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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#003366" face=Georgia><span lang=CY
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#003366'>Thank you all for
your comments on holding (or not holding) an evening event at a residential
OS. I have benefitted from your wisdom, and enjoyed your stories. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#003366'>Most of you, in your
comments, predicted that people will spontaneously organize themselves to do
some fun things in the evening. I have no doubt about that. But
I’m wondering if, in your invitations, you tend to signalthat this might
happen. Assume that you have a crowd gathering to work on an issue, or
for networking purposes, (rather than to “have fun”) and that
they’re unfamiliar with open space ... would you hint in your
invite that there will be spontaneous socializing? Would you suggest that
people bring drums, paint, dancing shoes, etc ... ???<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#003366" face=Georgia><span lang=CY
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#003366'>Marty<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#003366" face=Georgia><span lang=CY
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#003366'>P.S. I
particularly enjoyed the story about the organized trip to the baseball game
... it reminded me of a weeklong project I facilitated where there was so much
conflict and stuckness that, in desperation, I organized field trips just to
get everyone out of the building for a change of scene. (This was in my
pre-Open Space days.) I only found out, many years later, how deeply controlling
I’d been throughout the week, and how much of the problem had stemmed
from me.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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