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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'>Hi Tree,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Please read my original response
carefully. I did not say that the ‘invitation is not what matters’.
Yet, my experience is that no matter what the invitation says, people will do
what they need to do at the OST meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Birgitt<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Tree Fitzpatrick
[mailto:therese.fitzpatrick@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, March 20, 2006 10:54
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> birgitt@dalarinternational.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> OSLIST@listserv.boisestate.edu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Conflict in community</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Birgitt, I am surprised to read an OS practioner
declare that the 'invitation is not what matters'.<br>
<br>
If the invitation does not matter, than what does? Isn't the invitation
of way of setting intention? Isn't holding intention for the space, um,
what an open space practitioner does? <br>
<br>
For me, clarity of intention is very central to any OS event and, for me, the
intention is set in the invitation. The invitation, of course, is
cocreated by the event's sponsors and the collaboration of sponsors used to come
up with the invitation is, in my mind, essential to what it means to open
space.<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=gmailquote><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 3/20/06, <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Birgitt Williams</span></b> <<a
href="mailto:birgitt@dalarinternational.com">birgitt@dalarinternational.com</a>>
wrote:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Chris,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Having an OST would work
well. No matter what the invitation says, on Day One, they will end up airing
what they need to air. Then Day Two and beyond is where they will start to find
their way. It is not the invitation that matters so much as the amount of time.
People, given time and space, and a common purpose, will find their way in an
OST meeting, with the facilitator aware of holding a resonant energy field of a
frequency that is at harmony.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>On the flip side,
curtailing the amount of time compresses the conflict energy.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Birgitt</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class=q><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST [mailto:<a
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Chris Corrigan</span></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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class=q><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Conflict
in community</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi Folks:<br>
<br>
An inquiry for you.<br>
<br>
I've had a couple of conversations this week with people involved with local
school boards in the United States. The common themes in these
conversations include high degrees of local conflict, positional politics, an
extreme lack of resources over which no one locally has any control and labour
relations that are best described as toxic. <br>
<br>
IN a conversation today, one man said that he wanted to try Open Space simply
as a way to have all the parts of the system understand each other. I
suggested that this might not bring the peace he was looking for, as people who
would come to that kind of meeting hoping to convince others of their
righteousness would feel at the end of the day that they were either winners or
losers. I thought that result wouldn't necessarily be
transformational. When I asked him if instead we couldn't issue an
invitation to invite people essentially to answer the question "how can we
BE together differently in this system" he balked a little at the notion
of a smaller group of "like minded" individuals. Of course I
don;t see this as starkly black and white, but nevertheless, he thought an
"airing of the issues and a shared understanding" were most
important. <br>
<br>
So my question goes to people who have worked in this situation, with groups
that are highly wedded to positions. What are the kinds of invitations
that allow for "airing," generated shared understanding, and perhaps
lead to transformative relationships? <br>
<br>
By the way, I told him I would do this for less than 1.5 days.<br>
<br>
Thoughts and reflections welcome.<br>
<br>
Chris<br clear=all>
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