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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Hi
Yoav !<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Thank
you for sharing your story. I can relate to your experience very much, the
falling in love with Open Space, the disbelief that others “don’t
get it”, the being so sure that it would be just perfect in the situation
described.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>You
asked for thoughts / feedback, so here are mine:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>To
me, after falling in love with Open Space Technology in 2003 most challenging
has been to adapt the principles in every day life and fully LIVE them.
Furthermore, to adapt the whole structure of OST and fully live it. Being able
to do that is an ongoing journey. Today, when I encounter something challenging
in my life I invite myself to look at it from an OST perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Applying
this to your situation:<br>
Sounds like you posted the session “Let’s do an OST event”
and nobody showed up…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Now
you have several options, you can think: “It was a bad idea.” You
can think: “They are too fearful to get it.” You can think:
“I can’t have the session if they don’t come.” You can
think: “I’ll start with my own session ~ obviously I am exactly the
right person at the right place and time to work on this subject.” And
let yourself be surprised who else may show up at a later time. <br>
(Of course you can also have many other thoughts.) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>What
I mean is that a very strong desire to do an Open Space meeting can cause us to
close the space for others (as you also mentioned yourself in your posting). If
you want you could choose to see OS as “the art of inviting” and
keep inviting and allowing those who are the right people to show up. For
myself I like the idea of having this be so delightful that sooner or later
other people come and say, “What’s going on over there, they seem
so happy with what they are doing, <span class=GramE>I</span> want some of the
same stuff!” (<span class=GramE>like</span> in the movie Harry &
Sally).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>A
concrete idea: Can you think of any smaller issue with a smaller group where an
OST meeting could be useful?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>This could
help people build trust ~ in the method and in you.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Many
blessings,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=SpellE><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>Marei</span></font></span><font size=2 color=teal face=Verdana><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
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<pre><strong><b><font size=2 color=maroon face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";
color:maroon;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-no-proof:yes'>Are you doing what you truly desire?</span></font></b></strong><font
color=teal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:teal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;
mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Von:</span></b>
owner-oslist@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
[mailto:owner-oslist@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Im
Auftrag von </span></b>Yoav Peck<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Gesendet:</span></b> Dienstag, 19. </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Februar 2008 13:09<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>An:</span></b> </span></font><st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>OSLIST</span></font></st1:PersonName><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Betreff:</span></b> Not Open Space</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=4
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-weight:bold'>Not Open
Space <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-style:italic'>“No matter. Try again. Fail
again. Fail better”<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-style:italic'>
Samuel
Beckett<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>I am co-chair of the central parents’ committee
at my daughter’s elementary school here in Jerusalem. We are a relatively
young school that began with a handful of kids and now numbers 400. Since
losing the intimacy of the school’s early years, a plethora of questions
and issues has appeared: about the running of the school, the nature of the
parents’ community, educational emphases, student violence, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Having participated in several OS experiences and then
reading Harrison and obtaining coaching from experienced folks, I led three
successful OS events. I am in love with Open Space, the
“technology” and the world-view that underlies it. So I quite
naturally saw a school-wide Open Space event as something that could respond
beautifully to the widely-perceived need to give the parents a chance to
express their concerns and to gather them together on the way to voluntary, passion/responsibility
– motivated activism in the school. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Along with the curiosity and openness of some folks, I
encountered stiff resistance from others, including the two co-principals. It
was expressed in people’s difficulty envisioning what would follow the
chaos of the marketplace, and the opposition to “wasting time at an event
with no agenda.” I explained, I described, I brought in an outside OS
facilitator to explain, I gave out written material. The two principals were
particularly nervous about it, and I called other principals who were willing
to share their successful OS experience with our principals…. all to no
avail. Perhaps I wanted OS too much. Perhaps I was sounding righteous about it.
I was even accused of belonging to some kind of OS cult!! Picture me holding
out Harrison’s book to my accuser and him refusing to touch it, as though
there were worms crawling around the pages. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>What was wrong? Avner Haramati urged me to accept that
people could not be “persuaded” to do Open Space. That I had things
upside down… that the proper order of things would be reached when people
would own the idea to the point that they would be persuading me that OS was
right for us. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>The Parents’ Committee decided to devote an
entire evening to deciding what to do. As I listened to the various points of
opposition, and along with them the deeply-felt need for some kind of event to
take place, I yielded. People wanted structure, they wanted the class
representatives to go out to the class parents and cull the central issues
people wanted discussed, and then to build an agenda around these issues. They
were clearly not prepared to be surprised. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>So that’s where we are now. In early April, we
will hold an event that will not be Open Space. I somehow do not feel
“defeated…” An organizational consultant, I know that we have
to “start where the client is…” I wrote to Harrison and now I
am curious about how to build on his advice: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-style:italic'>Open as much space as you can, and
when the walls close in, take a pause until the next opportunity. It will come.
The other thing is that Open Space (for me) is less about “doing a
program” – than a way of being. It is a style of approach that just
opens space for people to share and grow. You don’t even have to sit in a
circle! I think that is what you have been doing, and I say keep opening.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>So this now seems to be the challenge: opening space
without Open Space. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>It is exciting to me in a special way, since this
feels like living in the real world, a world where suspicion, fear of losing
control, skepticism and cynicism reign… this is where we live, and
learning to uncover the keys to opening a closed space feels like an important
journey. As we build our non-OS event, there will be countless opportunities
for opening space, for making use of the OS distinctions, for softening our
fear of the unexpected. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>As Rabbi Yitz Greenberg says, I prefer Succoth to
Passover. On Passover, we herald liberation from slavery. Trumpets and glory! But
on Succoth we celebrate the dreary tasks entailed in wearily plodding our way
through the desert, as we daily build and take apart our little huts on the 40
year schlep to the promised land. At Succoth we celebrate the secrets of living
our way through the desert with the promised land in our hearts, sometimes
slipping to longing for the fleshpots of slavery, but steadfastly confronting
what arises along the way from an inner place that resonates with our vision of
what can be. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>I’d be grateful to any of you who have thoughts
about any of this. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Thanks much, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:50.4pt;
margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:85.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3
color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Yoav Peck, </span></font><st1:City st="on"><st1:place
st="on"><font color=navy><span lang=EN-GB style='color:navy;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB'>Jerusalem</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font color=navy><span
lang=EN-GB style='color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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