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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ah, Wendy, your message
strikes a string in my heart. I find myself having this huge resistance to
other methods and the amount of left brain work it takes from the facilitator,
e.g. in World Café, to find out the right questions, even if it’s
together with the sponsor. What a responsibility! Plus a resistance to standing
there with a stop watch and time the time for conversations for everybody…
There is a knowing inside me that OST can do the job in all circumstances - if
we take enough time to get ready, and to formulate the theme the way the
organization feels it needs to be stated. Something inside me refuses to “go
complicated”, knowing and living with OST for almost 20 years now. AND
this can be really difficult when somebody isn’t ready, but wants to work
with me because they have heard good things about an OS-event I have
facilitated… Perhaps I need to learn to say no to such an organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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I am pondering these days. Perhaps I will find a way to bring good examples on
my website which can help deal with some of the fears.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Von:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Wendy
Farmer-O'Neil [mailto:wendy@xe.net] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Gesendet:</span></b> Donnerstag, 23. August
2007 08:36<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Betreff:</span></b> Circles and open space</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Thank you all for this wonderful conversation. What
is arising for me as I sit with your questions and comments, is that underlying
all of our passionate choices is the intention of opening more space wherever
we are. I know that is always my intention and I trust and have faith
that it is yours also. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Sometimes this opening of space looks like world
café or appreciative inquiry, because that’s the widest, edgiest space
that the sponsor can conceive of. Sometimes it’s a progression of
ever more open processes until the group trusts me and itself enough to leap
into OST (I’m always humbled and blown away by leaders who move through
huge fear and/or organizational resistance and say “Go for
it!”). And sometimes it means holding the open space event in my
heart and keeping that space open for months or years until the sponsoring
group wants OST. All of the time, however, I am fostering a deeper
understanding and familiarity with OS principles and practices and
demonstrating the benefits. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>And I have had plenty of resistance to the
circle. I work a lot with social service agencies and when they walk into
a room set up in a circle, they don’t look surprised, they roll their
eyes and say, “Oh no! Not another process! What are you going to do
to us?” And at the end of the day they thank me for NOT doing
anything to them. ARGGGHHHH! Hence the reason for my
conviction that OS is one of the only truly ethical processes around—it
doesn’t steal power from people. It’s not about me, the Grand
Facilitator!!! Thank God/dess/Spirit/your word here!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>So, thank you Kaliya, for sharing how you have
grown and fostered open space practice in your community—I resonate with
your pragmatism. Your approach is not something I had considered before
and it has helped me to stretch my thinking. You obviously had a
determination to introduce your community to the benefits of OS and you made
the principles and practices work for you rather than becoming a servant to the
technicalities of the process itself. It’s really
invigorating to encounter someone who has chosen to make positive use out of
circumstances that most of us view as a challenge. As <st1:place w:st="on">Harrison</st1:place>
keeps reminding us—it always works—and your experience widens the
horizon of what that means. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>And isn’t one definition of mastery: knowing
when to break the rules? ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>The question I’ll be sitting with now
is: If the artist’s/host’s presence is embodying the essence
of OS, what is the minimum of form required for it to still work? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Georgia><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Wendy Farmer-O'Neil</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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