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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I take most of the points Artur raises in
his email.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I wouldn’t be too mutually exclusive about
OST and Appreciative Inquiry. I do think they can be (and have experienced)
them being complementary. People interviewing each other in pairs and in small
groups about their appreciative experiences can be a great way of building
trust; revealing corporate mythology (by listening for recurring themes); and
might actually help shape up, collectively, the really key question for Open
Space (rather than assuming that people ‘at the top’ know what this question
should be). In this way, the group is empowered rather than dispempowered I
think. Of course, much of the time AI is completely unnecessary – people are
already on the edge of their seat and ready to go.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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useful warm up.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName> [mailto:<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Artur Silva<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 30 July 2009 5:22
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> What I love most about
OST (was Re: [<st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>] Origins of
"one less thing" and "letting go"</span></font><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>It is interesting, but the thing that I most love
about OST has much to do with "one less thing"...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>OST is, as far as I know, the only methodology
where the facilitator has to create a certain number of previous requisites,
do a concise opening, and then let the people do their own work. This assumes
that one believes in the people in the room to do the job and gives
them all the power to self-organize. And it works every time!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>When I compare OST with all the other
"facilitation" methodologies that I have studied, what
most impresses me is that in all the others the facilitator (or a lot of
facilitators) has (have) the central role. He/she/them is everywhere, doing
all the sorts of things, (unconsciously) letting people to “understand” that
without him/her/them (the facilitator(s) they would not be able to do the
job.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>That is also the reason I have difficulty in
understanding how the some people that facilitate OST, can also facilitate
more formal/control_oriented methodologies. Ora why must we add other
things (like a “warming up” up or AI session at the beginning) to something
that is already perfect. Add one more thing only disempowers people. Discover
one more thing not to do - that is the real job of the facilitator
preparation!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>And, of course, all this has everything to do with
Taoism and very little to do with normal western thinking that is our
biggest enemy when trying to facilitate OST - to forget and bypass
the paradigm in what we have been educated, I mean, <span style='mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin'></span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>indoctrinated</span></span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.
We must also let go of that!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>PS: In what concerns your PS, <st1:place w:st="on">Harrison</st1:place>,
"no comments!"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> --- On <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Wed,
7/29/09, Harrison Owen <i><span style='font-style:italic'><hhowen@verizon.net></span></i></span></b>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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From: Harrison Owen <hhowen@verizon.net><br>
Subject: Re: [<st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>] Origins of
"one less thing" and "letting go"<br>
To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 11:34 AM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>I love it! “Thinking of one less thing to do” is a throw-away I
have used for years. I’ve called it the “design principle for OST.” If it turns
out to be Taoist that will be superb. Some kind of channeling, I would guess.
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w:st="on"><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>PS – Artur I also wrote the Wiki article, now several times
revised by whomsoever. More channeling?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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