<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Doug,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Proximity: very elegant!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Maureen and I have been offering and delivering Open Space after keynote </DIV><DIV>speeches, after presentations in corporate meetings, after political speeches - </DIV><DIV>anywhere we can open up space and allow everyone to be the expert or at least </DIV><DIV>ask questions about what was a spark for them. It works incredibly well.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Generally, we hold a 3 hour Open Space after keynote speeches. In terms of </DIV><DIV>presentations in corporate meetings, there will sometimes be multiple </DIV><DIV>presentations in the mornings and then hold Open Space in the afternoons. </DIV><DIV>We've had fantastic results!</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>with grace and love,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Zelle</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Zelle Nelson</DIV><DIV>Know Place Like Home/Engaging the Soul@Work/State of Grace Document</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>www.knowplacelikehome.com</DIV><DIV>www.engagingthesoulatwork.com</DIV><DIV>www.stateofgracedocument.com</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:zelle@knowplacelikehome.com">zelle@knowplacelikehome.com</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>work/home:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>(001) 828.693.0802</DIV><DIV>mobile:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>(001) 847.951.7030</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Isle of Skye</DIV><DIV>2021 Greenville Hwy</DIV><DIV>Flat Rock, NC 28731</DIV><DIV>USA</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 26, 2006, at 10:35 AM, douglas germann wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi all--</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris's Tao of Holding Space stopped me in my mental tracks last night</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">with one word: proximity.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">What we are about in opening space is bringing people into proximity,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">yes?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Proximity: notice what can happen when we bring people who care near</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">each other. Ideas bounce and blend and reproduce. Passions infuse. Keep</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">us in tightly sealed containers and nothing new happens. Juxtapose us</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and there is possibility. For fire.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Which raises for me the question of why do people try to keep others in</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">tightly sealed containers, such as "do me" audiences who are not allowed</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to talk back, let alone with each other? Is it lack of experience with</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">any container where people can let their lights shine on each other? Is</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">it fear of the fire? Something else?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ever notice that after a play or a good seminar, when we go home we want</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to talk about it? We want to assimilate it, re-enjoy, extend it. What if</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">we could harness that energy at the event itself? Get the people there</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to assimilate, re-enjoy and especially extend it, starting right there?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">What if?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Is this what OS is?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>:- Doug. 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