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<FONT FACE="Optima, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>Allison,<BR>
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A second vote to lovely Lisa’s suggestions. <BR>
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If part of your presentation is a compilation of this community’s opinions, I’d like to opine on the case that there are no cons for me in open space. <BR>
I’m not saying this prescriptively or dogmatically, but experientially.<BR>
I’m not even speaking for all those who have shared open space with me over the last decade or so – this is “just” personal experience.<BR>
Not everything has easily quantifiable cons, for example things like: optimum connectivity in social networks, ecological resilience, communal forgiveness and trust.<BR>
So I’m not inclined to fabricate cons because I’ve been assigned to.<BR>
I just don’t see the outcomes of open space as downsides or “waste” in the process, especially given my deep commitment to ecology where “there is no waste in nature.”<BR>
Open space is a natural process where, as another eco-mantra has it: waste=food.<BR>
There are certainly limitations to open space. The wrong people tend not to show up. Things tend not to start or stop at the wrong times ... And so on.<BR>
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Thanks for inviting this conversation.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Papyrus, Times New Roman">jack ricchiuto<BR>
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www.designinglife.com / www.appreciativeleadership.com</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Optima, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'><BR>
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