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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:black'>Welcome to the OSLIST community, fabulous Steve!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:black'>I would say…that you actually…opened the space wider (as you) / held
space.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:black'>You breathed. You believed in everyone’s potential, without inserting
yourself in someone else’s dynamic - in a way, you supported that person for
being themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:black'>You embodied community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:black'>What a lovely experiment…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:black'>Lisa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:black'>___________________________</span><span lang=PT style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:blue'>L i s a H e f t<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Consultant, Facilitator, Educator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=PT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:blue'>O p e n i n g S p a c e<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><a href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net"><span lang=PT
style='color:black'>lisaheft@openingspace.net</span></a></span><span lang=PT
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><a href="http://www.openingspace.net"><span lang=PT
style='color:black'>www.openingspace.net</span></a></span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> <span
lang=PT><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Engle<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OSLIST] An Experiment in Closing Space<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello, my name is Steve Engle, I am a recent graduate of the
Lisa Heft school of Open Space facilitation, having happily attended her
December workshop in San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>During our practice Open Space in Lisa's class, one of the
sessions discussed the problem of dealing with personalities that were too big
for the Open Space. By this we meant people who would overpower or
otherwise possibly negatively affect the container. One of the strategies
we came up with was from some reading in some of the OS materials where a
facilitator spoke of Closing Space on potentially destructive personalities to
the container by simply standing near them.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Last night I was attending my daughters High School
basketball game, and near us was a parent who found it necessary to comment
loudly and negatively about the quality of the refereeing. While we could
have easily taken on the burden of ignoring this annoying person, I decided to
conduct an experiment, and I "closed space" on this person by reseating
myself right next to him. I never established eye contact, or spoke to
this person, I merely sat next to him. The result was very successful,
and the person's negative comments ceased.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>love and light,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Steve<o:p></o:p></p>
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