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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'> Alan: Welcome from the Darkside. And
what are you thinking about?</span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Alan Chilton
[mailto:achilton@ns.sympatico.ca] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Saturday, </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>January 14,
2006</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>1:20 PM</span></font><font size=2
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>hhowen@verizon.net</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>; </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>OSLIST</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: Keepin' Busy</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>I thought I'd step out of the shadows and
say that I am thoroughly enjoying this
dialog. Absolutely delicious and thought provoking. Thank you all for your contributions so far.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Harrison Owen<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Saturday,
January 14, 2006</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>12:30 PM</span></font><font
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Keepin' Busy</span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Hello Wonderer! </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>What you are describing
with the analogy to gravity, in my perspective, is not self organizing, but
self organizing within universal laws (givens). Great philosophers and others
have attempted to understand and write about such laws. Law of gravity, law of
attraction, law of allowing…</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>I suppose where I come out
is that in addition to the other universal forces that we recognize; we are now
learning about yet another one, which for lack of better words is being called
“self-organization.” Or you might call it the lifestyle of a
Complex Adaptive System – which would include all of us individually and collectively,
along with everything else. And it would seem, if people like Stuart Kauffmann
and others at the Santa Fe Institute are correct – that Complex Adaptive
Systems come into being in response to certain very simple pre-conditions,
which if present lead naturally to order, organization, and systems. This, as I
understand it, constitutes the matrix or environment in which just about
everything takes place. So – while it is quite true that we as
individuals may make best effort to “organize” something (business,
social system, whatever) we always do that in the environment of self
organization. To the extent that we understand, cooperate with, and leverage
the phenomenon of self-organization, our work will work well. To the extent
that we try to swim against the stream, we are likely to end up on the rocks.
And should we ever think that there are no forces in the world but our own
effort (I am in charge and do all the organizing – after all it is MY
organization!) we are basically deluding ourselves. In this context, Open Space
(Technology) becomes a wonderful training ground in which to learn how to do
what we do anyhow – just better.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am wondering about your
opinion of the relationship of these universal laws and Open Space. Are they in
the open space, do they govern the open space, do they create a boundary for
the open space.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>I think I just dealt with
this one above… Open Space, and our experience in Open Space is, at one
level just same old, same old (self-organization). What is different, or can be
different, is that in Open Space we learn to do consciously (and maybe better)
what we are doing all the time anyhow.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am wondering about your
opinion of the necessity of a facilitator for an Open Space Technology meeting.
If we are self organizing, it seems to me we don’t need a facilitator.
And yet, the presence of a facilitator (even if off taking a walk) even
though he/she might ‘do’ nothing, appears to be essential
throughout the event.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>I would agree that the
facilitator is helpful, but by no means necessary. After all, we have been
getting along for about 14 billion years without a facilitator in sight. And
all sorts of highly complex organizations emerge and do their business every
day, thanks to self-organization – and with no facilitators. For example
the “feeding organizations” in human communities, even very large
ones like New York City emerged with out a planning group, executive committee,
or CEO. Nobody created them, and nobody is in charge. Some folks try, and they
may help around the edges (Health Depts. limit food poisoning) – but at
the end of the day, the system (as a total complex organism) runs pretty much
by itself. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>But facilitators can be
helpful – in general and in Open Space. However, I think it is important
to notice what they actually do, and don’t do. They don’t organize
anything, or at least not much of anything. What they do is to remind us of
what we already knew but tend to forget (Four Principles and One Law) and then
(under the heading of Holding Space) stand as a (usually) silent witness to the
focus and intent of the group. Actually, it may go a little deeper than that. I
think they stand as a silent witness to the integrity of the group, reminding
everybody (without a word) that they must be true to themselves, follow what
has heart and meaning, connect their passion to responsibility – and then
it will probably occur that the group will get where it needs to go, even if
nobody had a clue in the beginning where the destination was. Or something.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>And finally, I am wondering about your
opinion of why we do not have world peace if we are self organizing</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>I truly believe that the process of
self-organization drives towards Peace (under the heading of Searching for
Fitness with ourselves and our environment). The fact that we have some bumps
along the road usually come from very natural causes, all of which are
essential parts of the process. Things like Chaos, Confusion and Conflict.
However, there are also very natural, built in mechanisms which enable us to
deal with the painful aspects of Chaos, Confusion, and conflict – all
called Griefwork. Where we get in trouble, and the cart heads for the canyon is
when we think we are in charge and attempt to gain control as in My Plan, My
Way. And should MY Plan, and My Way take over, space shuts down, and life
ceases. Just runs out of room.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Harrison</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Harrison Owen</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Skype hhowen</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Open Space Training</span></font><font
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face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>www.openspaceworld.com</span></font></a>
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Open Space Institute</span></font><font
color=red><span style='color:red'> <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/"><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>www.openspaceworld.org</span></font></a></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Personal website</span></font><font
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face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>www.ho-image.com</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Birgitt Williams
[mailto:birgitt@dalarinternational.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Saturday,
January 14, 2006</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>9:34 AM</span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> hhowen@verizon.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: Keepin' Busy</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Harrison</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>What you are describing
with the analogy to gravity, in my perspective, is not self organizing, but
self organizing within universal laws (givens). Great philosophers and others
have attempted to understand and write about such laws. Law of gravity, law of
attraction, law of allowing…</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am wondering about your
opinion of the relationship of these universal laws and Open Space. Are they in
the open space, do they govern the open space, do they create a boundary for
the open space.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am wondering about your
opinion of the necessity of a facilitator for an Open Space Technology meeting.
If we are self organizing, it seems to me we don’t need a facilitator.
And yet, the presence of a facilitator (even if off taking a walk) even
though he/she might ‘do’ nothing, appears to be essential
throughout the event.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>And finally, I am
wondering about your opinion of why we do not have world peace if we are self
organizing.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>No need to answer any of
this if you don’t care to. These are just my wonderings.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Birgitt</span></font></p>
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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>Harrison Owen<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Saturday,
January 14, 2006</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>8:36 AM</span></font><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> Re: Keepin' Busy</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Marie – I can
understand your feeling that my conversation about self-organization may seem a
tad technical, and that for some of us (most of us?) the experience of Open
Space is intensely personal. But I guess where I am coming from is a (growing)
conclusion that we live in a self-organizing world which has certain operative
forces and mechanisms – and how we feel about all that is to some extent
a different issue. The analogy for me would be the force of gravity,
which effects, in one way or another, just about everything we do (at least in
this physical realm). If I see a beautiful woman and run towards her, that
probably has a lot to do with my heart, but the fact that I am running and not
flying (like a bird) has everything to do with gravity.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>To me it is important to
understand that much of what we take to be wonderful and magic in Open Space is
still magic and truly wondrous – AND is all very much part of a larger
process which was here long before Open Space and would continue to exist were
Open Space (Technology) to vanish. This thought also extends the magic to every
day life, or if you like, makes it very clear (to me) that Open Space is a
24X7X365 business. Yes it is true that we may intensify/focus the experience
when we “do” an Open Space – but we could “do”
the same thing every day of our life.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>In dealing with clients
and other such people, I start from the position that doing an Open Space is
nothing strange, new, or different. It is all Open Space. It is all self
organization – the problem is that we ordinarily just don’t do it
very well. What happens in an OS event, I think, is that we do what we always
do, but now with clearer focus and intention and so it works a lot better and
feels a lot better.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>As for where my heart is
relative to my client, I guess the answer is that I am of two hearts (two
minds) – and I will let you know when I figure it out. It is also true
that this particular client situation will demand everything I have and a lot
more. The good news is that I will grow with the occasion. The other side is
that there will doubtless be moments of pure terror and no small amount of
pain. The thought has occurred to me that maybe at the age of 70, I don’t
need to take that sort of trip any more. But I have never been very good at
avoiding such “opportunities” before, and I see no reason to expect
that prudence and sanity will suddenly be mine.</span></font></p>
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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>Marei Kiele<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Friday, January
13, 2006</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>7:27 PM</span></font><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> Re: Keepin' Busy</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> "Harrison Owen"
<hhowen@verizon.net> schrieb: </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>The operative power (as I
see it) is the power of self organization, and I am therefore led to the
conclusion that what you see in Open Space is the well functioning
self-organizing system – which in turn is naturally productive of an
appreciative approach, dialogue, and real community.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Since some
time I got a taste of "but that's not the essence - that is to
technical" when reading about "the power is because of the
self-organization.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>To me the essence of and the beauty of open
space is based on the freedom and the total acceptance. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>"I am okay, you are okay" ~ whatever
interest's or not interests me ~ I am okay. No need to pretend, no need to
fake, no need to try to find out what is being expected from me. When I am in
Open Space (or when I create my life in an Open Space way) I can honestly
and fully be me. And by honestly and truly and fully being me, so much energy
which in another environment would be spend on hiding, covering,
protecting, self-controlling, justifying, argueing, fighting and fearing
is being liberated. And all that energy is being used FOR something instead of
AGAINST something. And all the energy being alive in me is aligned with
who I am. Very powerful!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>AND by following the law, or in other
words following what has heart and meaning for me, I get out of the
mode of being thinking driven (mind) into feeling or intuitive mode ~ and
by that acess whatever fits with you belief-system, calling it my higher self,
my intuition, my inner wisdom. And together with other participants experiencing
the same, following the same path, we all together reach another level of
consciousness.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>THIS for me is the operative power of Open Space. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Don't know if this works as an explanation for every
client but I will try and share.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>And regarding your question, </span></font>Harrison: <br>
"And what are our obligations to the client and the participants? And to
our selves?"</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>My personal answer: There are no obligations. If we do
what we really (= in our hearts) want to do, everything is fine.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>You wrote: "Part of me just can't wait to get on
with this show. And there is another significant part of me that desperately
wishes that they would decide that Open Space is a nice idea -- but not for
them. As you say," a great gig for you to be able to say you turned down!"
</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>What part is your hearts voice speaking?</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Marei</span></font></p>
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