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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Harrison
Owen<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:30 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Keepin'
Busy<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=red size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hello Wonderer!
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=red
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=red
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=red
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=red
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=red size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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 face=Tahoma
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Saturday, January 14,
2006</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">9:34
AM</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Harrison</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And
finally, I am wondering about your opinion of why we do not have world peace if
we are self organizing.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Birgitt</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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 face=Tahoma
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Saturday, January 14,
2006</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">8:36
AM</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><FONT face=Arial color=red
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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
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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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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
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[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On
Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Marei Kiele<BR><B><SPAN
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size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Friday, January 13,
2006</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
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OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: Keepin' Busy</SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
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margin-right:0cm?>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> "Harrison Owen"
<hhowen@verizon.net> schrieb: </SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in"><FONT face=Arial color=red
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
<DIV background-color: #ffffff; background-repeat:repeat; margin-left:0cm;
margin-right:0cm?>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; 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></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
<DIV background-color: #ffffff; background-repeat:repeat; margin-left:0cm;
margin-right:0cm?>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">To me the essence of and the
beauty of open space is based on the freedom and the total acceptance.
</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
<DIV background-color: #ffffff; background-repeat:repeat; margin-left:0cm;
margin-right:0cm?>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">"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></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
<DIV background-color: #ffffff; background-repeat:repeat; margin-left:0cm;
margin-right:0cm?>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
<DIV background-color: #ffffff; background-repeat:repeat; margin-left:0cm;
margin-right:0cm?>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">THIS for me is the operative power of Open
Space. </SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Don't know if this works as an explanation
for every client but I will try and share.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">And regarding your question,
</SPAN></FONT>Harrison: <BR>"And what are our obligations to the client and the
participants? And to our selves?"</P></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
<DIV background-color: #ffffff; background-repeat:repeat; margin-left:0cm;
margin-right:0cm?>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">What part is your hearts voice
speaking?</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Marei</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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margin-right:0cm?>
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