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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>To another aspect of this subject...for
the last several years, I have</FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2> been
working a lot with people who approach groups with a somewhat more traditional
process design sensibility. As I've immersed myself in these
experiments(the Nexus for Change being the most visible), I'm coming to believe
that much of the challenge/tension I experienced in these situations comes
from a significant difference in philosophy about where we focus our design
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Is it on creating a process to
achieve some outcome? I experience this as having an underlying assumption
that we must channel or direct the energy towards the calling aspiration.
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Or, as in open space, is it on creating a
rich, nutrient space in which stuff unfolds in the direction of the
apsirations invoked by the call? I experience the underlying assumption
here as holding a belief that given the right conditions, the rest will take
care of itself.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I'm struggling for language around this
because putting it in the form of an either/or, as I just did, misses the
boat. What's the larger perspective that holds them both? And how do
we best work with these different assumptions? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Part of my inquiry has to do with how we, in the Open Space
community, play well with others. Another part is that I think
there's a key to this directive/participative/laissez-faire/self-organizing
question and the changing role of leadership/facilitation as we shift from
a Newtonian to a Nexustentialist* world view in our work.</DIV>
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<DIV>appreciatively,</DIV>
<DIV>Peggy</DIV>
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<DIV>*Nexustentialism - here's a stab at a preliminary definition:
practices which welcome and support the coming together
of disparate/diverse threads such that something novel is made
visible and named into existence as an emergent "center" for what
wants to unfold.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>________________________________<BR>Peggy
Holman<BR>The Open Circle Company<BR>15347 SE 49th Place<BR>Bellevue, WA
98006<BR>(425) 746-6274 </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>For the new edition of The Change Handbook, go to: <BR><A
href="http://www.bkconnection.com/ChangeHandbook">www.bkconnection.com/ChangeHandbook</A>
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<DIV>"An angel told me that the only way to step into the fire and not get
burnt, is to become <BR>the fire".<BR> -- Drew
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