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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Dear all<o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Martin Leith once rather desperately asked in
a European OT-conference: “How can I be myself and make money with it?” This
question has been with me ever since. It has a lot to do with the ongoing
strand on authenticity and self-discovery in Open Space.<o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font></span><span
class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>In our recent Swiss Open Space event “happily
and healthily gay” in April, we used portrait sheets to facilitate
post-conference exchange. They included address, things I do especially well,
things I need support for, fields I would like to cooperate in with others,
important life questions and your favourite quote or book. I repeated this
question in my personal portrait sheet, under the topic of “important life
questions”. I was the facilitator of the conference, and it was my first
OS-conference as a professional facilitator (even if I have lived with Open
Space since 1989, co-organized several European OT-conferences and participated
in more of them). <o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font></span><span
class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>By the time the conference was over, I knew
the answer: In being a professional facilitator of Open Space conferences. I
truly loved it. Whoever I may be, I could be me, fully and lovingly! I am very
grateful to Lisa Heft for having asked, on this list, for a bilingual
facilitator who would work in Switzerland, and to Florian Fischer for having
passed on that mail to me and for having prepared the event with me.
Unfortunately, due to illness, he has had to resign two days before the event –
we were both very sad about this (but then, whatever happens…). Fortunately,
Wolfgang Fänderl from Munich jumped in for the German-speaking part – he was on
the team of assistants and has offered to do so. And thank you all who offered
advice for community building on the first evening – playing typical or happy
scenes of one’s life as a gay man in groups of 10 proved to be a great
door-opener to a wide range of topics, also intimate ones (36 issues addressed
by a little over 100 participants, and 12 emerging ongoing projects).<o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font></span><span
class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Lots of learning involved, too: <o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:17.85pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 18.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span
class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black face=Wingdings><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>Ÿ<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font></span><![endif]><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font
color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Sleep enough. <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:17.85pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 18.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span
class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black face=Wingdings><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>Ÿ<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font></span><![endif]><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font
color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Ask for enough
help. <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:17.85pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 18.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span
class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black face=Wingdings><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>Ÿ<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font></span><![endif]><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font
color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Talk about office
work before with the sponsor, especially if the protocols are written on
laptops and need to be perfect for the documentation (the perfectionism
swallowed all the assistant capacities which I then didn’t have to make changes
in the room...), even if he wants to do the office work in his way and without
your help. <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:17.85pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 18.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span
class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black face=Wingdings><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>Ÿ<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font></span><![endif]><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font
color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Coordinate well
with the sponsor, also during the event, not only before, and even if he
doesn’t want you in the office! <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:17.85pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 18.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span
class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black face=Wingdings><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>Ÿ<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font></span><![endif]><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font
color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Bilingual events
need a translator who is not the responsible facilitator. To do both is
exhausting.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:17.85pt;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 18.0pt'><![if !supportLists]><span
class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black face=Wingdings><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>Ÿ<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font></span><![endif]><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font
color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Clarify roles
before the event: of people who make the transition from having been members of
the preparation group to becoming “normal” participants (they had expected
certain outcomes, but they didn’t put their related topics up on the wall
because they wanted the space to be truly open – but then, who will see to ith
that their burning issues get addressed?), and of people who make the
transition from assistant to co-facilitator and have not been part of the
preparation group.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font></span><span
class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Yes, to be repeated, definitely. On October
20 – 22, the same sponsor is having another OS for people living with AIDS to
find out about their needs, and I will facilitate again, this time with a
translator. It’s “copy-paste”, in the same place, partly with the same team. We
do welcome assistants who speak German and/or French!<o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font></span><span
class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailFormatvorlage16><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Thank you all again for being such a
wonderful support and community! Love, Catherine<o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font></span><span
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color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AUTOTEXTLIST \s
"E-Mail-Signatur" </span><span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span></font><![endif]--><font
color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Catherine Pfaehler Senn</span></font><font
color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Open Space-Begleitung</span></span></font><font
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color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Kellersriedweg 8</span></span></font><font
color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>CH - 2503 Biel</span></span></font><font
color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>T/F/B ++41 - (0)32 - 365 68 41</span></span></font><font
color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>c.pfaehler@bluewin.ch</span></span></font><font
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color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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