<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Nancy for your words of appreciation - and it's thanks to you and your way that we in KM4Dev have gained the very courage and conviction that things like OS are more than worth to try and take the risks you mention! So many many thanks in return! <div><br></div><div>And today there are many many ripples - just one teaser:<div>I write these lines from the training centre of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) of the UN in Turin, and I can tell you, after having run only 4 small OS with different groups in the ILO and some ILO folks having seen it in the KM4Dev context, OS is starting to create some serious dynamics here! People are almost queueing up to learn about it! For me it's amazing, that a rigid bureaucratic organisation like this UN monster is able to create such a lot of energy around this. But maybe it's not surprising, since these organisations are so desperate for different ways of working...</div><div><br></div><div>-marc<br><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span><img height="55" width="173" src="cid:65F22F96-B123-4BC0-915C-A79100B0D074"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; 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Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.’ </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><i>Margaret Mead</i></font></span></b></font></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On 27 Jul 2008, at 20:50 , Nancy White wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Belatedly, I wanted to chime in. I don't find enough time to read the postings of this lovely network but since OSONOS has just happened, it felt like a good time to dip in and of course, Marc had shared with the KM4Dev group his conversation here so I wanted to also witness that. <br> <br>As a participant and one of the helping hands for opening circles and evening news, it was a joy to experience my beloved KM4Dev community in open space. I have been yearning for this for about 4 years and was so grateful that our core team and the wider community gave us their trust to use OS this year in our F2F gathering. I cannot state strongly enough how precious that F2F space is, and how it is still too rare a priveledge for so many in the group. So I experience the care that goes into the preparation as very profound and heartfelt as well as brain felt. <br> <br>It took a significant amount of trust from the community and our informal sponsors (the employers of many of our members who fund their travel to the event - the event itself is free - pretty fricken amazingly wonderful). <br> <br>One of the ripples out of the event was that now more people have had an OS experience and are ready to try it themselves. That is EXCITING. <br><br>Thanks Marc, for all your care.<br><br>Nancy<br></div> * * ========================================================== <a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a> ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of <a href="mailto:oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu">oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu</a>: <a href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</a> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</a></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>*
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