<div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:admin@braziers.org.uk">admin@braziers.org.uk</a><br><br><br>Advertise Braziers Park for Open Space meetings???<br><br>Thanks for another lovely weekend.<br><br>Michele<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Gerard Muller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gm@openspace.dk">gm@openspace.dk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear Doama,<br>
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The workshop will be from November 13th lunch-November 15th lunch.<br>
I expect to finalise the invitation tomorrow, now that a space has found me,<br>
and mail it to you. It would be nice if you could make it !<br>
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If the dates don't suit your schedule, there's a series of events, about one every week<br>
in different countries. Only those who realy intend to miss it need to do so.<br>
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Greetings from Denmark,<br><font color="#888888">
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Gerard Muller<br>
Open Space Institute Denmark<br>
Phone: (+45) 21269621 Skype: openspace1<br>
Mail: <a href="mailto:gm@openspace.dk" target="_blank">gm@openspace.dk</a></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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On Sep 6, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Diana Larsen wrote:<br>
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Gerard,<br>
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When will the workshop take place? I want to let some people know.<br>
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Doama<br>
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Diana Larsen<br>
<a href="http://www.futureworksconsulting.com/get-in-touch" target="_blank">http://www.futureworksconsulting.com/get-in-touch</a><br>
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"Secrets of Agile Teamwork: Beyond Technical Skills" workshop with Esther Derby and Diana Larsen.<br>
October 21-23, 2008, Amelia Island Florida<br>
To register: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6fv6xc" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/6fv6xc</a><br>
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"The Art of Agile..." workshop series with James Shore and Diana Larsen,<br>
Oct. 27-31, 2008, Portland, Oregon<br>
To register: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6n5kbd" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/6n5kbd</a><br>
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On Sep 6, 2008, at 2:57 AM, Gerard Muller wrote:<br>
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Dear all,<br>
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<br>
I really enjoy working in beautiful spaces. More often than not however,<br>
clients have already rented<br>
one, usually too cramped or sterile, without any spirit. Sometimes there is<br>
a wonderful room I did not yet know.<br>
<br>
<br>
The worst space I ever worked in was when I was opening space for a regional<br>
tax office.<br>
They had decided to have the meeting in their cellar - to save costs. The<br>
ceiling was low, it was a long and narrow rectangle. It had to hold 195<br>
participants. I wasn't happy.<br>
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To my surprise the problem they had to solve was so bad that it did not seem<br>
to make a difference.<br>
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Sometimes I find the space I am to work in is unusual, or wonderful, or<br>
both. I have worked in tents,<br>
in barns, in police stations, in city council meeting rooms, in museums,<br>
hospitals, castles, monasteries, churches, and so on. Over the years I have<br>
found some places I really like to be.<br>
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<br>
Sometimes the client has not yet booked something. Especially when it is not<br>
an internal meeting but a system, I find it useful to ask what location<br>
other than a normal meeting space would symbolise and offer the right<br>
environment for what they want to achieve. Again this has produced some<br>
remarkable spots.<br>
<br>
<br>
This time around, however, I could select the space. It concerned a rather<br>
special meeting; the seminar<br>
on Harrison's Wave Rider Tour in the Netherlands.<br>
<br>
<br>
Then something strange happened.<br>
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All locations that I know and like were booked.<br>
<br>
<br>
I wrote to my network and asked for suggestions. Some twenty-five<br>
suggestions came in, most of which I did not know at all. In good spirits I<br>
started to check. All that I contacted were booked, too.<br>
<br>
<br>
I finally called a suggestion our collegue Gijs, a Dutchman living in<br>
Shanghai gave me when we met<br>
at WOSONOS in San Francisco. I called the secretariat of the<br>
Sufi-organisation and explained them<br>
I was looking for a special meeting space. Yes, they did have some meeting<br>
facilities, but they were definitely not a commercial conference centre.<br>
Only meetings with a strong spiritual link could be held.<br>
<br>
<br>
What came to my mind was to say that our meeting was to be about creating<br>
dialogue and enabling deep conversations that matter, but that I was not<br>
looking for normal facilities, but had heard they had quite a special place.<br>
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<br>
There was a pause on the telephone line. "You must be reffering to our<br>
temple". I then remembered Gijs actually mentioned a temple.<br>
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I was then given the name of the guardian of the temple. A few hours later I<br>
was there and had a wonderful conversation with a perfect stranger in an<br>
amazing building: a Sufi temple, a perfect square with a golden dome<br>
transparant enough to somehow pas on the light into the space.<br>
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The story of its foundation is, that Sufi teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan, sent<br>
from India to Eaurope to create a link between the East and the West, had a<br>
special experience during the summer school of 1922. He blessed the spot and<br>
gave it the name Murad Hassil, which means "wish for filled".<br>
He said to his students that anyone who prays with honesty, would experience<br>
this blessing.<br>
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So, Wave Rider in the Netherlands will take place in the Sufi Temple, not<br>
far from Amsterdam airport.<br>
And by the way, it lies at on a dune at the seacoast. It comes including<br>
real waves.<br>
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If you feel like coming, drop me a line.<br>
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Gerard Muller<br>
<a href="mailto:gm@openspace.dk" target="_blank">gm@openspace.dk</a><br>
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