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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Avner – As always it is wonderful to
see you online! And no question – fear can lead to fearful things. Case
in point was the internment of the Japanese Americans. Which would seem to challenge,
if not negate, much of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s argument about the period of
World War II. Fear obviously can do some awful things, but I think the
situation is perhaps a little more complicated. Truth of the matter is that
fear in the face of real danger is actually quite useful. If nothing else it
gets our attention. However, if the fear becomes paralyzing it can, and does,
lead to very irrational and non-useful actions. Interning the Japanese was
certainly such an action. It is also true that the danger posed both by </span></font><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>Germany</span></font><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'> and </span></font><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>Japan</span></font><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'> to the </span></font><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>US</span></font><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'> and the rest of
the world was definitely present. </span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>The interesting thing is that the Japanese
were interred while the Germans were not. Frankly, I don’t think you can
explain that difference on the basis of fear. Racism would be more to the
point. Certainly not a quality to be honored, and racism is obviously connected
to fear (scapegoating and such) – but having experienced World War II,
albeit as a boy, and now living through (hopefully the end) of the Imperial Reign
of George, I really see a difference. Then we were afraid, but we also had a
president who reminded us that, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
Today we have a president (along with a lot of other folks) who has
consistently tried to heighten our sense of fear for his own reasons.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>And – I find myself going in a rather
different direction. It is a given that fear is present, and also that fear can
have both useful and destructive effects. My question is how do we understand
our fear so that we get more of the former and less of the latter? And to
complicate it a bit more – How do we understand our understanding of fear?
I think our experience in Open Space can be helpful here. Somehow, even though the
danger is not eliminated, our capacity for constructive action is enhanced. Why
is this so? How do we do it more and better?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>I find myself wishing that the Aussie
Psychologist might join our discussion. It might be interesting to hear what
folks from that discipline have to tell us – about fear, about opening
space to “reduce” fear, about ????</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Harrison Owen</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Skype hhowen</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Open Space Training</span></font><font
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face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>www.openspaceworld.org</span></font></a></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Personal website</span></font><font
color=red><span style='color:red'> <a href="http://www.ho-image.com/"><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>www.ho-image.com</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>avner<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, March 31, 2007
5:07 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Terrorized by terror
-- Space closes</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Harisson, the Rabbi you mentioned
had moved a long way since then and he is trying to initiate these days a
spiritual alliance between the Judaism and the Islam.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Not letting fear control our
lives is a constant challenge in our lives in Israel,
especially when new opportunities are starting to emerge. The
question usually is about risks that one is willing to take
for his values </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>For example, we are planning an
initiative to convince the Israeli authorities to let Muslims <strong><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>of all ages</span></font></b></strong>
to pray on the Temple Mount - Haram a Shariff, on tension Fridays (when
only adults above 45 years old are alowed to enter). On return we can only
hope that the Muslims will to take full responsibility of preventing riots
and harming Jews who are praying in front of the Wailing Wall. From our
experiences, many riots of Muslims started there on Fidays, including the
last disasterous Intifada. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Just out of curiosity about the
period the Americans felt very safe: During World
War 2, did you have any attempts to prevent the locking
of the American Japanese in detention camps?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>What kind of challenge are the
Iranians to all of us? What kind of actions can we make that are fearless?</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In 2 days we are celebrating
Passover, celebrate the becoming free from all slaveries - Fear is definitely
one of them</span></font> </p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Avner Haramati</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net" title="hhowen@verizon.net">Harrison Owen</a> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU"
title="OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Saturday,
March 31, 2007 12:29 AM</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Re:
Terrorized by terror -- Space closes</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Something that Chris said
caught my eye. “Phill Cass calls the "private voice of
possibility" which emerges into the public consciousness. Suddenly
we're not talking about the fearful aspects of a state run system of
colonization, but rather a community owned and support enterprise to put the
needs of children in the centre as seen by indigenous folks.” </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>I am not sure that I ended
up where Chris was leading – but for me what came through was the end of
“they.” One thing I have noticed in high fear dominated situations
is the omnipresence of “they.” Seems like they did everything –
or didn’t do what should have been done. But the net effect is that the
face of fear is “they.” The only problem is that “they”
has no face, which I suppose makes them even more fearful. And one of the gifts
in Open Space is “they” simply disappears. It is all us. Sounds
kind of flip and quaint, but I’ve seen it happen so often. In Jerusalem
one time we did an Open Space (Tova and Avner did the honors) and we had Jews
and Muslims. Not just the polite, usual suspects at such gatherings -- folks on
the extremes. One of the Muslims (reputedly Hamas) offered a session –
which attracted one of the Rabbis, amongst others. I was more than a little
curious how it all might work out, and later I met the Rabbi – and he was
bubbling. He said, I’ve never really talked to a Muslim before, but they
are us! I think there might have been some problem with the Arabic, Hebrew,
English transition, but the thought was very clear.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Harrison</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:red'>Harrison Owen</span></font></p>
<p align=center style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'><font size=2
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:red'>7808 River Falls Drive</span></font></p>
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color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:red'>Potomac, Maryland 20854</span></font></p>
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color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:red'>Phone 301-365-2093</span></font></p>
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color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:red'>Skype hhowen</span></font></p>
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color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:red'>Open Space Training</span></font><font color=red><span
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style='font-family:Arial'>www.openspaceworld.com</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
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color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:red'>Open Space Institute</span></font><font color=red><span
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style='font-family:Arial'>www.openspaceworld.org</span></font></a></span></font></p>
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color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:red'>Personal website</span></font><font color=red><span
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style='font-family:Arial'>www.ho-image.com</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Chris Corrigan<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 30, 2007 4:04
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Terrorized by terror
-- Space closes</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This
is a wise response Wendy, about Open Space not being safe space but rather a
space in which we can train with our fear. Many of us who are martial
artists will know the experience of bringing your fear to the dojang (in
Korean, the training gym, like the Japanese dojo) and practice it with partners
there so that you can encounter it and know it and then have it as a friend
when you face the fearful things of the world. Being hosted in Open
Space is for me very much like training in a dojang. <br>
<br>
I'm drilling holes in the bathtub at the moment in a number of places, the most
significant of which for me right now is in a year long project which is moving
the decision making authority over child welfare from government to Aboriginal
communities on Vancouver Island,. We've been opening space on this one
for years and now we have an intense engagement strategy set up and underway
which involves convening and hosting meetings of all kinds around the Island
which has, as the premise, "children at the centre." This
premise, this purpose, is the hole in the bathtub that is drawing people into
what my friend Phill Cass calls the "private voice of possibility"
which emerges into the public consciousness. Suddenly we're not talking
about the fearful aspects of a state run system of colonization, but rather a
community owned and support enterprise to put the needs of children in the
centre as seen by indigenous folks. <br>
<br>
Hold fear with consciousness and practice.<br>
<br>
Chris</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span class=gmailquote><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 3/30/07, <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Wendy Farmer-O'Neil</span></b> <<a
href="mailto:wendy@xe.net">wendy@xe.net</a>> wrote: </span></font></span></p>
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<p style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Dear Harrison,</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Thank you so much for starting this thread.
Chris, your analogy of the hole in the bathtub is a very clear representation
of what (little) we know about creating change in complex systems. Right
now fear seems to be the primary attractor guiding the energy in the US system—and
has been for some time (as you point out Pat). Attempts to go head to
head with that power vortex tend to reinforce it (as you suggest Harrison, the
BIG EVENT may not be the way to influence the most change). Watching for
local patterns and opening space around local issues where folks can reignite
their passion and rediscover their capacity to step into self-responsibility
and exert local agency, does create new vortices, new attractors that
inevitably pull energy away from the fear. </span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>I find that open space is not so much a place
without fear, as an exceptional place for folks to learn to feel the fear and
act anyway—and learn that they won't die if they do. That it's okay
to let go into the fear, wander around a bit, keep breathing, until you find
your feet and move on to what's next. This is an essential skill for
thriving in chaotic and complex times—and open space is a good place to
learn and practice it. Acting to create change or social innovation in a
system is going to feel risky. Most of us have been trained and educated
to create and preserve security—so we will need to get used to feeling
fear and acting anyway—with all of our wonderful flaws and imperfections.</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Whenever we give up basic rights, freedoms, and
responsibilities for the illusion of security, we end up selling off a large
part of our souls and our deepest humanity along with them. A new
trajectory of joy is what I am busy stumbling around to create.
Attempting to act, not out of fear, or against fear, but from a completely new
and open space of joy and infinite possibility. </span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>And yes, Harrison, I feel it as a
responsibility. That's why I risked a lot and went to Moscow to be there
and support the opening of space in anyway that I could. I was overcome
standing in Red Square in front of Lenin's Mausoleum and the reviewing stand
where so many years before I had watched on TV Brezhnev reviewing the May Day
parade of weaponry. I could not stop the tears from coming or from
remembering how I felt in 1982 when I addressed an audience (at a 'peace
conference') filled with Reagan's cold war cronies—that as a 16-year-old,
after three days of listening to them, I was without hope. So to find
myself standing in that place of such cold war symbolism, and to be there not
as a tourist, but as a member of the open space community—to have
actually been a part of an open space event in that place—felt like
nothing short of miraculous—and at the same time so fragile. </span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>So what am I doing these days to open space in
spite of the fearosphere? I am working hard with Cheryl Honey to refine
and spread the practice of Community Weaving, which uses open space principles
and takes it to the grassroots, non-event, daily life stuff—to remediate
poverty and isolation and build resilient communities of care and
belonging. I'm hosting an OS on my little island on finding abundance
doing what you love. I have started the planning for an SOS
(Sustainability Open Space) in the fall (I'll be calling you soon Chris
W.). I am talking to the local social planning council about the
possibility of opening space with the homeless. I've introduced the
United Way to OS and we are looking at how they might use it to grow their new
community development focus. Last year, we opened space here for a three day
land use planning event—we did it by donation and covered our
costs—and created a tremendous legacy for our community by establishing a
community commons that actually passed all the zoning and land use amendments
the first time through!!</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>So just a couple of examples of little ways that
I'm trying to drill a few holes in my local bathtub. What other ways are
you all engaged in this? It would be so inspiring to hear more about the
ways we are all opening little spaces for something new to emerge.</span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Lots of love,</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
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