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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ralph & All:
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks for the
reply.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I’ll try to explain my
last sentence shortly.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I agree with
Joelle and you that some clients are only or primarily concerned about results.
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Some want “concrete”
results – 10 work groups with specific outcomes by December.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Some realize that new relationships or
new patterns of communication (social networks) are also important “results”.
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span class=GramE>Shifts is</span>
culture, or felt sense, of the organization are also results.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>What the client “sees” and
wants depends on the client’s awareness.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I also believe
that Open Space Technology is a particular technique or approach to collective
conversation and emergent leadership that can lead to surprising results at
many levels.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I think “opening
a space” can be done in many ways without the technology even though the
same Principles and Law seem to work.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Just as “Future Search”
is a particular approach developed/discovered by somebody, I think OST is as
well only it is not “controlled” in the same way.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I think “opening space” is
much bigger and the world view and the Principles and Law of OST help us to
practice “opening space”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thus, when I use
OST I acknowledge the source of that “technology<span class=GramE>”
,</span> at least by naming OST, at some point in the event and the work process
with the client.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Otherwise the
clients believe that I discovered it, my ego gets stroked, for what just happened.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I know that </span></font><st1:place><font
size=2 color=navy><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>Harrison</span></font></st1:place><font size=2 color=navy><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:navy'> “gave
it away” – a wonderful gift to us all. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It is also true that some of my “clients”
or some groups I work with (such as those on collective consciousness journeys)
want to know what it is and what its roots are.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>One client call all (and there have been
many) Open Space Events – he sees the value in that with his front line
mechanics and construction workers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I designed and
used for 17 years, when I was doing organizing around homeless in </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font
size=2 color=navy><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>Canada</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
size=2 color=navy><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>, participatory processes very similar to Future Search at
gathers across the country.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>They were guided, focused on issues and they
worked.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>When I have been in
involved in Future Search, similar but different<span class=GramE>, <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I</span> call it that.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Does this help
clarify my thoughts?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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