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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Hi, Craig -</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>You wrote:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.25in'><i><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic'>< </span></font></i><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Question for you using OST in Conflict
Transformation:</span></i> <i><span style='font-style:italic'>If one uses Open
Space Technology in the beginning, form the circle, open the space, hold the
space, create a bulletin board, as the first and primary process, what does the
theme look like? ….is it direct?--You are in conflict and what conversations
need to happen to find your way out of this? or does it work best without the
directness and focusing on the positive direction of thinking such as--What is
the future you are trying create? Or does it matter because the group is going
to go where it is going to go where it needs to go?></span></i></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I find it is best to invite people to come together for a theme that
really engages them in co-creation - and I also find it is best to bring
diverse and often conflicted people together to work on a task together. Hence
for example, 'What is the future we want for our children' or 'How to preserve
our island and grow our economy at the same time?'</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I find that when people post their topics they are interested, surprised,
maybe a little anxious at what comes up. Which is normal. Then they
are drawn into a session they care about and find that someone sitting across
from them is someone they have historically seen as a competitor (or irritator
or opposite-thinker or unpleasant person) and they realize they are both
parents and both talking about the future for their children (or whatever). I
call it 'stealth collaboration' - Open Space gets in under the radar / before people
can set up their barriers...</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I find that the conversations the client/sponsor/host/core team has as
we go back and forth developing the best possible theme/focusing question is an
essential part of the pre-work. It is one of the elements which sets
intention and creates the container for the work to happen however it will
happen.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>My two transformation cents,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Lisa</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>___________________________</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>L i s a H e f t</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Consultant, Facilitator, Educator</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=ES-MX
style='font-size:10.0pt'>O p e n i n g S p a c e</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=ES-MX
style='font-size:10.0pt'>lisaheft@openingspace.net</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=ES-MX
style='font-size:10.0pt'>www.openingspace.net </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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