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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you Harrison and
Birgitt, I found in myself that whenever my teachers challenge each other I am
enriched. The scope of your conciousnesses create a fruitfull space in
which I can create.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think that in organizations, communities
and people there is an amazing dance and interplay between the leader and
the people`s conciousnesses, mirroring each other.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> The process in which Sharon
became the Israelis (and maybe a world) great hero, and in one
year</FONT> <FONT face=Arial size=2>(after being in big
dispute so many years) is really being ready to be surprised. By a not
perfect democratic way he opened a space for movement within the Israeli
society towards peace, after a long period in which this movement have been
slowly created. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The os facilitator can serve as a pendulum
(sometimes more active) between the community/organization and its
leader/s,(thus the importance of the steering committee) that
sometimes enhances (or opens a bit more) the speed or volume of mutual
reflections of conciousnesses and creating a wider space for the self
organizing and freedom to occur.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This balance between the leader/s and people
should remain our concern if we want the space that was opened to remain
sustainable and self oganization manifest itself fully.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Avner Haramati</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jerusalem</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=hhowen@verizon.net href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">Harrison
Owen</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 14, 2006 5:34
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Keepin' Busy</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
Birgitt Williams [mailto:</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">birgitt@dalarinternational.com</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">]
<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> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><A
href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</A></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> RE: Keepin'
Busy</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><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><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>
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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">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: 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">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><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=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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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">Birgitt</SPAN></FONT></P>
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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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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><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 life.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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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size=3><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>
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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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OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: Keepin'
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> "Harrison Owen"
<hhowen@verizon.net> schrieb: </SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><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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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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beauty of open space is based on the freedom and the total acceptance.
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><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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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><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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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><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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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><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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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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background-color:>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><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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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><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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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><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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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><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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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Marei</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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