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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Dear Peggy and all,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">What a rich conversation! What wonderful questions to sit with!</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">What is coming up for me, Peggy, is that it is not a new technology that we are waiting to see emerge, but rather that we are witnessing the growing pains of a new competency</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> in open space. I was blessed to experience rich butterfly behaviour in Moscow at OSonOS</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">X</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">IV. Pairings and small groups sprang up, unposted, all about the space, over all three days. These groups honoured the principles and the law of OS and flourished in it. There were very personal, intimate conversations that occurred there</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">—</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">deep</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and lasting relationships formed. And each person</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> witnessed, had the openness, the energy, and the courage to trust</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">in</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Spirit and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">in the practice of deep invitation. Even in the most delicate of conversat</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ions, a newcomer was welcomed in as the right person at the right time. I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">suggest</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> this is the edge of a new competence emerging in OS events</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">—</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OST, when embodied fully, can bring as rich rewards to our relationships as it has to our innovations in organizations</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">—</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">with no alteration in the technology. I sense that the private meetings, the limited invitation</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">are</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">relic of our pre-OS consciousness that we are ever more quickly transcending. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">That the urge to non-convene? a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">group</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> of one, two or more people will grow. That the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">participants</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">trust in the field to generate the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">precise invitation required will grow. The right people, the right time, whatever happens, be prepared. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I suggest that as participants</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> capacity to sense the energy of the field and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> work with it grows, the need to exert external controls will dissipate. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Perhaps one day, we won</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">t even see topics posted</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">—</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">just a crowd of butterflies and bumblebees swirling in mandelbrotish</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ecstasy</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">! Wink</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">wink. <big grin></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cheers and love,</FONT></SPAN></P>
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