<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Jack,<DIV>I appreciate your comments.</DIV><DIV>Most likely the reason I can't find OST limitations to write about is because OST supports the process rather than cutting across it.</DIV><DIV>So, if OST is done in a way that doesn't cramp the group's style, and if space is made, there are most likely no cons.</DIV><DIV>I certainly don't want to fabricate cons either.</DIV><DIV>But I am interested in hearing about the issues others at the conference (and on this list) have had when experiencing OST, if they wish to bring them forward.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My second paper at the conference will be about high and low dreams - a paper related to Process Oriented Psychology (Arnold Mindell and colleagues).</DIV><DIV>So I am aware of the benefits of not just focussing on the positives of a situation.</DIV><DIV>Thanks for your tasty response,</DIV><DIV>Allison.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> <BR><DIV><DIV>On 22/11/2005, at 2:29 PM, Jack Ricchiuto wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <FONT face="Optima, Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0px">Allison,<BR> <BR> A second vote to lovely Lisa’s suggestions. <BR> <BR> 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> <BR> Thanks for inviting this conversation.<BR> </SPAN></FONT><FONT size="2"><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px"><BR> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Papyrus, Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0px">Jack<BR> </SPAN></FONT><FONT size="2"><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px"><BR> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px"><FONT face="Optima, Times New Roman"><BR> __.__.__.__.__.__.__.__.__.__.__.__.__.__.__.__.__.__<BR> <BR> </FONT><FONT color="#808080"><FONT face="Papyrus, Times New Roman">jack ricchiuto<BR> two.one.six/three.seven.three/seven.four.seven.five<BR> <A href="http://www.designinglife.com">www.designinglife.com</A> / <A href="http://www.appreciativeleadership.com">www.appreciativeleadership.com</A></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Optima, Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size:14.0px"><BR> </SPAN></FONT> * * ========================================================== OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu: <A href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</A> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: <A href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</A></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>*
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