<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Christine, thank you for this message. After I pressed the send button, I worried that I had been too verbose (which I was) but I could not help gushing. Can't wait to meet you in Tucson. Suzanne<p>Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry</p><p><hr size=2 width=100% align=center tabindex=-1><b>From</b>: Christine Whitney Sanchez <cwhitneysanchez@gmail.com><br><b>Date</b>: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:34:36 -0700<br><b>To</b>: <OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU><br><b>Subject</b>: Re: Open Space Magic<br></font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2E008E">Suzanne, your passion and delight jump off the page! I can imagine your budding company in full bloom.</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2E008E"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2E008E">Using Open Space for your Partner Summit touches a practice that is close to my heart. It sounds as though you and your partners experienced what happens when we use these powerful tools, such as Open Space, World Cafe, Appreciative Inquiry, Digital StoryTelling, Future Search, Polarity Mapping..., to do our own work. When the methods themselves stop being the focus and the outcomes capture our attention, that is when we find ourselves in gratitude and awe. That's when we honor the magic! We have only begun to use these transformational methodologies as everyday collaborative tools.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2E008E"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2E008E">I love Open Space for many reasons. Number one on the list is that it works.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2E008E"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2E008E">I will look for you at the IONS conference. You'll find me close by Tenneson, Sharon and my husband, Reuben.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2E008E"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2E008E">Warm wishes from a cool Phoenix morning,</font></div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; 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: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Webdings; font-size: 32px; "><b><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: Arial; color: green; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; "><span><span><span><span><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Handwriting'"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89">Christine</font></i></font><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Christine Whitney Sanchez</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><i>Collaborative Wisdom & Strategy</i><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">480.759.0262 </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><a href="http://www.christinewhitneysanchez.com">www.christinewhitneysanchez.com</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Webdings; font-size: 32px; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Webdings; color: green; "></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89">Skype: christinewhitneysanchez</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/ChristineWhitneySanchez">http://www.facebook.com/ChristineWhitneySanchez</a></font></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Webdings; font-size: 32px; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Webdings; color: green; ">P</span><b><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: green; "> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: Arial; color: green; ">Please consider the environment before printing this email</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></font></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Jun 14, 2009, at 6:14 AM, Suzanne Daigle wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; 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: 0px; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">We lived the Open Space magic!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Exhausted, exhilarated, in awe and filled with gratitude…Wow! Wow! Wow!<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Our budding company, which is almost two years young, just completed its third Partner Summit. As a community of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><b>wholistic<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></i>partners joined by our associate marketing company colleagues and a handful of close business friends, we decided to give it our all , invest and immerse ourselves in a full-blown Open Space.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span> </span><span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">It was a time of transformation, of discovery, of intense reflection and emotions, of intimate sharing of dreams, fears and hopes all under the big tent of Open Space.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Diane Gibeault, who had trained about a third of us in Ottawa (English and French sessions), guided us through our two and a half days of emergence and convergence which culminated in a flurry of action-packed initiatives that we each feel so passionate about and so deeply committed to. There are no words to describe the magic of what happened there.<span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">There were many funny moments.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Like the night before we started when we discovered there was no electricity in our chosen Open Space venue. We knew the place was in construction and had seen the cement floors, exposed ceilings, bare white walls now adorned with the 4 Principles, Law of 2 feet, Market place, etc. Then there was the weather: dark and gloomy every day except for the final morning which meant that the natural light we had planned on from all those windows still kept us in the dark. We connected cables from the corridor to manage our newsroom equipment. It was all part of the chaos and confusion, of the birthing and letting go.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">In a frenzy of activity, we helped in the prep creating the posters, the forms, designing the invitations, creating a banner with the theme of "Inventing our future". We wanted to learn and experience EVERYTHING as participants so that one day, we would truly know what our clients would live and feel when they tasted their first Open Space.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I got the OS bug at an Art of Hosting event.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Trusted my gut and attended the Open Space training in Ottawa. Was then totally hooked after helping a friend facilitate her first Open Space. From there, it was Wave Rider at Sleeping Lady. Now next week, I’m taking the big leap by hosting my first Open Space at the Ions Noetic Science conference in Tucson on Harvest Day. I will be surrounded by many friends of Open Space and feel confident (though I will have butterflies in my stomach) that self organizing will work there too.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">After our own Open Space summit, I now know without a doubt that Open Space works.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>How could it not?<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>It’s all about self organizing and shared leadership, a living system and the laws of nature. Yes Harrison, you have been singing the tune for a long time. I get it!<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>We get it! And for us, what we want to do now is be Wave Riders by living Open Space from the inside out in our community of practice.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">So Diane Gibeault, Barbara Hebert, Sharon Joy Kleitsch, and my Sleeping Lady friends…, Larry, Anne, Roosevelt, Sherry, Anh, Colette, Elaine, Dan, Jun, Robert, Dale, Tenneson, Brian, Teresa, Ashely, Joan, Elena and so many others, thank you for inspiring me in Leavenworth. What a precious gift!<span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">If any of you are in Tucson for the IONS conference next week, come join us on Sunday afternoon June 21<sup>st</sup> <span></span>. The theme of this Open Space Harvest is <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u><b>Global Shift: Next steps</b></u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and if you come "<span></span>Be ready to be surprised!"</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Suzanne<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">941-359-8877</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">203-722-2009 (c)<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="mailto:s.daigle@nufocusgroup.com">s.daigle@nufocusgroup.com</a><br><a href="http://www.nufocusgroup.com">www.nufocusgroup.com</a></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>* * ==========================================================<a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:<a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</a></div></span></div><br></div></body></html>* * ========================================================== OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist