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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Nice!! I like the experiment! </span></font><font
color=black><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Sometimes, what people need is
someone to acknowledge them even if in silence.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Elisabeth<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>De:</span></font></b><font
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[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>En
nombre de </span></b>Steve Engle<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Enviado el:</span></b> jueves, 15 de enero de
2009 02:50 p.m.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Para:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Asunto:</span></b> [OSLIST] An Experiment in
Closing Space</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>love and light,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Steve<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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