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background-color:> "Harrison Owen" <hhowen@verizon.net> schrieb:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style="FONT-SIZE:
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>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><FONT face=Arial color=red
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#8080c0><FONT color=#0080c0>Got you,
Harrison!</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#8080c0><FONT color=#0080c0>Here we go with
different languages and someone from Germany misunderstanding the exact
meaning of 'operative power' and the difference between "the power of open
space is" and "the operative power in open space is". Seems to me we may mean
the same thing, in the end. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#0080c0>Would it be right to say that the operative power of Open Space is self-organization like the operative power
of a car is the engine or am I still missing something? If this
comparison is possible than to me what I described,
the end of pretending and controlling in Open Space, is
getting of the breaks and have something really going. All energy used in the
best way. It's creating a life nurturing instead of a life
depleting climate as Birgitt puts it.</FONT></P></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=red
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<P class=MsoNormal></SPAN></FONT><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style="FONT-SIZE:
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>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 – </span></font><font color=red face=Arial><span
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
>AND</span></font><font color=red
face=Arial><span style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
> 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>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=#0080c0><SPAN
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#0080c0>Would be stupid,
somehow, to get off the breaks doing an event and afterwards live one's
everyday life standing on the breaks again all the time, wouldn't
it?</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=#0080c0><SPAN
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#0080c0>As F.M.Alexander,
developper of Alexander-technique, said: "If you stop doing the wrong
thing, the right thing will naturally happen by itself." I believe that
when we don't live it every day we force ourselves into doing "the wrong
thing". Not referring to any external right or wrong which to me
does not exist. But doing "the wrong thing" by being different
from what and who we truly are. And this creates all kinds of
illnesses. Cancer in the body of one person, war in the body of whole
nations. </FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style="FONT-SIZE:
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>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>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=#ff0000 face=Arial><span style="FONT-SIZE:
12pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
><FONT color=#0080c0>I agree. And I believe we ordinarily
don't do it well because we act based on different assumtions. For me the
magic of Open Space lies in a bunch of people commonly changing
beliefs ~ and by that experiencing a new reality ~ a reality being much
more creative, efficient and healthy than what occured before.</FONT><FONT color=#004080>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=#0080c0><SPAN
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#0080c0>I came to
understand Open Space Technology as a practice of healing or
better of creating circumstances for self-healing of an organism /
organization. In Germany more and more people look for alternative ways of
healing because it is getting obvious how average western medicine is
failing in creating health. Health insurrances are starting to
pay costs for homoepatic treatments over here, which they would have strongly
refused some years ago.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=#0080c0><SPAN
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#0080c0>I am looking for
developments like this to refer to. For talking with people and
giving them an example they can use to deeper understand the benefits of Open
Space. And I use these developments to strengthen my
believing in open space being used, accepted
and appreciated in a fundamental way.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=#0080c0><SPAN
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#0080c0>One day it will be
like travelling is for us, today. We are not afraid anymore to reach the
end of the world and than fall down from earth, when flying to another
continent. Instead it's the most normal thing in the world that we
fly around the globe. So one day, not too far from now, it will be the most
normal thing to live in an open space kind of way. And no one is going to
wonder or write any mails about it anymore :)</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal></FONT></SPAN></FONT><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style="FONT-SIZE:
12pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
>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><font size=3 color=#8080c0 face=Arial><span style="FONT-SIZE:
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=red size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Harrison</SPAN></FONT><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal>What a pity that I live so far away. I
would very much enjoy to join and lower the average age of the team
members :)</FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=#8080c0 size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
color=#0080c0>Warmly, Marei</FONT> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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