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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Dear Tree and Agneta,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>whatever you may have experienced and
whatever you might think about other ways of bringing change into life except
open hearts and open space - t</FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>here
is one little thing I want to remind to you: </FONT> <FONT
face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Open Space always works, if you can fulfill some
conditions - we discussed this many times. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Unfortunately sometimes you find
yourself in a place where you CANNOT fulfill these conditions for specific
reasons and you know, that open space WILL NOT work properly. So you have to
look for other options and future search sometimes is one of
them.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Paul Watzlawick once wrote a
very nice aphorism: "I you only have got a hammer, every problem
appears to be a nail" </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Erich from sunny and lovely
Vienna</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=therese.fitzpatrick@gmail.com
href="mailto:therese.fitzpatrick@gmail.com">Tree Fitzpatrick</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:21
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [OSLIST] Future Search</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Thank you, Agneta, for writing what you did. This is how
I feel about most large-scale change methodologies: they try to make me
think about what they think I should think about, they try to start and stop
conversations, when I should talk, with whom I should talk. There can be
lovely exchanges but, fundamentally, somewhere, in any tool but OST, there is
someone, somewhere, deciding what people should think, do, say, and, even
want. Pish posh. <BR><BR>The only change tool I have ever come
across that truly welcomes the emergent, the evolutionary, is open
space. Well, I take that back: an open heart is an excellent
change methodology, also.<BR><BR>Thanks, Agneta.<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 6/12/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Agneta
Setterwall</B> <<A
href="mailto:agneta.setterwall@telia.com">agneta.setterwall@telia.com</A>>
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<DIV text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">Hello!<BR>Some years ago I attended a
couple of future search conferences, and also a training in the method. I
donīt know if I was perhaps not the right person, but I got angry and
frustrated many times, not to say worse words. They tried to make me think
about what the facilitator told me to think of, and they tried to make me
stop think when the time was out, they tried to make us start conversations,
and to stop conversations, they decided which group we should talk in, and
they sliced the gruops and put us in new constellations not when we wanted
but when their method so required. We then had to agree on what was left or
at least keep our mouths shut. That was the "common ground". <BR><BR>Still,
it was much of the time nice, interesting and a creative clima - I
thought that it was an interesting method, giving much more room for
participants than many other. But after that I met Open Space...and I
understood that I will never never recommend Future Search to anybody, if
Open Space is an option. <BR>This is my opinion. Perhaps I am
wrong.<BR>Agneta,<BR>in a too hot Uppsala, Sweden<BR><BR>Vliex, Carla (cvl)
wrote:
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi
Lenore</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>We are
doing with soem people in the netherlands a research and an article on
Future Search and one on Open Space. There are many differences but to
keep it simple. If you want to know waht people really think, want,
wish, go for use Open Space but hen your never know with what tey will
come.... (it is often a concern of sponsors). Future Search is, I
think a more structured process, you go form one predefine step to
another. It will bring the participants sure to a <STRONG>common
ground</STRONG> on what they want. As for Open Space you also get the
diversity, the differences ans the disputes..... I think a three day Open
space is more fun and gives a more complete picture. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>my two
cents</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>Carla</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN>Met vriendelijke
groet,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN>drs. Carla Vliex</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> OSLIST [<A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU"
target=_blank>mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Lenore Mewton<BR><B>Sent:</B> zaterdag 10 juni 2006
14:26<BR><B>To:</B> <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU"
target=_blank>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A><BR><B>Subject:</B> Future
Search<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello All;</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have an OS related question- I've only
recently come across the <STRONG>Future Search</STRONG> process and
training. While it has several components similar to OS and World Cafe-
and perhaps other participative processes- I'm wondering if any uses this
process- and if so, does it dovetail with OS? Do you use it differentially
- in specific situations? One major difference that I see, initially, is
the length of time for these workshops, 2-3 days.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks, in advance, for any thoughts/info. on
this!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best Regards,<BR><BR>Lenore</FONT></DIV>
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