<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva" size="6"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva" size="6"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="6"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva" size="6"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva" size="6"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 19px; ">STORIES, Newsletter of the Open Space Institute (US),</span></p></font></font></b></font><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria; ">Summer, 2009</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 900;"><a href="http://openspaceworld.org/cgi/netwiki.cgi?NewLetter0907">http://openspaceworld.org/cgi/netwiki.cgi?NewLetter0907</a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 900; ">Purpose:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The purpose of the newsletter is to make our stories available to each other so that we continue to learn and grow. We hope they will serve you for education, examples, connection and pleasure.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">This newsletter is intended for the use of friends and members of the Open Space Institute (US). It may be reproduced in any useful way with acknowledgment. When copying, please include the author/contact/ publication information at the end of each story.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b>In This Issue:</b></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">1—Notes from the Editor</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">2—The Green Forum</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">3—At the Center of the Journey</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">4—Virtual Global Communication</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">5—Inviting leadership</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">6—Coming Events</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">7—Footprints in the Wind: I have no call to be reasonable<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800; "> </span></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Notes from the Editor:</span></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Spring has turned to summer in the northern hemisphere, and Peggy Holman and I are celebrating by bringing back STORIES, after a long hiatus. We invite you to share your stories, adventures and misadventures in Open Space.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Here in the northwest corner of the United States, we had a long, cold and stormy winter, followed by a long, cold and stormy spring. One of the local passes, closed for winter, was unable to open on the appointed date because they had six inches of fresh snow the night before—in mid-May.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Since then, the weather has warmed, and we are taking our sun-starved bodies outside to walk, garden, sit in the park—anything to soak up sunshine.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Thanks to the couple who built our house and planted gardens, back in the early 60s, our yard is filled with azaleas and rhododendrons, masses of coral, yellow, pink, red and white flowers. I love the intense colors and blossom-scented air, and bless them for their vision and hard work. </span></span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">What seeds are you planting today, to grow and bloom in the future?</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">With appreciation,</span></span></font></span></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Joelle Everett, consultant, coach, poet, and editor of this newsletter.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><a href="mailto:jleshelton@aol.com"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">jleshelton@aol.com</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; ">==============</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria; ">THE GREEN FORUM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria; ">Mobilizing Community Action for a<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><h3 align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">More Sustainable Future in Just Three Hours<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">By Jay W. Vogt</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoHeader"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The Green Technology Committee is a group of community volunteers chartered in 2006 by the Selectmen of the rural town of Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA, to reduce energy consumption in town facilities. As the committee reflected on its charge, members realized that their success depended on gaining the support of the entire town.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoHeader"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">A couple members approached me about facilitating a Green Forum for Lincoln. The committee wanted folks to come, learn things, get inspired, and take action. They had no idea how to make that happen, and asked me what I thought.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoHeader"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Now Lincoln is the quintessential Yankee New England town, complete with a central town green and a white-steepled church, surrounded by grassy meadows and forested hills. New Englanders generally don’t like it when others tell them what to do. Yet they are the first to help others if it serves their self-interest. We New Englanders jokingly call this “Yankee communism.” I sensed that the residents of this town would love Open Space, where no one sets the agenda for others, and nothing happens unless people choose to make it happen. So I proposed a forum in Open Space, and after some initial shock and worry, the committee accepted.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoHeader"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We had three hours to gather on a Sunday afternoon. The whole town (population 5000) would be invited. An old town building with a great open hall on the second floor and some meeting rooms on the first was available. The theme would be: “What are the issues and opportunities in creating a greener Lincoln?” There would be no presentations, only a large resource display on tables around the hall. Participants would be invited to step forward, state their issue, claim a space, and convene a discussion. There would be a gathering time to welcome participants and create the agenda (thirty minutes), a single discussion round (ninety minutes), and a final closing circle (thirty minutes).</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoHeader"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">In talking about the theme with the committee, many members shared stories of things they or their neighbors were doing to make their lives greener. One person had organized some neighbors to buy and plant cherry trees together. Another was experimenting with drought-resistant grasses. Another was researching the most effective energy audits. Another had just bought a share in the produce of a local, organic farm. Yet another had recently renovated their home to be heated and cooled with geothermal energy. I loved hearing about these private, passionate acts.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoHeader"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Although Open Space is perfect as it is, I was moved to find some way to consciously collect and share these stories with the community, so that innovative residents could be publicly affirmed for their creativity, while inspiring others, and reminding everyone of their power to make a difference.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoHeader"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I proposed that, after the welcome, we start with thirty minutes of what I called “Green Ads.” Committee members would invite participants as they arrived to sign up and share a sixty second “Green Ad” - about some action they were taking, or some resource that they valued, related to sustainability - with the rest of the community. Once again the committee welcomed this approach, and with growing excitement about the upcoming Forum, set about marketing it with enthusiasm.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoHeader"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Finally the Green Forum Sunday came, on a lovely spring afternoon, and about 130 people – from preteens to seniors - arrived at the hall. They munched on healthy snacks and drank unbottled local water as they gathered. Thirty people signed up to share a sixty second “Green Ad,” which started the Forum with homespun wisdom and humor. About ten residents stepped forward to convene discussions, on topics as diverse as improving community transportation, increasing use of school buses and electric cars, expanding community supported agriculture, helping residents understand the value and importance of native vegetation, financing solar technology, and making buildings more energy efficient.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoHeader"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The Green Technology Committee reported, in the March-April 2009 issue of </span></span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The Lincoln Review</span></span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">, that: “In just three hours, Jay helped us all to gather our energies and interests, connect personal values and visions with collective needs, and make some concrete forward plans. With more than 2% of Lincoln residents present, this establishes a firm footing for a town-wide commitment. Our hope was that attendees would ‘Leave the event energized with valuable, practical information, an action plan, new resources and support of like-minded people.’ And it looks like they did!”</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoHeader"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Cities and towns around the world are looking to mobilize the talent, knowledge, and motivation of their residents to make their communities greener and more sustainable. Lincoln’s example shows that, with Open Space, and as little as three hours, a community can come together and discover its strengths and passions for more sustainable living.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoHeader"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Jay W. Vogt is a consultant, facilitator, and author of </span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Recharge Your Team: The Grounded Visioning Approach</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoHeader"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><a href="mailto:jay@peoplesworth.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">jay@peoplesworth.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoHeader"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; ">==============</span></p><h1 align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria; ">AT THE CENTER OF THE JOURNEY</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria; font-weight: normal; "><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">by Tom Atlee</span></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The facilitator has no agenda</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">except the emergent agenda seeking to be born</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">in, among and through the people gathered before her.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Her emptiness is not nothing, though.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">It is an invitation and a reflection.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Wherever she moves, radiating welcome,</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">things take shape, evolve, transform, move on.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">She is delighted, fascinated, and as impartial as the sun.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">She offers comradeship on a journey into an open space</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">where co-creativity finds its home and voice.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The greater her skill, the less she does,</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">but the more profound the life she meets</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">because life loves, above all things, to find itself</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">and it always comes to where it can meet,</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> embrace, and discover Greater Life,</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">which it finds in the universal center where she stands.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"Under the best of circumstances," writes Harrison Owen,</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"the facilitator will be totally present</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> and absolutely invisible."</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Like God. Like the Tao. Like the Center of the Universe.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Everywhere -- especially Here.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">© Tom Atlee</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Tom Atlee is founder, co-director, and research director of the non-profit Co-Intelligence Institute.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><a href="mailto:cii@igc.org"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">cii@igc.org</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; ">==============</span></p><h3 align="left" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">VIRTUAL GLOBAL COLLABORATION –<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria; ">It’s not just possible, it’s happening<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">by Lucy Garrick</span></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">An opportunity to contribute to positive social change gave me a new appreciation for Open Space Technology. Our access to technology and is making possible ways of connecting that were never before possible -crossing community, geographic and organizational boundaries. </span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">On Saturday, May 9</span></span></font><sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span></font></sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">, Approximately 54 people from around the world logged into Skype Chat to hold the opening session of a global collaboration for positive change using Open Space principles.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The Conference, Real-time Virtual Collaboration (RTVC) convened participants around the question:</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">“</span></span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">What Tools and Principles Do We Need To Help Change Unfold?</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Social and Technological Developments Mean</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Better Organizations and a Better World”</span></span></font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The conference was the brainchild of Holger Nauheimer, creator of the </span></span></font><a href="http://www.change-management-toolbook.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Change Management Toolbook</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">. It was the simplest of acts, Holger put out the invitation and RTVC was born. </span></span></font></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The concept of the world’s first Real-time Virtual Collaboration Conference was to learn what is possible when integrating simple facilitative change tools such as Open Space Technology with online synchronous communication tools, such as voice over internet protocol (VOIP), wikis, chats, collaborative work tools and social media. Participants organized before, during and after the conference through a Mind Map portal created especially for the event. Links in the mind map led people to conference registration, pre-session preparations, areas to post sessions, and help.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 22.5pt; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><img border="0" width="383" height="141" alt="AppleMark" v:shapes="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:470301E9-53BC-494D-A7F8-BCB45081C8DA@hsd1.wa.comcast.net."></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The four-hour conference was the collaborative design of a self-organizing group of consultants, facilitators and technologists who met online and reside in six countries: Germany, S.Africa, Brazil, United Kingdom, USA, and Canada – most have not yet met face-to-face. In addition to Holger, the RTVC steering team consists of </span></span></font><a href="http://sustainableteams.org/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Stephan Dohrn</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">, (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), </span></span></font><a href="http://www.northshoregroup.net/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Lucy Garrick</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (Seattle, USA), </span></span></font><a href="http://www.roser-gaertner.com/en/index.php"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Hans Gaertner</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (Bremen, Germany), </span></span></font><a href="http://www.strat-insight.com/index.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Suresh Fernando</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (Vancouver, Canada), </span></span></font><a href="http://www.turnupthecourage.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Sofia Bustamante</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">, (London, UK).</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We chose Open Space because of its simplicity and flexibility which empowered conference participants to define their own session topics. Participants attended from around the globe, representing 30 different countries. Online postings of topics for break-out sessions was supported by a discussion board and the RTVC steering team. Break-out sessions were held on a variety of social media chosen by session conveners. Imagine a sort of virtual, conference hotel.
Over 50 participants from around the globe signed on to the opening session using Skype Chat.
Opening and closing sessions were facilitated by members of the RTVC steering team.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">During the Closing session, held on a Skype Chat, I asked participants for one word reactions to the conference and here’s what they had to say:</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">thrilling
technically challenging just starting</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">excitement
engaging difficult connections</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">multilevel
falling off the cliff interesting
</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">smooth
bacterial complex</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">encouraging crossing boundaries What's next?
</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">engaging
calls for more exhilarating</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">conversations
surfing germinal</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">learning disruptive possibility</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">like riding a roller coaster</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">What did we learn?</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Well for one thing, it works! Humans really are self-organizing systems even in cyber space. And our team was synergistic. Someone always had the skill and commitment that was called for. We believe that this is the wave of the future and that nothing could be a more open space than this. We’re planning to do more. You’ll find a full report of all facts, stats, break-out topics, and key learnings posted in a new </span></span></font><a href="http://www.mindmeister.com/20991099"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">RTVC Mind Map</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">. At this writing it has been viewed 811 times. </span></span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Note files of country representation charts and </span></span></font></i></span><i><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">other transcripts are attached to the mind map.</span></span></font></span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">To learn more and follow RTVC developments:</span></span></font></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> Visit the </span></span></font><a href="http://www.change-management-toolbook.com/course/view.php?id=115"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">RTVC Forum</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> currently housed on the Change Management Toolbook website at </span></span></font><a href="http://www.change-management-toolbook.com/course/view.php?id=115"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">http://www.change-management-toolbook.com/course/view.php?id=115</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Lucy Garrick is an organization and leadership consultant and coach.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><a href="mailto:lgarrick@northshoregroup.net"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">lgarrick@northshoregroup.net</span></span></font></a><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; ">==============</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Cambria; color: black; ">inviting leadership<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria; color: black; ">by Michael Herman</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> relax. right now. </span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (rest into heart)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> pause long enough. to. sink. in.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> passion and purpose open space.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> take the time to notice. and breathe.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> settle. straighten. sort and sigh.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> yawn. laugh. love. rest.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> re...awaken wonder.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> invite others into that.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (welcome everyone)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> ring the bells, bring the question.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> host the meeting, pour the tea.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> open the conversation.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> imagine, invoke and invite</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> the common good.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> wish it out loud.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> let everything move.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (support relationship) </span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> through knowing and not, forests and trees,</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> learning and contribution, mine and yours – to us.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> inviting is action, and support without effort.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> leadership yields without loss, or collapse.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> doing nothing touches everything, gently</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> ease into flow.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> make inviting ordinary.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (refine into practice)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> execute the obvious; embrace all the rest.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> ground visions. craft agreements. take next steps.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> grow more of what works. harvest gratitude and joy.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> as the fruits of practice ripen, share the juice.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> today's news seeds tomorrow's invitations,</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> inviting more leaders (to open heart...)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Distilled from InvitingLeadership/FourPracticesStory and then extended as InvitingLeadership/Retreat, see </span></span></font><a href="michaelherman.com"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">michaelherman.com</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "></span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Michael Herman practices, teaches and writes about inviting leadership.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><a href="mailto:michael@michaelherman.com"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">michael@michaelherman.com</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><span> </span>==============<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria; ">WHAT DO WE KNOW NOW ABOUT LEADERSHIP<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><span> </span>IN A SELF-ORGANIZING WORLD?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><h1 align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">By Tenneson Woolf</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></font></span></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Last month I was in Leavenworth, WA for a learning conference, Leadership in a Self-Organizing World. </span></span></font><a href="http://www.berkana.org/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Berkana </span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">was co-sponsor -- another event to support the needed exploring and forms for these times. The place was beautiful. Gigantic pines. Icicle River running alongside the conference space and at the feet of Sleeping Lady, the mountain after which the conference center is named. A </span></span></font></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><a href="http://vimeo.com/4700544"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">harvest video</span></span></font></a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> by Thomas Arthur and Ashley Cooper is here, including some beautiful shots of the land. Amazing people there. I particularly found it helpful to be with some old friends and feel the sense of meeting each other even more deeply -- the times are calling us to be in our deepest relations and creations together.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">“What do we know now about leadership in a self-organizing world?” was a question that Berkana colleague, Teresa Posakony and I carried deliberately at the learning conference (see also </span></span></font><a href="http://tennesonwoolf.blogspot.com/2009/05/may-19-2009-last-week-i-was-in.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">previous blog post</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> on this event).</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Below are three levels of harvest from this question:</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">1. Teresa hosted a circle in open space on the third day. (See </span></span></font><a href="http://tennesonwoolf.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-do-you-know-now-about-leadership.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">photos</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">) The notes below are in response to a check-out circle on "How do we talk about this?"</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Saturday, 3:00 (Teresa, Tenneson, Gabriel, Diana, Henri, Jim, Shiloh, Ashley, Roosey, Tom, Diana, Christy and more………. - Tell real stories of amazing stuff that we wouldn’t have expected - Be in the practice of listening, hearing, and symbolizing - Assume that everything we need to know is right here - Name it as participant organized – they own the responsibility and can point to “somebody did it” - Relationship between hearing the story and self-organizing change - Clear intention, purpose context…people can self-organize to create - Experience it - Ask powerful questions - How would you like to access the true potential of your organization - Focus on the work we have to do, the real need and purpose. Then be thoughtful and choiceful about how to get about it. - Reflection of nature & Body…words and images - Follow the energy of yes! - Use vocabulary to understand and engage - Be in the life energy – how to serve the larger whole. - Cultivate genuine curiosity and authentic response - Welcome people home…to the best of what we know and in connection with what is alive already.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">2. The last convergence exercise we did on the fourth and last day was with the full group. The intention was to see another glimpse of what was important in the group. Innovative process hosted by Peggy Holman. Each of us wrote the one principle we thought was most important for leaders in a self-organizing world. The cards included everything from simple principles to larger sets of ideas. We exchanged cards randomly with other participants and then stopped to rank points between two cards. Then random exchange. Then ranking. We did this through five cycles and totalled the points. The top responses are here:</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">1. One never knows the power of an idea/vision until shared with others who have similar passions. (27)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">2T. We are the ones we've been waiting for. "Leaders" are not self ordained. They are recognized by their contributions and response to a calling from deep within to commit their life to contributing to the greater good. (26)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">2T. Clarity I now have: *So many labels! * To participate in a Self Organizing World means truly owning up to allowing each person (including myself) freedom to express their passions about the subject * to be fully present and mindful within myself and within the group. (26)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">4. Be yourself. (25)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">5. In a Self Organizing World: I bring my whole self my dream passion each moment presence, and allow others the same grace. (24)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">6. Provides a space where each person can speak her/his truth and offer his/her gifts. (23.5)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">7T. Leadership in a self-organizing world - means…We all lead and we know when it is our time to lead by listening to our body and spirit - when it calls out our gift. (22)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">7T. Creating contexts that help life-energy find itself, manifest, serve itself, and evolve - at all levels including self, group, community, social system, and planet - with decreasing violence, toxicity, and waste. (22)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">9T. You must be a vital self-organizing system in order to lead, serve, and host the ever unfurling nature of a self-organizing world. In this breathing, beating, crumbling, and constellating living world - we love and lead into dynamic tension of living and dying - sending and receiving - leading from in front or behind. True leadership is authentically living expressing just that. (21)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">9T. The power of connection to nature remaining in its stillness so that all that needs to show up shows up, with flow of a river. (21)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">9T. Open Space is a way that nature organizes itself. I also see that the container is the "how" of the system. It would take longer time periods to deal with certain grievances at a more root level than others. Truly what is needed for humanity currently is "root" responses to personal and collective trauma. (21)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">9T. My insight: Hierarchies arise, serve, disolve, reorganize. Leaders can relax and allow their role to present itself - be free of the burden of the acknowledged leader role. It takes an integrated "anima" to be a effective leader in a self-organizing world. (21)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">9T. LSOW is allowing and nurturing passion. (21)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">9T. Convene in curiosity to remember and create together choices. Trust first next steps. (21)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">3. I asked about a dozen people (thanks to each of them) the same questions on the 3rd and 4th days with this context. Assume the world is self-organizing. Assume there is such a thing as leadership. Knowing that these are both meaningful conversations that invite more attention, what you would you name as the most important principle for a leader to be effective in a self-organizing world? Those responses are below.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- stay open -- don't get stuck in a time suck</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- keep dropping seeds -- don't get freaked out about what you can't do</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- remember you already are leading in a self-organizing world</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- be bold, listen, and do</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- fully manifest and make room for others to fully manifest too</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- give people a place to tell their story (until the sun comes up and it is a new day)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- practice letting go and welcoming a discerning stance</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- be deliberate in witnessing what is happening, sometimes not through voice</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- create a safe place in the transition (grief work is birth work)</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- put a ball into play and then be a participant</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- pay attention to the field</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- speak a best guess of what is arising</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- be bold, and then surrender</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- be grounded</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- work with the spirit of invitation</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- name the question clearly</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- be a steward of shared intention</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- tend to the social fabric of community</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- tune in / center</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- welcome and invite diverse voice</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- welcome disruption as gifts</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- give shared attention to task, process, and relationships</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">- reenlist in the love affair with tension</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">What do we know now about leadership in a self-organizing world? One thing for me is that the question is a rich inquiry and on-going practice. Self-organization is the pattern that, as Harrison Owen names, has been going on for 14 billion years. Our work from this reality, our learning together, and our strengthened relationships are critical and called for in these times. And are beautiful and inspiring, much like those gigantic pines growing round the Icicle River in Washington.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Tenneson Woolf consults, coaches, builds community and writes about the Art of Hosting</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><a href="mailto:tenneson@berkana.org"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">tenneson@berkana.org</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">; </span></span></font><a href="http://www.tennesonwoolf.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">www.tennesonwoolf.com</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><span> </span>==============<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; "> </span></span></p><h2><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">Coming Events:</span></h2><h4><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">The 17th Annual World </span></font><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/news/open-space-on-open-space/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">OSonOS</span></font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span></span></h4><h4><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">This Open Space on Open Space is for practitioners, organizations, and colleagues who use Open Space Technology - is in Taipei, Taiwan, 15-17 Oct 2009. For details, visit: </span></font></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://www.frontier.org.tw/2009wosonos/index.html">http://www.frontier.org.tw/2009wosonos/index.html</a></span></font></span></h4><h4><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Leadership in a Self-organizing World</span></font></span></h4><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">November 11-14 in Toronto, this conversation is inspired by Harrison Owen’s recent book: Waverider: Leadership for High Performance in a Self-organizing World. For more information, contact Larry Peterson, </span></span></font><a href="mailto:larry@spiritedorg.com"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">larry@spiritedorg.com</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Open Space Technology Training</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">For a list of training workshops around the world, visit </span></span></font><a href="http://openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?FacilitatorTraining"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">http://openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?FacilitatorTraining</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></o:p></span></p><h4><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; ">==============</span></h4><h5 align="left" style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; ">FOOTPRINTS IN THE WIND # 950<o:p></o:p></span></h5><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Cambria; color: black; ">By Doug Germann</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> I have no call to be reasonable. My call is to the spirit, to the experience of life that precedes cognition and separation from life and others. My call is to engage people in the life of divinity which exists fully between and among people.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">My call is “urgently out beyond the ordinary and the reasonable,” to use Brueggemann's phrase. These have gotten us where we are, which is ordinary and reasonable, but we need to go to a new place. The place we are is full of pain.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">What pain? The pain of being unemployed or underemployed. The pain of being not heard. The pain of being invisible.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">What new place? You have the power to make the world better, to turn the world just a bit toward kindness and connecting and moving.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> Please pass it on. </span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> :-Doug.</span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> By Douglas D. Germann, Sr. © 2009, Learning Works, Inc.</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Doug Germann leads conversations that make a difference, and writes </span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Footprints in the Wind</span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">, </span></span></font></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><a href="http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com</span></span></font></a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><a href="mailto:76066.515@compuserve.com"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">76066.515@compuserve.com</span></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "></span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></span></p><div style="margin-top: 6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><h4><span style="font-family: Cambria; color: black; ">==============</span></h4></b></font></font></font></font></b></font><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>__________________________<br>Peggy Holman<br>Open Space Institute (US)<br>15347 SE 49th Place<br>Bellevue, Wa 98006<br>(425) 746-6274<br><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org">www.openspaceworld.org</a><br> <br>To subscribe to the open space listserv, visit<br><a href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</a> <br> <br>For Open Space products, visit<br><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/wiki/wiki/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceBooksAndVideos">www.openspaceworld.org/wiki/wiki/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceBooksAndVideos</a> <br> <br>To donate to the OSI-US, visit<br><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/donate">www.openspaceworld.org/donate</a></div></div><div><div> </div></div></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></div><br></div></div><br></body></html>*
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