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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>David<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Good question you’ve raised.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I echo what Lisa has said and add the
following:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Recommend
you to F. Capra’s book, “The Hidden Connections – a science
for sustainable living” which is a very readable invitation to shift
our thinking from competition to collaboration (using the ecological
paradigm). I have personally wrestled with this, and some of the
competition psych dynamics which Jack refers to. I am now finding that the
more I give away (including equipping and empowering other OS
facilitators), the more keeps coming in. Capra’s observation is that
what is good for the entire ecosystem is also good for the individual
components.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>if
you can link up (by which I mean face to face) with a few other OS
facilitators who share the above philosophy, then that can be very
mutually supportive. We have a great emerging network on that front in <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Western Australia</st1:place></st1:State>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Given
it seems you are willing to travel – try to get along to the next
World Open Space on Open Space (WOSONO) in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Attending
a training program in OS, particularly with someone who has attended a
WOSONOS, can be useful. This can offer more than learning the “technicalities”
– it can help deepen one’s own integration of the “spirit”
of Open Space (which is related, I think, to what <st1:place w:st="on">Harrison</st1:place>
said about how comfortable we feel about doing less and less!)<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In
terms of attending an OS with another experienced facilitator. Two
benefits: a) watching/experiencing/picking up the “vibe” of
how other people Open Space (for example, one of the best learnings I got
from the last WOSONOS was simply watching Lisa open the space) b) as in
point 4 above, learning what it feels like to do nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hope this helps<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Michael Wood<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Perth</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName> [mailto:<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Lisa Heft<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 5 May 2009 10:59 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Begining in OS</span></font><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>...and that's how we are all delightfully different.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Jack, I honor how you feel and see things.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>And yet I do see them differently.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I see abundance instead
of competition. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I see inviting others to
help me in events that I facilitate as an opportunity for wonderful help,
greater service to the client and a colleague who is rich with observations and
insights.<br>
Plus the extra added value of helping a colleague grow into the field and gain
more experience. And I see it as my 'pay it forward' for having received
such rich learning and opportunities from my diversely experienced colleagues.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I see their putting these
jobs on their resumes (for example, 'Newsroom Coordinator' as an essential role
assisting an organization in utilizing their own documentation for their
continued growth and learning) as a real job with real responsibility required,
whether or not they were paid or pro bono consultants on that job.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I ask all clients if I
can bring someone along to assist and ask them if they have funding for this.
Often they do. If not, I try to find funding from my own resources. If I do not
have resources it is often seen as an unpaid collaboration for the benefit of
learning.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I find that offering learning opportunities for colleagues helps
strengthen our work and our field.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I invite some of you on this list to share with us your experiences of
being invited to help on Open Space events as you were / have been emerging
into this field and this practice.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I invite others of you to share your experiences of bringing a newly
emerging facilitator into a job of yours.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Tell us the (mutual) benefits and the learning - even your stories of
when it has not been a good idea for the client, participants, or for you.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I think we have a learning opportunity here. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thanks to David and Jack for tickling these thoughts in my head and
opening up the learning opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I look forward to hearing others' thoughts on this.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>A warm hello from a gray <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:City>
<st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place> morning,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Lisa<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=2 color=blue
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>Lisa Heft</span></font></b></span><font size=1
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Consultant,
Facilitator, Educator<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=1 color=blue
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:blue;font-weight:bold'>Opening Space</span></font></b></span><font
size=1 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><a
href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net">lisaheft@openingspace.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><a
href="http://www.openingspace.net">www.openingspace.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'></span></span> Jack Martin Leith
wrote:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>What the client is really paying for is the
consulting work and the design and organisation of the event. Facilitating
the event is the easy bit that happens at the end. So to
get maximum value from working with an experienced practitioner
you'd really need to be involved in the entire project.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>How do I explain your presence to the client?<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>What would your role be on the day, aside from
helping get the space ready? Once the agenda is created and the sessions
are up and running, there's very little for the facilitator to do.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I'll probably get shot down in flames for saying
this, but what the hell: Here in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>, OS consulting
is a crowded marketplace. Do I really want
to help make it even more crowded?<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I mentioned that last point because I suspect that
the "training a new competitor" issue is often there, if
unconscious, when an OS consultant is asked "Can I be an
extra pair of hands?" and it's best that you're aware of it. Although the
Open Space community is very supportive, and I do whatever I can to share
knowledge and help others, the reality is that we're operating in a very
competitive environment. I've competed with friends and collaborators for OS
work on several occasions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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