gray><span style='color:gray'>jack ricchiuto<br>
two.one.six/three.seven.three/seven.four.seven.five<br>
www.designinglife.com / www.appreciativeleadership.com</span></font></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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